UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Parc des Princes - Paris Wednesday 28 April 2021 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Paris Saint-Germain Semi-finals, First leg Manchester City FC Last updated 27/04/2021 03:09CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Match background 2 Legend 7 1 Paris Saint-Germain - Manchester City FC Wednesday 28 April 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Parc des Princes, Paris Match background Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City meet at the Parc des Princes in the first leg of their semi-final with both seeking to take another step towards a first UEFA Champions League title. • While enjoying plenty of domestic success in recent years, both clubs have found European glory harder to come by. Paris did reach last season's final for the first time only to lose to Bayern München; City are at this stage for only the second time, their last three campaigns having foundered in the quarter-finals. • Both clubs overcame German opposition to set up this semi-final, Paris gaining a measure of revenge by defeating Bayern while City got the better of Borussia Dortmund. • Paris or City could become the 23rd side to win the European Cup, and the first new name on the trophy since Chelsea's 2012 triumph. Previous meetings • City's only previous UEFA Champions League semi-final was secured with a win against Paris in the 2015/16 quarter-finals. The first leg at the Parc des Princes finished 2-2, Kevin De Bruyne's 38th-minute opener for City overturned by goals from Zlatan Ibrahimović (41) and Adrien Rabiot (59) before Fernandinho's equaliser 18 minutes from time. • De Bruyne got the only goal 14 minutes from time in Manchester as Manuel Pellegrini's side prevailed against a Paris side coached by Laurent Blanc. • De Bruyne, Fernandinho and Sergio Agüero played in both games for City, as did Ángel Di María for Paris. Layvin Kurzawa was an unused Paris substitute in both matches, with Marquinhos on the bench in France before playing 90 minutes in England, where Presnel Kimpembe was an unused replacement. • Paul Le Guen's Paris earned a goalless draw against a Manchester City side managed by Mark Hughes at the City of Manchester Stadium in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup group stage – City's first match against a French club. City finished first in Group A with Paris third, both sides progressing to the round of 32. Both eventually lost in the quarter-finals, City going down 4-3 on aggregate to Hamburg while Paris were beaten 3-0 over two legs by Dynamo Kyiv. Form guide Paris • This is Paris's third European Cup semi-final (W1 L1): 1994/95 AC Milan L 0-3 (0-1 h, 0-2 a) 2019/20 Leipzig W 3-0 • That 25-year gap between semi-final appearances is a UEFA Champions League record – beating Ajax's 22-year absence between 1997 and 2019. • In 2019/20 Paris became the fifth French team to reach the European Cup final, after Reims (1956, 1959), St- Étienne (1976), Marseille (1991, 1993) and Monaco (2004). Of those, only Marseille, in the inaugural UEFA Champions League final in 1993, lifted the trophy. • Paris would therefore become the third Ligue 1 club to reach multiple finals if they overcome City. • Paris also reached the semi-finals of three UEFA Cup Winners' Cups and one UEFA Cup. Their record in those ties – which all took place between 1993 and 1997 – was W2 L2 with victories in the last two, against Deportivo La Coruña in 1995/96 and Liverpool in 1996/97, meaning last season's defeat of Leipzig made it three successive victories in European semi-finals. • Paris have won six of their ten games in this season's competition, including four in a row before they were held 1-1 at home by Barcelona in the round of 16 second leg. That nevertheless completed a 5-2 aggregate success, Kylian Mbappé having scored a hat-trick in a 4-1 first-leg victory at the Camp Nou. • That win followed group stage victories at home against Leipzig (1-0), away at Manchester United (3-1) and – to book their round of 16 place as Group H winners – 5-1 at home to İstanbul Başakşehir. Paris also beat the Turkish club 2-0 away on Matchday 2, in between 2-1 defeats at home to United and away to Leipzig. • Paris then eliminated holders Bayern in the last eight, going through on away goals after a 3-2 first-leg win in Germany was followed by a 1-0 home defeat. • Mbappé has now scored eight goals in this season's UEFA Champions League, all in the last five matches, and is in second place in the scoring charts, two behind Erling Haaland, whose Dortmund side were eliminated by City in the quarter-finals. • Ligue 1 champions for the seventh time in eight years in 2019/20, and ninth time overall, Paris also won both 2 Paris Saint-Germain - Manchester City FC Wednesday 28 April 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Parc des Princes, Paris 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. They had beaten Dortmund in the round of 16 (1-2 a, 2-0 h), Atalanta in the one-off quarter-final (2-1) and Leipzig in the semi-final en route to a 1-0 final defeat by Bayern. • The Parisians have now reached the knockout stages on their last nine UEFA Champions League appearances. They suffered three successive last-16 defeats prior to last season. • Under Thomas Tuchel – who was replaced as coach by Mauricio Pochettino in January this year – 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 found the net in their first nine matches this term, and also in 23 successive UEFA Champions League matches at the Parc des Princes, before failing to score at home to Bayern in the quarter-final second leg. • Paris have won 18 of their last 28 UEFA Champions League matches (D4 L6). The second-leg defeat by Bayern was only their fifth in their last 60 European home games (W38 D17), although three of those have come in their last ten matches at the Parc des Princes. • Paris have lost their last two home games against English visitors, having also been beaten 3-1 by Manchester United in the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg, a tie they lost on away goals (2-0 a). A 2-1 defeat of Liverpool on 28 November 2018 is Paris's sole win in their last five home games against Premier League clubs. • Paris have now lost three of their 11 home fixtures against English visitors (W4 D4), the other a 3-0 defeat against Chelsea in the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League group stage. • The 2018/19 defeat by United made Paris's record in two-legged knockout ties with English opponents W3 L4. They have lost the last two; their last aggregate victory came against Chelsea in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League round of 16, a tie in which they won 2-1 both home and away. Manchester City • City lost their only previous European Cup semi-final: 2015/16 Real Madrid L 0-1 (0-0 h, 0-1 a) • The Manchester club have played in two other UEFA competition semi-finals, both in the European Cup Winners' Cup. They beat Schalke in 1969/70 (0-1 a, 5-1 h) but lost to Chelsea at the same stage the following season (0-1 a, 0- 1 h). • City have therefore lost 1-0 in the away leg of all three previous UEFA semi-finals. • City are bidding to become the 42nd club to reach the European Cup final, and the third newcomers in successive seasons after Tottenham Hotspur in 2019 and Paris in 2020. They would be the 21st team to reach the UEFA Champions League final. • City scored three goals in each of their first three Group C victories this season, beating Porto (3-1), Marseille and Olympiacos (both 3-0) before a 1-0 win in Greece on Matchday 4 secured progress. A goalless draw in Porto in their penultimate fixture confirmed City in first place before a closing 3-0 win at home to Marseille. • Josep Guardiola's side then beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 twice in the round of 16, with both games played in Budapest, before defeating Dortmund 2-1 home and away in the quarter-finals. • The goal scored by Dortmund's Marco Reus in the 84th minute of the first leg ended City's run without conceding a UEFA Champions League goal at 790 minutes, since Luis Díaz's 14th-minute opener for Porto on Matchday 1. The record for the competition, set by Arsenal in 2005/06, is 995 minutes, with City now second in the all-time rankings having moved above Juventus (690 minutes). • City finished second in the 2019/20 Premier League and bowed out of the UEFA Champions League at the quarter- final stage for the third season running, going down 3-1 against Lyon in their one-off tie in Lisbon.