9 - Luis Suárez - v1

[dakt]

I'm mad at Messi. Leo's second goal should have been Suarez/s.

Why? He was chasing the record. I'm sure Suarez doesn't mind that. Suarez goals will come, he looks so hungry and engaging and gives more confidence that this team might
do something special this season as long as Lucho doesn't experiment too much.

 

[Busi-Messi Barca]

I'm mad at Messi. Leo's second goal should have been Suarez/s.

I think if Leo knew he could get on the end of it he would - he's not going to stop and hope Suarez sticks it in!

Suarez is a handful atm and he's only played a few games. Loving his turns and movement - should be found quicker/more often by Busi, Xavi but that will come.

 

[Empty]

Suarez on RW is great. His crosses seem very accurate. Meaning that Dani no longer needs to cross... ever again. Which should increase our chances of winning games.

 

[Kerrybai]

I'm mad at Messi. Leo's second goal should have been Suarez/s.

I would have been worried if Messi left it. We need Messi to be more selfish and more driven by his personal targets in order to keep his game at the highest level. The day Messi leaves a ball like that is the day he starts to go down hill.

 

[Bertus]

Suarez on RW is great. His crosses seem very accurate. Meaning that Dani no longer needs to cross... ever again. Which should increase our chances of winning games.

Still, it's not suarez best role. Suarez is a striker, arguably one of the very best.

It feels like his true potential is not really used so far.

I think every people here wanted him at Barca because he scores lots and lots of goals, not to assist messi and neymar.

And if they wanted him just to assist them, then IMO they picked the wrong player then.

 

[Behrox]

Still, it's not suarez best role. Suarez is a striker, arguably one of the very best.

It feels like his true potential is not really used so far.

I think every people here wanted him at Barca because he scores lots and lots of goals, not to assist messi and neymar.

And if they wanted him just to assist them, then IMO they picked the wrong player then.

He constantly interchanges positions with Messi. Its good that both are comfortable in both the RW and CF/ST role

 

[dakt]

Stiker he is, but can easily exchange positions with Messi...I mean isn't that total football?

 

[Bertus]

He constantly interchanges positions with Messi. Its good that both are comfortable in both the RW and CF/ST role

I hope Suarez is not asked to pass the ball to messi and neymar.

I really hope he's free to score all the goals he wants if he can.

 

[André]

We bought Suarez to score goals. Last season Messi Ney Alexis wasnt enough. Yesterday Suarez didnt have a single shoot.

 

[Sumlit]

Suarez is fine. His goals will come and when they do they'll start pouring in. He's still finding his way in the team.

I'm not worried one bit about Suarez.

Much more concerning is that midfield and defense.

 

[Empty]

Relax.

Simply having Suarez on the RW with the possibility of rotating with Messi positionally is a huge threat to the opposition defense.

Sanchez does not offer a third of the threat Suarez does in the final third.

And honestly, as long as we win, it doesn't matter who scores the goals. The primary objective is VICTORY. Sometimes, the threat of the striker is more important than the goals themselves if that is what gets you the win.

If Suarez occupies so much space that defenders have to deal with him and thus opens up space for Messi and Neymar to score more, what is wrong with that? Conversely, the same can be applied to Messi/Neymar creating space for Suarez to thrive.

The front three should be functionally mercurial. Having a static front-three is like going backwards tactically.

 

[DonAndres]

The positioning of our attack is fine, it's just that we need to improve our transition so that more scoring opportunities can arise. In the second half we played more vertically and had several moments where our attackers had acres of space. It was actually very surprising that Suarez wasn't found too often because he made many good runs that could've turned into goalscoring chances. If we can do that with control more often, the number of chances increases for him and he'll deliver the goals. It'll take a few introductory goals before he can kick into rhythm, it's pretty normal for a new Barca forward to be an assist machine before improving goalscoring form (Neymar had the same phase at the beginning of 13/14).

 

[linetty]

I would have been worried if Messi left it. We need Messi to be more selfish and more driven by his personal targets in order to keep his game at the highest level. The day Messi leaves a ball like that is the day he starts to go down hill.

+1

 

[KingMessi]

Suarez has 3 assists from crosses now. Should teach Alves a thing or two about crossing.

 

[CatalinR10]

or he should be our new rb