All to play for as Braga welcome PSG

Something has to give as SC Braga host Paris Saint-Germain FC in the second leg of their UEFA Cup Round of 16 tie, with a 0-0 draw in Paris having left both sides feeling reasonably optimistic.

• PSG boss Paul Le Guen pronounced himself "generally satisfied" after the inconclusive first leg, while Braga coach Jorge Jesus said: "It was not the best result for Braga, but it is still 50-50."

• PSG have a strong affiliation with Portuguese football. The biggest connection is provided by Pauleta, Portugal's highest goalscorer with 47 strikes in 88 international games, who played at the Parc des Princes from 2003 to 2008, scoring 76 goals in 168 Ligue 1 matches.

• The 'Eagle from the Azores' scored a record 109 goals in all competitions for the club, and is now working for PSG in an advisory and ambassadorial capacity.

• Erstwhile coach Artur Jorge is also remembered fondly in Paris. The former Portugal striker led PSG to their last French title in 1993/94 and returned to the capital more recently as coach of US Créteil Lusitanos – the club that has traditionally represented the capital's Portuguese community.

• Humberto Coelho, who led Portugal to the last four at UEFA EURO 2000™, was a PSG centre-back between 1975 and 1977 and later coached Braga in the 1986/87 season.

• Capped once by Portugal, midfielder Hugo Leal was part of the PSG squad that won the French Cup in 2003/04 and later played for Braga from 2005 to 2007.

• The first leg was PSG and Braga's first meeting in UEFA club competition.

• PSG's record against Portuguese clubs now reads P7 W3 D2 L2. They have never won an away game against a Portuguese outfit, with their three previous trips ending in two defeats and a goalless draw.

• Braga had never come up against French opposition before the first leg, nor had coach Jorge Jesus.

• PSG coach Le Guen has now been involved in five games against Portuguese sides as a coach: three with his current club and two with Olympique Lyonnais. His record in those games reads P5 W1 D2 L2. Both of his away games ended in defeat.

• Le Guen's Lyon lost out to José Mourinho's FC Porto in the quarter-finals of the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League. PSG's Péguy Luyindula played in both legs of that match, which Lyon lost 4-2 on aggregate, while Braga's César Peixoto was an unused substitute in both games for Porto.

• Braga's Filipe Oliveira was a team-mate of Claude Makelele and Mateja Kežman at Chelsea FC in the 2004/05 season.

• Braga's Albert Meyong and PSG's Luyindula were team-mates at Spanish side Levante UD in the 2006/07 season, while the latter was on loan from Olympique de Marseille.

• The Portuguese club's Colombian forward Renteria has French football experience, having joined RC Strasbourg on loan from Porto in the 2007/08 season. He scored nine Ligue 1 goals, including one in a 2-1 home defeat by PSG.

• PSG are unbeaten in six European games since losing 3-1 at FC Schalke 04 in the UEFA Cup group stage, with that run comprising three wins and three draws.

• Braga are unbeaten in their last four UEFA Cup games. They have won all but one of their six European home games this season, losing 3-2 to VfL Wolfsburg – the side PSG knocked out in the Round of 32 – in the UEFA Cup group stage.

• As the last of the eleven sides that qualified for UEFA Cup places as winners of the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup, Braga have been declared the official victors of the final edition of the traditional summer competition. They will be presented with an official plaque in recognition of this achievement before this second leg.

• This decider will be PSG's 50th UEFA Cup game.

• PSG's top European marksman this season is Luyindula, whose six goals make him the joint second highest scorer in the UEFA Cup along with Hamburger SV's Ivica Olić, VfB Stuttgart's Mario Gómez and Braga's Luis Aguiar.

• Luis Aguiar has scored six times since the first round of the UEFA Cup and also struck once for his side in their UEFA Intertoto Cup win against Sivasspor, though this goal does not count towards his total for the season. His team-mate Albert Meyong, meanwhile, has scored five times in this edition of the UEFA Cup.

• French League Cup holders PSG qualified for the Round of 32 as third-placed finishers in Group A. They proved to be too strong for Wolfsburg in the first knockout round, winning 2-0 at home and 3-1 away.

• Braga finished third in UEFA Cup Group E, having taken seventh place in the Liga in 2007/08. They reached the Round of 16 at the expense of R. Standard de Liège, winning 3-0 in Portugal and drawing the return leg in Belgium 1-1.

• Braga have never been involved in a penalty shoot-out in UEFA club competition.

• In their only UEFA club competition tie decided on penalties, PSG lost 4-3 on spot-kicks at home against Rangers FC in the third round of the 2001/02 UEFA Cup.

• Braga's Vandinho, Renteria, César Peixoto and Evaldo are within a caution of a one-match ban.

• Marseille's Luyindula is also a booking shy of a suspension.

• The draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals takes place in Nyon on 20 March, exactly two months before the final at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium in Istanbul on 20 May.