Barcelona are in 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 of their own 運命 with Luis Suarez 供給するing much needed sting in attack と一緒に Lionel Messi

Luis Suarez left the field a loser last October in his first ever Clasico but on Sunday night he walked off the pitch a man who had put the league 肩書を与える within touching distance of his team ? some way to 示す your first ever home game against Real Madrid.

‘That’s why we paid a lot of money for him, he compliments what we already have,’ said Luis Enrique of a 業績/成果 and a goal that meant even though Real Madrid had 首尾よく subdued Lionel Messi they still lost the game.

The Barcelona squad have plenty of players who float like バタフライs, but at times over the last few seasons what they have really needed was someone who could sting like a bee ? Luis Suarez did 正確に/まさに that on Sunday night.

Luis Suarez celebrates after scoring for Barcelona in his first ever home match against Real Madrid?

Luis Suarez celebrates after 得点する/非難する/20ing for Barcelona in his first ever home match against Real Madrid ?

Suarez gets the better of Real Madrid pair Pepe (left) and Sergio Ramos to score for Barcelona on Sunday

Suarez gets the better of Real Madrid pair Pepe (left) and Sergio Ramos to 得点する/非難する/20 for Barcelona on Sunday

It wasn’t やめる the 3-1 勝利,勝つ that earlier in the season Real Madrid (打撃,刑罰などを)与えるd on Barcelona ? and that could still 事柄 if the two teams finish level on points such is the 長,率いる-to-長,率いる goal-difference 支配する in Spain ? but it was still some 業績/成果 and some 勝利,勝つ. And what a difference five months had made.


That Santiago Bernabeu Clasico was Suarez’s debut after his Fifa 禁止(する) for biting Georgio Cheillini had ended. He made an almost instant 衝撃 setting up Neymar to 得点する/非難する/20 after just four minutes. He then laid another golden 適切な時期 on a plate for Messi only to see it 行方不明になるd and Real Madrid come 支援する into the game and 勝利,勝つ it 3-1. On Sunday night the impa ct was not so instant but it was 継続している.

Luis Enrique will also have made a 公式文書,認める of how two other new 調印s who were both still bedding-in last October were also very important in the 勝利,勝つ. He had 主張するd on the club 調印 Real Sociedad keeper Claudio Bravo and he was 優れた, making brilliant saves from Karim Benzema at both ends of the second half.

Jeremy Mathieu, 一方/合間, was the ありそうもない scorer of the first goal.?

‘I have been 押し進めるing myself to get my first goal for the club and finally it comes in the biggest game’ he said. He was also 優れた defensively と一緒に an 巨大な Gerard Pique.

Suarez is crowded out during his first-ever El Clasico match at the Bernabeu as Barcelona lost 3-1 in October

Suarez is (人が)群がるd out during his first-ever El Clasico match at the Bernabeu as Barcelona lost 3-1 in October

Defender Jeremy Mathieu celebrates with his Barcelona team-mates after giving his team the lead

Defender Jeremy Mathieu celebrates with his Barcelona team-mates after giving his team the lead

Luis Enrique was questioned for requesting the 調印 of Mathieu ? a 30-year-old defender with a ?20m price tag was always going to have a hard 職業 納得させるing 支持者s but Sunday night’s 陳列する,発揮する will have gone a long way to doing that.

For Suarez the 納得させるing had already been done with those two 決定的な goals at the Etihad that made sure Manchester City were 小衝突d aside by Barcelona in the 支持する/優勝者s League. Sunday night’s finishing told 支持者s nothing they didn’t already know.

There is a phrase ? ‘mig-toc’ ? coined by former Barcelona player and coach Charly Rexach which means ‘half-touch’ and is meant to 述べる Barcelonaa’s passing game as something one step beyond one-touch.

Suarez is congratulated by his team-mates as his goal pushed Barcelona closer to the La Liga title?

Suarez is congratulated by his team-mates as his goal 押し進めるd Barcelona closer to the La Liga 肩書を与える?

Suarez has that same 速度(を上げる) of touch, not in his passing, but in his finishing. The 支配(する)/統制する and 発射 past Iker Casillas seemed to be part of one movement that happened far too quickly for the Spain keeper and Real defender Pepe to do anything about.

He is not the first to 得点する/非難する/20 in his first Nou (軍の)野営地,陣営 Clasico. Other big 調印s such as Gary Lineker, Diego Maradona, Romario, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Samuel Eto’o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic all did likewise. Not all their goals were 価値(がある) La Liga 肩書を与えるs however.

‘There is still an eternity to go’ said Javier Mascherano after Sunday night’s game and while 10 matches is little more than a 4半期/4分の1 of a season it is true that so much can still happen, 特に as Barcelona must travel to Atletico Madrid and Sevilla before the season ends.

But Barcelona are now in 支配(する)/統制する of their own 運命 and in Suarez they have someone 絶対 決定するd not to finish second this season as he did last year with Liverpool.

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