French sides Brest and PSG will meet in the Champions League playoff across two legs. PSG currently sit top of Ligue 1 with a 10 point lead over Marseille. Brest are currently sitting eighth in the league but are only three points adrift from the top three. 

PSG finished 15th in the Champions League group phase, while Brest finished 18th. In the final game of the group phase Brest fell to a heavy defeat against Real Madrid while PSG beat Stuttgart 4-1.

PSG are undefeated since November when they lost to Bayern. They have won nine of their last 10 games in all competitions with the other being a draw.

Brest have won their last two games in a row but lost to Real Madrid and PSG in their games before that. 

The winner of this tie across two legs will face either Liverpool or Barcelona who were the top two seeds after the group phase.

Head-to-head record: Last 10 meetings

Brest 2-5 PSG

PSG 3-1 Brest

PSG 3-1 Brest

PSG 2-2 Brest

Brest 2-3 PSG

Brest 1-2 PSG

PSG 1-0 Brest

PSG 2-0 Brest

Brest 2-4 PSG

Brest 0-2 PSG

PSG Nine wins

One Draw

Brest Zero wins

Matchup Statistics

• PSG have scored at least two goals in 15 of their last 16 meetings against Brest. 
• Brest haven’t kept a clean sheet against PSG since 1991 when David Ginola played for Brest. This is 29 meetings ago.
• Eric Roy has played PSG 10 times as manager of Brest and previously of Nice. In this time he has won once, drawn twice and lost seven times. The win came in his first meeting as Nice manager against PSG in 2010. A young Loic Remy scored the only goal for Nice in a 1-0 win.
• This is only the second-ever meeting between two French sides in the Champions League. The first was in the 2010 quarter-final between Bordeaux and Lyon.

Team Statistics

• Brest have qualified from the first phase of a European competition on their first attempt. The last French side to do so was Nice in 1956/57 when they reached the quarter-final of the European Cup.
• Brest’s only home loss in the league phase came against Real Madrid in the final game, where they were beaten 3-0.
• Only Bayern Munich took more shots than PSG. The French Champions took 18.6 shots per game on average in the competition.
• No team missed more big chances than PSG in the group phase who missed 23. In the group phase, Brest only had 15 big chances. 
• PSG scored a total of 14 goals in the league phase of the Champions League. 11 came in their final three matches against Salzburg, Man City and Stuttgart. 

Player Statistics

• Ousmane Dembele scored four goals in the group phase, all coming in the final two matches against Man City and Stuttgart. 
• No defender provided more assists than Achraf Hakimi in the group stage with three. 
• Abdallah Sima is the only Brest player who scored more than one goal in the league phase with three. He is currently on loan from Premier League side Brighton.
• Ousmane Dembele is the top scorer in Ligue 1 with 16 goals, three ahead of next in the Golden Boot race. Ludovic Ajorque is Brest’s top Ligue 1 scorer with nine.