Luis Suarez and his Champions League curse: Four years without a goal away from the Camp Nou Barcelona Roma were the last victim

Luis Suarez will step onto the Signal Iduna Park pitch for the first time on Tuesday night when Barcelona face Borussia Dortmund, and he will do so in a buoyant mood after returning from a calf injury to score two goals against Valencia on Saturday night.

For Suarez and the entire Barcelona squad, they have one goal this season: to win the Champions League for the first time since 2015.

Oddly enough, the season Barcelona last lifted the Champions League was the last time he scored away from the Camp Nou in Europe's premier club competition.

That season, 2015/16, Luis Enrique's side had to come up against Roma, Bayer Leverkusen and BATE Borisov in the group stage. Barcelona did not have much trouble and topped the group, but on the Blaugrana's Champions League curtain raiser that season at the Stadio Olimpico, Suarez netted in the 20th minute. That was his last strike away from the Camp Nou in the Champions League.

That is not to say that Suarez has not been decisive when playing away in Europe; he was not awarded the goal at Old Trafford that put Barcelona 1-0 ahead, for instance, as it was given as a Luke Shaw own goal.

Overall, his performances have been increasingly worrying for Barcelona in the Champions League, having scored just five goals in Europe in the last three years. To contrast, Suarez scored seven and eight goals respectively in each of his first two seasons wearing Barcelona's shirt.

However, with a new season comes the chance to start afresh. The Uruguayan will look to end his curse away from the Camp Nou at one of Europe's most hostile grounds - Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park - but the goals he netted at the weekend will give him confidence.

Curiously, Barcelona have not played at the Signal Iduna Park since 1998, when they disputed the first leg of the Super Cup final against Dortmund.

Now, Suarez is ready to return to the starting line-up and with a Lionel Messi that is not 100 percent fit, despite being included in the travelling squad, Barcelona need Suarez to turn things around and find the back of the net away from home in the Champions League. And he knows this himself.