Just goes to show how stats only tell a partial story. You think they dislike Suarez?
No, of course not, but they probably can see that he's not that confident in his play. He's rushing it when he doesn't need to, and you can also tell from his body language.
I have no beef with his lack of awareness or misplaced passes. Those should improve over time and he makes up a lot with his work rate.
I just can't understand how he manages to miss those sitters.
I guess because we won it's easier to digest it.
Just imagine what this forum would've been like if Messi and Neymar were not making up for it with their amazing goal-scoring runs. I've literally never seen Neymar play better and Messi too is in the form of his life, despite not being at CF. I said it on the Messi thread, but without Leo, Barca would've been in 4th or 5th spot this season.
I hope his passing, touch and awareness improves, but I'd also hoped for the same with Sanchez. But it's clearly not at the level that we expect from Luis Suarez, and I cannot fathom how people are not perplexed by that.
For all that he played a part in two of the three goal scored.
He is there to take the ball in tighter areas and with back to goal you would expect him to lose it more than anyone else. Followed by Messi and Neymar.
That's one thing where he clearly brings something that the team has been lacking for a while now, and I think he's been fulfilling that role really well. But no - that's not where his dispossessions and misplaced passes are occurring - they're usually when he's under no pressure.
As for being involved in the goals, for the second goal, the ball deflected off the goalie to go to Messi, and for the third goal, it was a 5m pass outside the box while falling down. Is that involvement more to do with him being Luis Suarez, or just being the furthest player forward?
