UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 4-1) Parc des Princes - Paris Wednesday 10 March 2021 Paris Saint-Germain 21.00CET (21.00 local time) FC Barcelona Round of 16, Second leg Last updated 08/03/2021 23:47CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Match background 2 Legend 7 1 Paris Saint-Germain - FC Barcelona Wednesday 10 March 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Parc des Princes, Paris Match background Paris Saint-Germain hold a three-goal cushion thanks to Kylian Mbappé's stunning hat-trick at the Camp Nou as Barcelona come to the Parc des Princes for the second leg of this UEFA Champions League round of 16 tie. • Although Barcelona produced a famous fightback against Paris at this stage in 2016/17, that second leg took place at their home stadium, where Lionel Messi's 27th-minute penalty opened the scoring in the first leg of this tie. Mbappé quickly levelled, however, and struck twice more in the second half either side of a Moise Kean goal to make the final score 4-1 and become the first visiting player to score three times in a UEFA Champions League match at the Camp Nou since Andriy Shevchenko for Dynamo Kyiv in 1997. • While a hat-trick from Neymar – who inspired Barcelona's record-breaking comeback against Paris four years ago – on Matchday 6 this season helped secure the French club's place in the round of 16 as Group H winners, Barcelona had to settle for second position in Group G after closing their campaign with a heavy home defeat against Juventus to end their long unbeaten run at the Camp Nou in the UEFA Champions League. • Those losses to Juventus and now Paris mean Barcelona have suffered successive home European defeats in the same season for the first time. • Since the group stage concluded Paris have replaced Thomas Tuchel with Mauricio Pochettino, who knows the city of Barcelona well as both player and coach. Previous meetings • Barcelona and Paris's last tie, in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League round of 16, proved one for the ages. The French side looked to be easing through after a 4-0 first-leg win at the Parc des Princes, Ángel Di María scoring twice and Julian Draxler once, only for Barcelona to run out 6-1 winners at the Camp Nou with Neymar scoring twice. A Layvin Kurzawa own goal and Messi's penalty also helped the Spanish side turn round the tie, Sergi Roberto scoring the decisive goal five minutes into added time. • Paris and Barcelona faced each other four times in 2014/15. In the group stage, Paris recorded a 3-2 home victory with Marco Verratti on target; Messi and Neymar found the net for Barcelona. When the teams met again on Matchday 6, the Catalan club secured top spot in Group F with a 3-1 home win, recovering from Zlatan Ibrahimović's opener thanks to Messi, Neymar and Luis Suárez. • Neymar scored three goals in Barça's 5-1 aggregate win against Paris in that season's quarter-finals, one in a 3-1 first-leg win at the Parc des Princes and both in a 2-0 home victory at the Camp Nou. • In the 2012/13 quarter-finals Barcelona beat Paris on away goals after two draws – 2-2 at Parc des Princes, 1-1 at the Camp Nou. Messi was on target in the first leg in Paris. • The sides' first UEFA Champions League meeting came in the 1994/95 quarter-finals, Paris prevailing 3-2 on aggregate. A 1-1 draw in Spain was followed by a 2-1 home victory at the Parc des Princes, Raí and Vincent Guérin scoring in the last 18 minutes. • Barça have won four of the last six fixtures between the clubs, although Paris have scored four goals to win the other two games in that sequence; before that the Spanish side had triumphed in just one of six games, with three drawn. That success came in the 1997 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final, Ronaldo getting the only goal in Rotterdam. Form guide Paris • Paris have won five of their seven games in this season's competition, including the last four, the success in Barcelona following victories at home against Leipzig (1-0) and away at Manchester United (3-1) before they booked their round of 16 place with a 5-1 home win against İstanbul Başakşehir on Matchday 6 that also secured first place in Group H. They also beat the Turkish club 2-0 away on Matchday 2, in between 2-1 defeats at home to United and away to Leipzig. • Ligue 1 champions for the seventh time in eight