📏 Form Guide

Paris Saint-Germain

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PSG will be looking for a repeat result of the 2-3 Champions League victory vs Monaco.

In that game, Paris Saint-Germain had 80% possession and 30 shots at goal with 10 on target. For Paris Saint-Germain, the goalscorers were Désiré Doué (29', 67') and Achraf Hakimi (41'). For their opponents, Monaco had 7 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Folarin Balogun (1', 18') was the scorer for Monaco.

Luis Enrique's Paris Saint-Germain have netted 10 times over their prior 6 outings. The comparative number of goals that have been scored against them in those games amounts to 5.

Leading up to this clash, Paris Saint-Germain:

• are unbeaten in the league by FC Metz in their last 16 matches. A very long unbeaten run against them.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 11 home league matches. Visiting teams have certainly not had an easy time of it here.

FC Metz

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After tasting defeat last time out to AJ Auxerre in Ligue 1 action, Metz and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, FC Metz had 62% possession and 13 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. For FC Metz, the goals were scored by Sadibou Sané (4' Own goal), Urie-Michel Mboula (76' Own goal) and Nathan Mbala (94'). At the other end, Auxerre got 14 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Kevin Danois (89') scored for AJ Auxerre.

Looking at their form, and Metz have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 15 goals in total. Defensively, FC Metz have not been doing too well.

Going into this encounter, FC Metz have not won away from home in their last 5 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A quick look at past results between these clubs stretching back to 24/04/2021 tells us that these encounters have been miserable for Metz. They have not been able to get any wins at all while PSG have just been too good for them, winning in 100% of those matches.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 23 in total which averages out at 3.83 goals per meeting.

The previous league match between these sides was Ligue 1 match day 16 on 13/12/2025 which finished with the scoreline of FC Metz 2-3 Paris Saint-Germain.

In that match, FC Metz managed 41% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Goals were scored by Jessy Deminguet (42') and Giorgi Tsitaishvili (81').

Paris Saint-Germain got 14 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. Ramos (31'), Quentin Ndjantou (39') and Désiré Doué (63') scored.

The match was refereed by Romain Lissorgue.

📋 Team News: PSG

In our view, Les Rouge-et-Bleu will possibly use a 4-3-3 system, beginning the first half with Matvey Safonov, Achraf Hakimi, Ilya Zabarnyi, Willian Pacho, Lucas Hernandez, Warren Zaire-Emery, Vitinha, Joao Neves, Ibrahim Mbaye, Goncalo Ramos and Bradley Barcola.

ℹ️ Team News: Metz

It’s our belief that Les Grenats appear most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 system, going with Jonathan Fischer, Koffi Kouao, Sadibou Sane, Urie-Michel Mboula, Fode Ballo-Toure, Jessy Deminguet, Believe Munongo, Giorgi Tsitaishvili, Gauthier Hein, Giorgi Abuashvili and H. Mouhamadou Diallo.

⚡ Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Paris Saint-Germain can and should get a lot of shots on goal and make them count.

At the other end, FC Metz could well find it tough getting goals although we do reckon that they could well end up converting at least once here.

Our tip is for a pretty comfortable 3-1 victory for Paris Saint-Germain at the end of this one.

Victor Martins, 20:03 21/02/2026