Five key stats from week 11 in Ligue 1- the Falcao crisis is over

Paris Saint-Germain unbeaten run extends to 30 games

With 30 minutes to go it looked like PSG would suffer their first defeat in 29 games. Not since the 1-0 defeat at Reims had the Parisians tasted defeat. Then Saint-Etienne’s Fabien Lemoine picked up his second yellow card and the home side were reduced to 10 men and the 2-0 lead they had worked hard to achieve was in trouble.

The inevitable happened and PSG came back, firing on all cylinders, first through Edinson Cavani with 20 minutes to go and then at the death former Sainte midfielder Blaise Matuidi got the equaliser. It will feel like a loss for the home side, but down to 10 men it was always going to be difficult, and PSG turned up the intensity with the one man advantage.

The stats before and after Lemoine’s 60th minute red card make for very interesting reading. With a full complement of players ASSE attempted 201 passes and had 7 shots on goal, this dropped to 58 passes and 2 shots after the red. They also only completed 45% of those passes compared to 73% before. It was PSG however that made the biggest change.

In the opening 60 minutes they attempted 343 passes and had 6 shots on goal, in the last 30 they tried 257 passes and 15 shots on goal. That’s an increase in passes per minute from 5.7 to 8.5 and from 1 shot up to five shots every ten minutes. Hard for Sainte to survive under that sort of constant pressure. Also a great example of PSG’s never-give-up attitude under Blanc that has emerged this season.