Paris aim to add to Anderlecht's struggles

Paris Saint-Germain won their last home game 3-0 against SL Benfica and, having triumphed 5-0 at RSC Anderlecht last time out, are looking for a fourth emphatic victory from as many games this season.

• Paris got off to a flying start in Group C, winning 4-1 away to Olympiacos FC before defeating Benfica and Anderlecht, Zlatan Ibrahimović becoming the tenth player to score four goals in a UEFA Champions League match with his haul in Brussels.

• That was Anderlecht's third straight loss; a 2-0 reverse in Lisbon and 3-0 defeat at home to Olympiacos mean they are also searching for their first goal.

Previous meetings
• The game in Belgium was the first meeting between the teams for 21 years. They played out two draws when facing each other in the 1992/93 UEFA Cup third round, 0-0 in Paris and 1-1 in Brussels that took Paris through on away goals.

• Paris earned their biggest-ever European win against Belgian opponents, defeating KAA Gent 7-1 at home in the 2001 Intertoto Cup semi-final having drawn 0-0 away.

• They also beat KSV Waterschei 2-0 in the 1982/83 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final but went down 3-0 away.

• Paris's results against Belgian sides are W3 D3 L1.

• Anderlecht's last visit to France ended in a 5-1 defeat to Olympique Lyonnais and an eventual 8-2 aggregate defeat in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League play-off round.

• It was a rare setback for the Belgian side when travelling to face Ligue 1 teams. Also discounting the 1992 game against Paris, their other six away games have resulted in two wins, three draws and one defeat, also at Lyon (1-0) in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League group stage.

• Anderlecht's results against French sides are W6 D7 L4.

Match background
• Paris, in the group stage for the sixth time, reached the quarter-finals last year where they drew 2-2 at home to FC Barcelona and 1-1 in Spain, going out on away goals.

• They started with a 4-1 home win against FC Dynamo Kyiv and also overcame GNK Dinamo Zagreb (4-0) and FC Porto (2-1). In the round of 16 the French champions won 2-1 at Valencia CF, the home leg ending 1-1.

• In their tenth UEFA Champions League participation, Anderlecht will want to avoid a repeat of last season's campaign when they finished bottom of their group. They suffered the same fate in their other five group stage campaigns since progressing to the last 16 in 2000/01.

• In those six seasons the Belgian side have won just four fixtures and have not tasted victory away since a 1-0 success at Real Betis Balompié in their last match of the 2005/06 group stage.

• Their subsequent seven games on their travels in the competition proper have produced four draws and three defeats.

Team ties
• Demy de Zeeuw and Gregory van der Wiel were team-mates at AFC Ajax between 2009 and 2011.

• John van den Brom was ADO Den Haag's coach when they beat Van der Wiel's Ajax 3-2 at home and 1-0 away in 2010/11.

• Fabrice N'Sakala played for ES Troyes AC from 2008 to 2013.

• Cheikhou Kouyaté's Senegal beat Edinson Cavani's Uruguay 2-0 at Wembley in the group stage at the 2012 Olympic Games.

• Aleksandar Mitrović laid on the only goal of the final against Adrien Rabiot's France to help Serbia lift the UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Marijampole, Lithuania on 1 August. 

• Franck Acheampong's Ghana faced Lucas Digne's France in Group A of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in June 2013 and again in the semi-final. France won the first game 3-1 and the second 2-1, going on to take the title.