Tonight (21h) at Groupama Stadium in Lyon, the D1 concludes with fanfare the first leg of this season 2017/2018. Olympique Lyonnais, leader of the championship, receives his dolphin from Paris Saint-Germain. The two clubs are separated by two points at the top of the standings. More than a game to stake for the title this season, this showdown between the two largest cars in the Hexagon has become over time a peak expected. Back in figures on this poster.


A history of meetings largely in favor of OL


If one sticks only to the history of the meetings between these two teams, there is really something to depress for the Parisian supporters ... Since FC Lyon became the Olympique Lyonnais in 2004, the OL and PSG have met 32 ​​times. The Lyonnaises won 21 wins, 8 draws and only 3 defeats. Similarly, in these 28 games, Lyon scored no less than 62 goals (an average of almost two goals per game), for only ... 10 goals conceded! The club of the capital will certainly never forget the two humiliations suffered during the 2015/16 season: one in the league (0-5) and the other in the semi-final first leg of the Champions League (0-7) .

For the record, Paris won only once in the league in Lyon, it was in January 2014, while OL had already widened the gap in the standings. On the Lyon bench, it was a certain Patrice Lair who led the formation Rhone, beaten with a goal of Laura Georges on a free kick Kheira Hamraoui, today at OL.


Ada Hegerberg, executioner of PSG


Among the many Lyon players who played against Paris, one particularly hurt the club of the capital. Norway striker Ada Hegerberg has already scored eight goals against PSG. She is the best scorer in the history of this OL - PSG showdown. And she currently dominates the standings in D1, with fifteen goals in ten days, not to mention the 13 achievements of the Norwegian striker in the Champions League.

Ada Hegerberg, who according to Patrice Lair, has found his "scoring side", after a season in 2016/2017 where she scored only once in the four confrontations between the two teams. She is also a mainstay of the Lyon squad, and is the only player with Sarah Bouhaddi to have played all ten OL games in D1 this season. No luck for Paris, she should (except accident) be back on Monday night at Groupama Stadium. Just like Eugénie Le Sommer, who has scored ten goals since the start of the championship.


However, the PSG also has offensive arguments to make. 19-year-old Marie-Antoinette Katoto is second in the standings behind Hegerberg with eleven goals. Especially since she can also count on the quality of pass of her Spanish teammate Jennifer Hermoso, one of the best setters of the championship behind ... two Lyon, Camille Abily and Amel Majri.A glimmer of hope for Paris


While Paris Saint-Germain has won only three matches in twenty-eight confrontations against Olympique Lyonnais. But the last victory in Paris is only a year old. It was December 17, 2016 at Camp des lodges, on the eleventh day of D1. Paris won 1-0 over a goal from their attacker Marie-Laure Délie. This unexpected victory had put PSG at the top of the standings before the winter break, with three points ahead of OL. But the affair of the score sheet against Albi and a withdrawal of four points in the standings had sounded the death knell for Parisian title hopes.

Another interesting statistic, the three games PSG won against Lyon have all been on the same score: 1-0. And two of these three matches, played in 2014 (in D1 and Champions League), were won in Lyon! A good sign when we know that tonight's game is played in the Rhone. Two games that were won at a time when the Lyonnaises played in Gerland. Since the club's move to Décines, Paris has moved twice to OL Park and has not scored a goal yet, for ten cashes. The kind of stats that we want to erase ...


The tendencies of the two teams over the last twenty matches


Lyon does not know the defeat. In its last twenty games played in all competitions, the Rhone club has won eighteen times (90% of wins) and conceded two draws for zero defeat. But the two draws Lyon were all conceded against the same opponent: Paris Saint-Germain! It was first in the final of the Coupe de France (1-1, 7-6 tab for Lyon) on May 19, then in the final of the Champions League (0-0, 7-6 tab for Lyon) on June 1 . Proof is that the PSG is the only French club to compete with the Lyon ogre at the moment.

Paris has won fourteen of its last twenty games in all competitions (70% of wins), five draws and one defeat. And guess what? The only defeat of the PSG was conceded against Lyon! It was May 13, in the league. Paris lost 3-0 to Lyon, with goals from Le Sommer, the inevitable Hegerberg and American star Alex Morgan (since returned to Orlando Pride in the United States). A match partially truncated in the absence of stake, Lyon already having the title of champion in the pocket, at least that's probably what Parisians must have said in preparing the appointment tonight.

We will not lie, Lyon will be favorite tonight against Paris. But football is far from an exact science. And a PSG victory at Groupama Stadium would shatter all the statistics mentioned above, even if the impression left by the end of last season is that the two teams have rarely seemed so close. In terms of accounting, a victory in Paris would revive the race for the title, while a tie would maintain the status quo with Lyon in the lead, and Paris on his heels. Conversely, a win in Lyon would already put Wendie Renard's teammates in orbit to win ... a twelfth consecutive title of champions of France.