Paris Saint Germain vs AS Roma Prediction

How each side has been playing

PSG's last ten matches across competitions show seven wins, two draws and just one defeat, with some big scorelines along the way including a 6-1 win over Slovan Bratislava and a 4-2 away win at Manchester City. Goals have generally come fairly freely for them.

Paris Saint Germain: 20 completed matches; AS Roma: 20 completed matches.

Paris Saint Germain

20 matches

Win

60% 12 / 20

Draw

20% 4 / 20

Loss

20% 4 / 20

Scored

43

Conceded

24

Difference

+19

AS Roma

20 matches

Win

55% 11 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

15% 3 / 20

Scored

50

Conceded

28

Difference

+22

Roma's recent run looks competitive too. Across their last ten they've picked up five wins and four draws, losing only to Real Madrid, and they've shown they can score goals when needed, including a 4-0 win over Slovan Bratislava themselves.

Both teams arrive with reasonable recent form, so neither side's broader results point to an obvious gap in quality.

Comparative Team Statistics: Paris Saint Germain vs AS Roma

Past meetings

These two met back in 2017 in a pre-season friendly, which finished 1-1. It's the only meeting we have on record, and being a friendly from nearly a decade ago, it doesn't really tell us anything useful about how this version of either side will play.

The Champions League table so far

In the league phase itself, PSG currently sit top with six points from two games, having scored ten and conceded just three. Roma, by contrast, are down in 25th with a single point from a draw and a defeat, and have conceded five while scoring four.

It's worth remembering this is only two matches into the league phase for both sides, so there's plenty of time for things to even out. A couple of results either way can shift a table like this quite dramatically.

The table gap is real right now, but it's built on a very small sample.

Players to watch

On the PSG side, Ferran Torres and Ousmane Dembélé have both been among the more productive attacking options in recent matches, with Torres among the scorers and Dembélé chipping in with both goals and assists in the same spell. We don't have equivalent player detail for Roma, so it's hard to single anyone out on their side.

Paris Saint Germain:

Best scorers:

Ferran Torres - 3

O. Dembélé - 2

Best assist providers:

O. Dembélé - 2

What this all points to

PSG look to be the side with more going for them right now, sitting top of the league phase table and scoring freely in their recent matches. Roma's underlying form is decent too, but their Champions League results so far haven't matched that, and they'll need to find a way to tighten things up defensively against a side that's been scoring regularly.

Given it's still early in the league phase, and both squads have shown they can be inconsistent against stronger opposition, this has the look of a fixture where recent attacking form matters as much as the table position.