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Five impressive facts about Juventus-FC Barcelona

This afternoon Juventus and FC Barcelona will face each other for week 2 of the Champions League. It's is a game with huge history. Discover things you didn't know about the rivalry between them.

By Mauricio Saenz

This afternoon Juventus and FC Barcelona will face each other for week 2 of the Champions League. It's is a game with huge history. Discover things you didn't know about the rivalry between them.
This afternoon Juventus and FC Barcelona will face each other for week 2 of the Champions League. It's is a game with huge history. Discover things you didn't know about the rivalry between them.
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FC Barcelona runs a streak of six games without defeats -4 wins and 2 draws- against Italian teams. Their last defeat was 3-0 against Roma in April 2018. Tonight, they will try to stay undefeated against Juventus. Of their last 18 meetings against Serie A teams, the Catalan team have lost only twice, achieved 10 wins and drawn six times.

Juventus in undefeated hosting FC Barcelona in all competitions, with 3 wins and 3 draws. The last game they played at Turin was a 0-0 draw in November 2017. La Vecchia Signora is seeking to match their record of six consecutive wins at home in the Champions League, which dates back to the 2016-2017 season; if they defeat FC Barcelona today, they would reach 5 consecutive victories.

In addition, this victory would be the Cristiano Ronaldo's team 100th victory in the Champions League -the victory against Dinamo Kiev was the 99th-. The Bianconeri could become the first Italian team to reach one hundred wins in the competition. In addition, tonight's match against Lionel Messi's team will be Juventus' 200th Champions League game. Winning would mean that the have won half of their games in the competition, which is an amazing record.

Recently there were players who wore both shirts, such as Arturo Vidal. Currently Juventus has acquired Arthur who arrived this summer from FC Barcelona in exchange for Miralem Pjanic. The team coached by Ronald Koeman also counts on Neto, the Brazilian goalkeeper who played for the Vecchia Signora between 2015 and 2017.


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