PSG make it 5 straight with 6-goal rout
A 6-0 win at Villarreal on Tuesday 3 November kept PSG perfect in UEFA Champions League and stretched their run to 5W.
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PSG did not need long to settle the argument. By the time the Tuesday 3 November match at Villarreal was over, the scoreline read 0-6, and the French side had a 5th consecutive win across all competitions.
The league table tells the same story in colder numbers. 1st place, 12 points from 4 games, 20 scored and 5 conceded for a goal difference of +15. Four wins, no draws, no defeats. Nobody else in the competition has paired that points total with a differential of that size — Real Madrid sit on 12 points with +6, Arsenal on 10 with +5.
What separates this from a hot streak is the spread. PSG have won 6 at home with 2 draws and 0 losses, and 5 on the road with 1 draws and 1 defeat. The form line reads WWWWW. There is no soft half of the fixture list carrying them.
Their leading scorer, if you go looking for one in the competition charts, is nowhere near the top: the list is headed by Anastasios Douvikas of Como 1907 on 6, then Nicolo Tresoldi on 5 and Erling Haaland on 5. PSG are doing this without a single player in that group. Twenty goals from four matches, shared around.
Next comes Roma at home on Wednesday 25 November, matchday 5. A word of caution for anyone already handing out the trophy: Aston Villa are sixth on 9 points, and UEFA Champions League group stages have a habit of turning on one bad night.
Five wins is five wins. Ask the defence that has shipped 5.