"It's true that Suarez' absence has hit him hard. 'We have spoken about it,' the Uruguayan explained in an interview with RAC1 last week. 'It is much easier for him when he plays behind a number nine who is occupying the centre-backs.'
Messi always played without a centre-forward before Suarez arrived in 2014. But when flanked by first Samuel Eto'o and Thierry Henry, and then by David Villa and Pedro, he had wide players who played high on the shoulders of the last defender, forcing teams back, opening space up. Messi played off them and with them in the space that they created it. There is none of that now."
Aint that the truth.