Luis Suarez's difficult start when it comes to goals
The Uruguayan striker didn't net in Spanish Super Cup or La Liga start
Luis Suarez has started the season without a goal in the Spanish Super Cup or in the first La Liga match, but nothing in the Uruguayan is making the technical team afraid.
Like all strikers, Suarez is a player of streaks and the club are convinced that when he scores his first goal of the season, many more will come.
The Barca No 9 has shown on various occasions he's a 'diesel' goalscorer. It takes him time to start, but when he does, he's unstoppable. The best example is 2014, a World Cup year like 2018, when he arrived at Barca under a FIFA ban. He started playing in October but failed to score in La Liga until two months later, against Cordoba.
In the Champions League his barren spell was less long, netting three weeks later against Apoel.
In the 2015-16 season Suarez started quicker, netting in the first game at the San Mames and first Champions League game against Roma, as well as in the European Super Cup, the first official game of the season.
In 2016 he started well too, netting in the first games in the Super Cup, Liga and Champions League (Sevilla, Betis and Celtic respectively).
COMPLEX START
Last year things were different. He ddi not score in the Spanish Super Cup against Madrid in either leg. A knee injury kept him out of the first two games of La Liga, but he scored in the third against Espanyol. And in the Champions League he did not strike until April, in the first leg of the quarter-final against Roma.
Suarez has 152 goals in 200 games for Barca. His average (0.76 per game) puts im up there with the all-time best forwards in the team's history. Messi has 0.86 per game. He is also close to entering the top five goalscorers of all-time. Top is Messi (554 goals), followed by César (232), Kubala (194), Samitier (184) and Escolà (158).
