A midfield metronome par excellence, Verratti's job is to keep possession rather than make the opposition net ripple, but he has found the target for PSG in Ligue 1 Uber Eats before.

Ligue1.com aggregates the Italian's seven French top-flight goals - some of them well worth the wait!

PSG 4-2 Evian, 18 January 2015

Verratti had been at PSG for two years before opening his account with a header in a 3-2 UEFA Champions League win over Barcelona in September 2014. Three-and-a-half months later he scored his first domestic goal, scoring the second in a 4-2 win over Evian-Thonon-Gaillard FC.

PSG 3-0 Metz, 28 April 2015

PSG 3-1 Metz, 21 August 2016

Metz have been Verratti's favourite opponents in goalscoring terms, with nearly 30 per cent of his league goals coming against them. His first was assisted by Javier Pastore, who had been on the other end of Verratti's first-ever goal-involvement back in September 2012.

PSG 4-0 Rennes, 6 November 2016

PSG 5-0 Bastia, 6 May 2017

Easily the cheekiest of Verratti's seven Ligue 1 Uber Eats goals, Bastia had effectively downed tools after Blaise Matuidi took a tumble in the box, but play continued and Verratti skilfully found the top corner of Jean-Louis Leca's net.

PSG 4-0 Reims, 23 January 2022

PSG 4-0 Reims, 23 January 2022

PSG's third goal in the 4-0 win over Stade de Reims on Sunday was initially marked an own-goal for the visitors but, following review by the LFP's competitions commission, has been attributed to the notoriously goal-shy Verratti.