PSG’s Lucas Moura reacts after scoring a goal in the midweek Champions League match against Malmo.

Top-flight football returns to the French capital for the first time since the night of the November 13 terrorist attacks as Paris St Germain host Troyes at the Parc des Princes today.

A government-imposed ban on away supporters for all Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 matches will continue until the final round of games before the winter break in mid-December as policing resources are stretched to the limit.

Security will also be tight, after the Stade de France was targeted by suicide attackers two weeks ago during France’s match against Germany.

Runaway leaders PSG, who started the weekend programme with a 13-point advantage over Lyon and Caen, are expected to register a 13th victory in 15 league matches against the league’s bottom side, who have yet to win themselves this season and are nine points off safety.

Even Troyes defender Jonathan Martins Pereira accepts they head to the capital as rank outsiders.

“Although we only have a five per cent chance we will play them trying to achieve the feat,” he told reporters yesterday.

“Football is made of so many surprises. Everything remains possible.

“We will go to stand up to PSG.”

With Lyon in action last night and Caen travelling to Bordeaux tomorrow, the attention outside the capital will be on Nice who head to Toulouse.

Having comfortably beaten Lyon last weekend, Nice have become surprise Champions League qualification contenders, and with Valerie Germain scoring in the last two games they head to Ligue 1’s second-bottom side full of confidence.

Another top-versus-bottom clash sees Angers face Lille, but the fifth-placed hosts are in a mini-slump having not won in their last four matches.

Reims will look to end a six-match losing run at home to Rennes, whose only defeat since mid-October came against PSG and who have not lost away from home since the opening day of the season.

Lorient head into their match away to Ajaccio off the back of a defeat to PSG last weekend while their hosts were buoyed by victory in the Corsican derby.

Ajaccio are one of Ligue 1’s form teams with four successive wins. Jacques Zoua has scored three in his last four matches – one of which was a cup fixture – and Khalid Boutaib has two in two.