Luis Suárez, goals mean victory

Luis Suárez is already one of Barcelona's biggest historic goalscorers. He is just 4 goals from equaling César, who was, until the arrival of Messi, the top goalscorer in the history of Barcelona. But Suárez has something that few have: his goals are worth their weight in gold.

The Uruguayan has scored 190 goals in 270 matches. He scores a goal every 120 minutes of play. A superb statistic, but the better it is if we dig a little deeper into his data.

He has scored his 190 goals in 134 different matches. He has scored a brace in 29, a hat-trick in 9, and scored four on three occasions. He has scored a single goal in 93 matches. 

They are still barbaric figures, but what hides a statistical layer underneath is even more fascinating. Of the 134 games Suarez has scored in, 120 have been victories.

Almost 90% of the matches which Suárez scores in, Barca win. 12 were draws (8.9%), and only twice were Barca defeated. When he scores, the percentage of defeats is just 1.49%.

The two times that Barca lost when Suárez scored were away from home. Firstly in A Coruña (2-1 to Deportivo on 12th March 2017) and then in Valencia (the famous 5-4 defeat against Levante which prevented Barcelona from ending La Liga unbeaten in 2018).

When Suarez scores, in 98.5% of the matches Barcelona get at least one point, but usually three. Now, with their eyes on the final stretch of the atypical season, Barca look set to recover him for the cause from the very first minute.

And it couldn't have come at a better time, with Messi in cotton wool after his injury this Friday. Suárez, who seemed destined to miss the end of the season due to his operation after the Spanish Super Cup, has returned when Barca's need his goal statistics the most, to put what he will try to make a perfect ending to what was destined to be his best season at Barcelona.