9 - Luis Suárez - v1

[dakt]

Come on Luis!!!

 

[messi2140]

His touches have been atrocious so far. Hope gets a goal today. Still a good game from him.

 

[dakt]

Yep, many mistakes...but gave an assist from mission impossible.

 

[Frejsgodes]

Bad touches. Hopefully getting more confident by scoring a goal.

 

[Egert]

He will score tomorrow.

 

[spark]

He will score tomorrow.

 

[Barcaman]

Finally a goal at Camp Nou

 

[BarcaGirl]

Congrats Luis on your first goal at Camp Nou. Many more to follow ..

 

[instinct]

Some sloppy touches and misplaced passes but a good game nonetheless. His movement is incredible.

 

[raskolnikov]

Barca's style is difficult, you have to be technically perfect to fit in, one wrong touch and it ruins and attack.
Suarez really trying so hard though, happy for him he got the goal and assist.

 

[Irish_Cules]

Some sloppy touches and misplaced passes but a good game nonetheless. His movement is incredible.

This.

A fair few sloppy touches but overall he really played well. His presence on the pitch and his movement are a huge bonus in themselves.

 

[blaugrana1987]

Yea few touches were sloppy but he tries very hard maneuvers tbh. Sometimes they don't work out perfectly, but few times they do, we are scoring for sure.

 

[hamad138]

He was shocking. Good that messi gifted him his goal, he shall get confidence now

Now he will unleash his full talent

 

[CatalinR10]

meh....


still great that he assisted and scored

 

[Empty]

Another point of having a trident/front-three is the fact they are all still human beings; we cannot expect all three to be firing on all cylinders, or in high gear every game.

Suarez had a bit of an off day today, his touches were sometimes poor--that's when we needed a bit of magic from Messi and Neymar, which we got.

Even two of these three in full beast mode is enough to overcome some of the toughest opponents, IMO. And I'd rather have Suarez slightly off the mark than either Neymar or Messi, because of his position and his sheer physicality: even without beast mode, he still draws defenders, makes runs, occupies space, and provides an attacking pivot as a back-to-goal striker/target man.

Neymar, for example, do not provide these elements when he is having an off day. Neymar's off day involves losing the ball and failing dribbles and disrupting the attacking rhythm. Messi's off day is typically just bad news all around.