Thirty-six games, zero yellows
Referees have waved play on every single time. Willian Pacho played his 36th Champions League match last night in PSG’s win over Slovan Bratislava, and he still has not been booked once in the competition.
No active defender can top that. Pacho now holds the record for most Champions League appearances without a caution, a run that started on his European debut and has carried straight through to Paris.
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The centre-back who never has to foul
That number says plenty about how he defends. A centre-back lives in the duels, battles for second balls and works in the exact areas where officials reach for a card fastest. Getting through 36 matches at this level clean takes positioning, timing, and a read of the game that removes the need for the desperate last-ditch lunge.
He is 24. Thirty-six Champions League matches at that age is already a serious body of work, and the Ecuadorian piled them up as a starter, not as a late substitute filling in minutes.
Why Luis Enrique can plan around him
At PSG he has turned into one of the steadiest parts of the back line. Discipline is not a footnote in a European calendar where a pile of bookings can wipe a first-choice defender out of a decisive league-phase night.
The opposition gets better from here. That is when the run starts to mean something.
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