A clean slate for Luis Suarez

The pandemic served so that Luis Suárez could still play league matches with the team this season after his knee injury. The Uruguayan tried to have surgery in order to play the Copa América with his country, but COVID-19 provoked the postponement of it and gave him the chance to return with Barca in the league and Champions League.

His reappearance was slow at first, and surprisingly constant afterwards. He came back as a substitute against Mallorca and Leganes and nobody moved him from the team in the six remaining games, despite proving time and again that physically he was not yet fit.

Without forgetting his enormous class, Suarez lives from his physicality in his performances and that is why it has been so noticed that he is not well. He has missed unimaginable chances for a player of his category and in others, he has been even clumsy and slow.

All of this was compounded by an obvious limp during the games when he did not have to perform passages of play of maximum effort. His quality and eye for goal have kept him afloat and he has even scored five goals after the pandemic, but it seems that he has taken more out of the team than he has contributed.

For all these reasons, Luis Suarez wants to make the most of these days before the match against Napoli to improve physically. According to 'AS', he is working in the gym to recover the spark and make the knee discomfort disappear.

On the horizon, the match against the Italians, and if Barcelona are capable of knocking out Gattuso's men, it will be the final phase in Lisbon where Suárez will try to keep improving away from home, where he long ago lost his way to goal in Europe.