PSG V Liverpool Preview: Stats, Insights & Our Selection

Neymar and Mbappe have been declared fit to play as PSG prepare to face Liverpool in Wednesday’s Champions League fixture.

The PSG superstars were injured on international duty and missed Saturday’s 1-0 league victory over Toulouse but will take the field in what looks like the game of the round.

Reds manager, Jurgen Klopp, said Liverpool players do not fear facing Neymar or Kylian Mbappe because they have “probably watched 500,000 YouTube videos” on the pair.

“It is much more difficult to prepare a game when my players don’t know an opponent,” said Klopp.

“We give them videos but this generation probably watch 500,000 YouTube videos of Mbappe, Neymar and (Edinson) Cavani and they know about their individual strengths more than I do.

“But they can only shine with the ball so that means we have to defend them.”

Liverpool have had their own player concerns for the matchup with Mane and Gomez under doubt earlier this week.

Mane had been ill but trained with the squad at Melwood on Tuesday morning, as did Gomez who has shaken off a minor ankle problem which kept him out of the weekend win over Watford.

Both teams have everything to play for when they meet at the Parc des Princes in Wednesday’s crucial Champions League clash.

With just five points to their name after five Group C matches, Les Parisiens face early elimination should they lose and Napoli beat Red Star Belgrade in the other game.

Team News

Elsewhere for Liverpool, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Adam Lallana, Dominic Solanke and Nathaniel Clyne are still absent but manager Jurgen Klopp has called up Rafael Camacho from the U23 squad.

Dani Alves and Layvin Kurzawa were both part of the PSG squad for the first league match this season at the weekend and could feature on Wednesday.

The Stats

• The home side have won all three meetings in all competitions between PSG and Liverpool, with the French side winning 3-0 in the only previous match played in Paris (3-0 in 1996-97 Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final)
• PSG are unbeaten in their last 20 home group-stage games in the Champions League, winning 15 and drawing five, since losing 3-1 to CSKA Moscow in December 2004
• PSG’s tally of five points is their second lowest after four Champions League group-stage games in its current format (4 in 2004-05)
• Liverpool have lost both of their away games so far in the Champions League this season – they’ve never lost all three away group games in the competition
• Liverpool have lost their last three Champions League away games – they’ve never lost four in a row in the European Cup/Champions League before
• Neymar has been directly involved in 13 goals in his 11 Champions League appearances for the French side, scoring nine and providing four assists
• Kylian Mbappe has been directly involved in 11 goals in his last 10 Champions League group stage games, scoring six goals and providing five assists

Odds Comparison 

Our Tip

PSG 3-2