PSG vs Girona | UEFA Champions League | League Stage | Pre Match
PSG vs Girona
INSIGHTS
Pre Match
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Girona will be PSG’s 44th different UEFA Champions League opponent. PSG have won their first game against six of their last seven new opponents but did lose 4-1 to Newcastle last season.
2
Only one of the last 28 teams travelling away to Paris SG for the first time in the UEFA Champions League have come away with a victory, with Man Utd winning 3-1 in March 2019 (D8 L19).
3
This will be Girona’s first game in the UEFA Champions League. The last Spanish side to debut in the competition was Málaga back in the 2012-13 campaign, while each of the last three debuting Spanish sides have gone on to make the knockout stages (Villarreal in 2005-06, Sevilla in 2007-08 and Málaga in 2012-13).
4
Since the start of the 2012-13 season, Paris SG have only lost one of their 36 home games in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League (W28 D7) – 1-2 v Manchester United in October 2020.
5
Paris SG scored 10 goals in the opening 15 minutes of the second half in the UEFA Champions League last season; the most of any team in this period. Indeed, more than half of their goals in the competition last term were scored during the first 15 minutes of the second half (10/19).
