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Barcelona haven't lost at home in Europe since May, 2013

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Barcelona must beat Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday if they don't want their qualification hopes to boil down to the final game away at Inter Milan in the Champions League. However, they have something in their favour ahead of the German side's Camp Nou visit this week: they haven't lost at home in Europe since May 1, 2013. 

In total, they are 24 games unbeaten -- 30 wins and four draws -- and have scored 101 goals, conceding 16. A draw against Dortmund, though, could complicate things for Ernesto Valverde's side. They would visit Inter needing a point, providing the Italians are capable of beating the impressive Slavia Prague on Wednesday. 

Camp Nou has been a fortress since the 3-0 loss against Bayern Munich in the semifinals of the 2012-13 season. Since then, no one has been capable of beating he Catalans at home. Only four teams have managed a draw: Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Tottenham and Slavia Prague. No German club of the three that have played there (Bayern, Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Mönchengladbach) left with a good result. 

This is the seventh season in which they have remained unbeaten at home in the Champions League. The top scorer across these 34 games is Lionel Messi (35 -- two from penalties).  Behind the Argentine are Neymar (16), Suárez (15), Piqué (6) and Dembélé (4). 

Barcelona have been so consistent in this time. What's more, in 21 of the 34 games since they last lost at home, they have scored three or more goals and they have never conceded more than one. They have kept 18 clean sheets.  

Then there have been the hammerings, with Celtic taking two. The Scottish champions were beaten 6-1 in 2013-14 and 7-0 in 2016-17. Then there's Roma and Paris Saint-German, who both conceded six. PSG were famously thumped 6-1 in the last 16 in 2017 having won the first leg 4-0 in Paris. 

With the 5-1 win over Lyon in March of this year, Barça broke Bayern's record of 29 games unbeaten at home in the Champions League. The German giants had been unbeatable at their ground between March 1998 and April 2002. 

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