Passionate about sport, cinema and television (on screen and behind) since his childhood, Bernard has been a journalist for 10 Sport since 2018. More skilled with the keyboard in hand than with the ball on his feet, he decides to mainly cover a beloved sport, criticized and hated at the same time (football) and a sport that is not one (wrestling).
This Wednesday, PSG meets Borussia Dortmund for their Champions League semi-final first leg. The stakes are high for the capital club, which has become accustomed to confronting German opponents but also the Ruhr club in its history, with a rather favorable record for the Parisians.
It’s the big day for Paris Saint-Germain! Four years after the final lost against the Bayern Munichthe capital club can once again believe in its chances of winning the Champions League, the great dream of the Qatari owners since the takeover in 2011. But before hoping to lift the “Big Ears Cup”, it will be necessary to undo Borussia Dortmund in the semi-final, with a first leg scheduled for this Wednesday in Germany (9 p.m.). In its history, the meetings against residents of the Bundesliga have rather turned to the advantage of the PSG.
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A favorable record against German clubs
The Parisian team has already come up against a German club 28 times, for a record of 15 wins, 4 draws and 9 defeats. THE Bayern Munich is the adversary that the PSG has faced the most on the European scene with a record of 6 wins for 6 losses, without any draw. These last years, Leipzig has become another team that the capital club has become accustomed to facing with five matches on the clock since 2020, including the half in Final 8 (3-0). Since PSG has two victories, a draw and a defeat against the Red Bull galaxy team. In 2014, the double confrontation with the Bayer Leverkusen had brought luck to PSG, emerged winner of the two round of 16 finals (4-0 and 2-1). Before the arrival of QSIit is facing Wolfsburg (2 victories in 2009) and Schalke 04 (1 defeat in 2008) that the Parisians had an appointment in the UEFA Cup. What about against Borussia Dortmund ?
A defeat in six matches against Dortmund
The Rhur club is doing quite well in PSG, winner of two matches for three draws and only one defeat on the clock. This setback dates back to the year 2020 and the round of 16 first leg against the team ofErling Haaland (1-2). The return had turned in favor of PSG, playing in a Parc des Princes behind closed doors at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic (2-0). This season, the two teams found themselves in group F. The men of Luis Enrique won the match at the Parc des Princes (2-0) before snatching a draw in Germany a few weeks later (1-1).
