Aiming to bounce back from a slow start to the Ligue 1 season and a midweek Champions League defeat, Paris Saint-Germain will travel to take on Rennes on Sunday in the eighth round of league games.
Les Parisiens sit fifth in the Ligue 1 table having managed 12 points from their opening seven outings, while their visitors sit just a single point and place behind following a home victory last weekend.
Aiming to build on last season's fourth-placed finish, Bruno Genesio's side began in style with a 5-1 thrashing of Metz, but they then had to settle for five consecutive draws domestically, firstly sharing the spoils with Lens, Le Havre and Brest prior to the international break at the beginning of last month.
On their return to action, Les Rouge et Noirs hosted Lille and came from 2-0 down to take a point from a 2-2 draw, thanks to Ibrahim Salah's 89th-minute leveller, before beating Maccabi Haifa in their Europa League group-stage opener and playing out a goalless stalemate away at Montpellier in the next league outing.
They would then manage a second win of the season in the French top flight at the seventh attempt last weekend, beating Nantes 3-1 on home turf thanks to goals from Benjamin Bourigeaud, Desire Doue and Arnaud Kalimuendo, before most recently travelling to Spain to take on Villarreal in a tough Europa League meeting on Thursday and leaving empty-handed as Alexander Sorloth's first-half goal made the only difference between the sides.
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