PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN are searching for a fifteenth straight home Ligue 1 win when they welcome Marseille.

Paris Saint-Germain welcome fierce rivals Olympique de Marseille to Parc des Princes on Sunday in this season’s first instalment of Le Classique.

The capital club currently lead Ligue 1, four points clear of AS Saint-Etienne, while the southerners come into the game struggling for form and engulfed in controversy after the disgusting scenes at Stade Velodrome for Mathieu Valbuena’s return as an Olympique Lyonnais player last month.

PSG are looking to extend their unbeaten run against OM to 10 matches, which would represent a new record for Les Parisiens.

MARSEILLE, FRANCE - APRIL 5: Blaise Matuidi of PSG and Jacques-Alaixys Romao of OM in action during the French Ligue 1 match between Olympique de Marseille (OM) and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at New Stade Velodrome on April 5, 2015 in Marseille, France. (P
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Date: Sunday, October 4

Time: 8 p.m. BST (9 p.m. CET)/3 p.m. EDT

Venue: Parc des Princes, Paris

TV Info: Canal+ (France—9 p.m. CEST), BT Sport 2 (UK—shown on delay at 8:45 p.m. BST), beIN Sports (USA—shown on delay at 4:30 p.m. EDT)

Live Stream: beIN Sports Connect

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MARSEILLE, FRANCE - APRIL 5: Blaise Matuidi of PSG celebrates his goal with Marco Verratti of PSG during the French Ligue 1 match between Olympique de Marseille (OM) and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at New Stade Velodrome on April 5, 2015 in Marseille, Franc
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Preamble:

Coming into Sunday’s match, the fixture could not be more one-sided on paper. PSG are unbeaten in Ligue 1 this season while Marseille have already lost four times in Le Championnat and once more in the UEFA Europa League.

Laurent Blanc’s men are coming off the back of consecutive wins over EA Guingamp and FC Nantes in the league and Shakhtar Donetsk in the UEFA Champions League, while OM have suffered two straight home defeats against Angers SCO and FC Slovan Liberec in the past week.

PSG can make it eight straight wins against their loathed rivals with victory this weekend, and avoiding defeat will make it Les Parisiens’ best-ever run of results against Marseille.

As if things were not hard enough for Michel’s men ahead of their visit to the capital, they will be without any travelling support.

Per ESPN FC’s Mark Rodden, OM supporters have opted against accepting their 500-seat allocation in order to calm the current situation and are under scrutiny while a decision is made on how to punish the club.

Out of form and with no support in Paris, Marseille are facing the tallest of orders to even come away with a point on Sunday.

PSG's squad is at full-strength for the visit of their sworn enemies, per PSG.fr, while Marseille are missing the suspended Benjamin Mendy, as well as injured pair Abou Diaby and Georges-Kevin K'Koudou according to OM.net (in French).

MARSEILLE, FRANCE - APRIL 5: Javier Pastore of PSG and Jacques-Alaixys Romao of OM (left) in action during the French Ligue 1 match between Olympique de Marseille (OM) and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at New Stade Velodrome on April 5, 2015 in Marseille, Fra
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Form Lines (all competitions):

PSG

W 2-0 vs. Malmo FF (Champions League)

D 1-1 vs. Stade de Reims (Ligue 1)

W 3-0 vs. Guingamp (Ligue 1)

W 1-4 vs. Nantes (Ligue 1)

W 0-3 vs. Shakhtar Donetsk (Champions League)

Marseille

W 0-3 vs. FC Groningen (Europa League)

D 1-1 vs. Lyon (Ligue 1)

D 1-1 vs. Toulouse (Ligue 1)

L 1-2 vs. Angers (Ligue 1)

L 0-1 vs. Slovan Liberec (Europa League)

MARSEILLE, FRANCE - APRIL 5: Goalkeeper of OM Steve Mandanda in action during the French Ligue 1 match between Olympique de Marseille (OM) and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at New Stade Velodrome on April 5, 2015 in Marseille, France. (Photo by Jean Catuffe/G
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Predicted Formations

PSG (4-3-3): Trapp; Aurier, Silva (c), Luiz/Marquinhos, Maxwell; Motta, Verratti, Matuidi; Di Maria, Ibrahimovic, Cavani.

Marseille (4-3-3/4-2-3-1): Mandanda (c); Manquillo, N’Koulou, Rekik, De Ceglie/Dja Djedje; Silva, Diarra, Barrada/Ocampos; Alessandrini, Batshuayi, Cabella.

Paris Saint Germain Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic (R) celebrates after scoring a goal  during the French L1 football match between Marseille (OM) and Paris Saint Germain (PSG) at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, southern France, on April 5, 2015. 
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Player to Watch Per Side

On Sunday, all eyes will be on PSG’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic once again. The Swede turned 34 on Saturday and will be aiming to belatedly celebrate with a goal or two against one of his preferred Ligue 1 victims.

The talismanic striker has scored six goals against Marseille, the joint-best tally along with the capital club’s legendary Portuguese striker Pedro Miguel Pauleta, so one more goal would make him Le Classique’s all-time top scorer.

In addition to that, Ibrahimovic is one goal behind Pauleta in PSG’s all-time scoring chart. The former Portugal international managed 109 goals in his time in Paris, while Zlatan has 108 at present.

Marseille's Belgian midfielder Michy Batshuayi controls the ball during the French L1 football match Olympique of Marseille (OM) versus Paris Saint-Germain at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille on April 05, 2015.    AFP PHOTO / BORIS HORVAT        (Photo
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One more on Sunday would pull the towering striker level, after his strike in the win away at Shakhtar in midweek ultimately went down as a Darijo Srna own goal, while a brace or more would make Zlatan PSG’s all-time leading scorer.

On the opposite side, Marseille’s Michy Batshuayi will be looking to spoil the party.

Having just been overlooked for Marc Wilmots’ latest Belgium squad for the 2016 UEFA European Championships qualifiers against Andorra and Israel, the 22-year-old will be keen to prove a point before the next international break.

Despite OM’s collective poor form, Batshuayi has still managed to score five times in eight Ligue 1 games, as well as providing one more goal.

The Belgian is second in Le Championnat’s scoring charts, with only PSG’s Edinson Cavani and OGC Nice’s Hatem Ben Arfa ahead of him.

Paris Saint-Germain's French midfielder Blaise Matuidi jubilates at the end of the French L1 football match between Marseille (OM) and Paris (PSG) on April 5, 2015 at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, southern France. AFP PHOTO / BORIS HORVAT        (Ph
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Key Battle

Sunday’s clash will throw up a midfield battle between two of France’s in-form midfielders.

Marseille’s Lassana Diarra was a surprise inclusion in Didier Deschamps’ France squad for the upcoming friendlies against Armenia and Denmark, recalled for the first time since 2010, and the 30-year-old will come face-to-face with the irrepressible Blaise Matuidi of PSG.

MARSEILLE - AUGUST 23: Lassana Diarra of OM in action during the French Ligue 1 match between Olympique de Marseille (OM) and Troyes ESTAC at New Stade Velodrome on August 23, 2015 in Marseille, France. (Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images)
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Diarra has been impressive so far this season for OM, one of the few players to impress along with Batshuayi, so he will be keen to continue his renaissance with another strong performance at the heart of the visiting midfield.

The ever-dependable Matuidi has enjoyed a strong season so far and rarely puts a foot wrong. PSG have missed him when he has been rotated in recent games, notably the first half of the 4-1 win away at Nantes last weekend, so expect the 28-year-old France international to start.

Both Diarra and Matuidi should feature prominently on Sunday before linking up together with Les Bleus.