Paris police have beefed up their presence in a bid to avoid clashes between rival hooligans at Paris Saint-Germain's home Champions League game with Ajax on Tuesday, leading to almost 100 arrests among travelling supporters.
Some 2,000 police and riot police officers will be present around the Parc des Princes for the Group F encounter, which has been classed as "very high risk."
Police said that 95 hooligans arrested in downtown Paris -- all of them Dutch -- were armed with iron sticks, knuckledusters and ski masks found by police in the bars where they were gathered.
Forty-one supporters were released overnight while 54 remained in custody on Tuesday morning.
French authorities fear some 200 to 300 Dutch hooligans have made the trip, in addition to the 850 ticket-holding members of Ajax's official travelling support, in the hope of clashing with their Parisian counterparts.
Though PSG have taken steps to neutralise the more violent factions of its support since running battles in the Paris streets between home supporters and FC Twente fans before and after the clubs' 2008 Europa League encounter, hooliganism remains a problem for the French champions outside their stadium.
Rival factions of PSG support used the derby between lower division clubs Paris FC and Red Star as a pretext for violent incidents as recently as September.
Police have special powers to stop and arrest any Ajax fan around the Parc des Princes who is not in possession of a ticket, and have been exercising that right since Sunday afternoon, checking arrivals by train and plane.
On the pitch, PSG will be without injured midfield trio Thiago Motta, Yohan Cabaye and Marco Verratti, so Adrien Rabiot is set to make his Champions League bow this season in front of the back four.
Javier Pastore will also occupy one of the three places in midfield for Laurent Blanc's side, who are already through to the knockout phase. The Argentina international, 25, has developed into one of the PSG coach's first-choice selections this season, flourishing in a deeper role.
Initially, Pastore looked over-priced having arrived from Palermo for 42 million euros in 2011, but the talented attacking midfielder is now playing the best football of his PSG career to date.
Salvatore Sirigu, who moved to PSG from Palermo at the same time as Pastore, told media he always had confidence his teammate would prove the critics wrong.
"I have always thought he did good work, even when he was criticised," the Italian goalkeeper said. "He now has a little more confidence in himself and a little more luck.
"Everyone looks at him differently now. He's a player who gives himself to the team, even when he does work that people don't notice. He does it for the good of the team. The rest doesn't surprise me. He can turn a game at any time."
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report