While Bayern have managed to avoid defeat in each of their last four UEFA Women's Champions League games against Paris Saint-Germain (winning two and drawing the other two), Les Parisiennes recorded a memorable victory over the Bavarians in the competition's quarter-finals at the Parc des Princes on 29th March 2017, when they thrashed their opponents 4–0 to overturn a 1–0 first-leg deficit.
That remains Paris's largest-ever win against the Rot-Weiß, although the Germans have emerged victorious from each of their last two trips to the French capital, with the most recent result being their 3–1 triumph at this very stage of last season's UWCL.
Having already made a name for herself in the 2026–2027 UWCL so far, Naomie Feller will be one of the key players to watch this evening. The Paris striker has been involved in four of her side's seven goals in this season's league phase, scoring two and assisting in two more.
Feller could even write her name in the capital club's history books tonight. If she were to find the back of the net against Bayern, she would become just the second Paris Saint-Germain player to have scored in each of their first two home UWCL appearances (excluding qualifiers), thereby following in the footsteps of Luana, who broke new ground in this respect by netting against both Sparta Praha and Breiðablik in 2021.
Although these two teams have different attacking styles, they do share one trait: the ability to exploit spaces in transition. In fact, Les Rouge et Bleue are the UWCL's joint most efficient counter-attackers this season, with their total of two breakaway goals matched only by their close neighbours Paris FC.
José Barcala's players are also standout performers in this domain, as their tally of seven shots taken during counter-attacking moves is the highest in the competition, while Les Parisiennes' total of five attempts on the break is the joint second highest. So, both teams' capacity to move up the pitch at pace could be a key detail in this European encounter.
Paulo César's women will also be able to rely on their defensive strength at the Parc des Princes tonight, given that they haven't conceded a single goal in either of their last two UWCL games on home soil (excluding qualifiers). If they were to keep their opponents scoreless for a third time in a row, they would equal the run of clean sheets that they achieved in Europe between October and December 2021.
With five points each after three matches, Paris and Bayern respectively sit sixth and seventh in this particularly tight league phase, meaning that they will both be looking to gain a crucial advantage this evening in the race for the top four spots, which grant a direct route through to the competition's quarter-finals.
