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Paris Saint-Germain's Marquinhos targeting unbeaten Ligue 1 season

Paris Saint-Germain's next target is to go through the league campaign unbeaten, Brazilian defender Marquinhos has said after the club broke the Ligue 1 record for the longest unbeaten run.

The defending champions' 3-1 victory over Lorient on Wednesday means they have now gone 33 matches without defeat in the French top flight, one more than Nantes managed during the 1994-95 campaign.

PSG's run dates back to last season and Marquinhos, 21, hopes they can continue it for the final 14 league matches of the current campaign.

"This record means a lot to us," he told Le Parisien. "We've had a good mentality since the start of the season. Even when the team rotates, we still perform well. We have big ambitions. The goal is to remain unbeaten."

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who scored his league-leading 20th goal of the season against Lorient, says PSG have been concentrating on their performances rather than breaking records.

"We have a strong team -- not only the first XI," he told PSG TV. "Our team is 25 players and whenever [manager Laurent Blanc] makes the changes, there's still the same qualities on the pitch to play.

"But this is nothing we think about. We want to do good every time, play good and win the games. That is what counts. Then these records comes by itself but it's nice to be part of the history also for this."

Blanc also made history on Wednesday by taking charge of his 100th Ligue 1 game as PSG manager.

The former France boss has won eight trophies at the club since succeeding Carlo Ancelotti in June 2013 and he believes he had evolved significantly while working in the French capital.

"Yes -- in every area," he told reporters after the Lorient game. "I think PSG has helped me to develop a lot because even if I'm a certain age, I'm still quite a young manager with a lot of experience as a player but little experience as a manager.

"So the situations I can experience at PSG are very different to what I experienced at Bordeaux or with France, because the national team is completely different in my opinion... It's true that at PSG we have the players, we have the resources but the management of the squad is still something that's very important and not all that easy."