years in 2019/20, and ninth time overall, Paris also won both domestic cups last season. This is the French side's ninth successive UEFA Champions League campaign and 13th in total. • Paris reached their first European Cup final last season, only to lose 1-0 to Bayern in Lisbon. They had beaten Borussia Dortmund in the round of 16 (1-2 a, 2-0 h), Atalanta in the one-off quarter-final (2-1) and Leipzig (3-0) in the semi-final en route to the decider. • The Parisians have now reached the knockout stages on their last nine UEFA Champions League appearances, although 2019/20 marked their first semi-final appearance since 1995. They suffered three successive last-16 defeats prior to last season. 2 Paris Saint-Germain - FC Barcelona Wednesday 10 March 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Parc des Princes, Paris • Under Tuchel, the French club finished first in a section also including Real Madrid, Club Brugge and Galatasaray in 2019/20. They won five of their six games, drawing the other, and conceded only two goals to finish five points above Madrid. • Paris had scored in 34 successive UEFA Champions League games, matching the competition record set by Madrid between 2011 and 2014, before drawing a blank in last season's final. They have found the net in all seven matches this term and also in their last 22 UEFA Champions League matches at the Parc des Princes. • Paris have won 17 of their last 25 UEFA Champions League matches (D3 L5). The Matchday 1 defeat by United was one of only four in their last 58 European home games (W38 D16). • Paris's round of 16 record is W5 L3; last season's comeback win against Dortmund ended a run of three consecutive round of 16 eliminations that began with that 2016/17 tie against Barça. • The first leg of this tie was only Paris's third win in their last 12 matches against Spanish clubs, home and away (D2 L7). • Paris have lost two of their last five games against Liga clubs at the Parc des Princes, where their overall record against Spanish visitors reads W8 D5 L3. • The French club's record in two-legged ties against Spanish sides is W5 L4. Those four defeats have come in the four most recent contests, three against Barcelona and, most recently, against Real Madrid in the 2017/18 round of 16 (1-3 a, 1-2 h). • Paris have not beaten a Liga club in a knockout tie since eliminating Valencia 3-2 on aggregate at this stage of the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League; the 4-0 first-leg win against Barcelona in 2017 is their only success in their last five knockout matches with Spanish side at the Parc des Princes (D2 L2). • Paris won the first 15 UEFA competition ties when they recorded a first-leg away victory, although the 16th and most recent, against Manchester United in the 2018/19 round of 16, ended in elimination on away goals (2-0 a, 1-3 h). This is the first of those ties in which the away first leg has finished 4-1. • Paris's European penalty shoot-out record is W0 L1: 3-4 v Rangers, 2001/02 UEFA Cup third round Barcelona • Barcelona were beaten 3-0 at home by Juventus on Matchday 6, relinquishing top spot in Group G to the Italian side on head-to-head record despite a 2-0 victory in Turin in the second round of fixtures. Ronald Koeman's side recorded two wins against both Ferencváros (5-1 h, 3-0 a) and Dynamo Kyiv (2-1 h, 4-0 a) and sealed their place in the round of 16 with two matches to spare. However, the reverse against Juve meant they failed to win their section for the first time since 2006/07. • That Matchday 6 loss was Barcelona's first in 39 UEFA Champions League home matches, a run that started in September 2013 (W34 D4); a 5-1 defeat of Lyon in the 2018/19 round of 16 second leg eclipsed the previous competition record of 29 set by Bayern München between March 1998 and April 2002. • Defeat by Juve also ended Barça's four-year, 25-match unbeaten run in the UEFA Champions League group stage (W19 D6), since a 3-1 reverse at Manchester City on Matchday 4 in 2016/17. • Second in the Spanish Liga behind Real Madrid last season, this is Barcelona's 25th UEFA Champions League campaign, a competition record they share with Madrid. They are in the round of 16 for the 17th successive season. • In 2019/20, Barcelona picked up 14 points to finish four clear of Borussia Dortmund in their section, collecting seven points both home and away.