Driving to the training ground together, the two families often have weekend parties. Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez are inseparable on and off the field, contributing to bringing Barca to victory.
- Messi assisted, Suarez scored, Barca defeated Valencia in the semi-finals of the King’s Cup first leg
- Messi missed penalty, Barca lost Catalan derby
- Messi scored a masterpiece free kick, Barca widened the gap with Real to… 19 points
Messi and Suarez are ideal friends
Messi and Luis Suarez are conquering a milestone that has not appeared in La Liga for nearly 90 years.
Messi – Suarez, the key to victory
Barca is having the best La Liga start in history, being unbeaten in 21 matches, with 18 of them being victories.
The Catalan team is 11 points ahead of second-place Atletico, 17 points ahead of Valencia, and 19 points ahead of defending champion Real Madrid. Coach Ernesto Valverde is praised for his current achievements, and he is exactly the person Barca needs to maintain its golden period.
Valverde has great achievements, but it will be difficult for him to succeed without two powerful weapons, Messi and Luis Suarez. Barca is accelerating strongly, with a series of 7 consecutive victories in La Liga (5 of which, they scored 3 goals or more).
This is also the second time in the season that Barca has had a series of 7 consecutive victories. Before that, it was a winning record in the first 7 rounds of the season. Among them, the duo Messi – Luis Suarez has a greater contribution than anyone else. This is shown through scoring performance.
Currently, before entering the derby with Espanyol in round 22, Luis Suarez is on a streak of 8 consecutive scoring matches. Luis Suarez has never had such a good scoring streak since leaving Liverpool to join Barca in 2014.
He is the 4th person in Barca history to have scored in at least 8 consecutive matches, after Mariano Martin (1943), Ronaldo (1997) and Messi (2012). The absolute record is Messi’s 21 scoring matches in 2013. In these 8 matches, the Uruguayan player scored 11 goals (with 3 doubles).
Meanwhile, Messi – the leader of the Pichichi race, has scored 5 consecutive matches (6 goals). Thus, Messi and Luis Suarez are scoring goals together in 5 consecutive La Liga matches. We have to go back to the 1930-31 season to see a pair of strikers with this record in La Liga, Bilbao’s Gorostiza (7 goals) and Iraragorri (6 goals). That means it took 88 years for La Liga to record this impressive result.
Messi and Luis Suarez are truly the duo of the century. Since playing together, in four years, they have been involved in 460 goals. No duo in Europe can compare to them.
Messi has 180 goals and 77 assists. Suarez’s record is 139 goals and 64 decisive passes. During this same period, Ronaldo (174 goals + 53 assists) and Benzema (75 + 31) – the best duo that Real Madrid owns, only participated in a total of 333 goals.
Success comes from friendship
Messi and Luis Suarez come from two different countries. Argentine and Uruguayan football are not similar, if not fiercely competitive. The only connection between them is the influence of Spanish culture. This, along with their way of living away from noise to spend time with family, has helped them become good friends.
The couple lives together in Castelldefels, one of the most beautiful areas in Barcelona. Their family often organizes outdoor barbecue parties when on vacation. The wives become close friends, attached to each other in every way.
Every morning, Messi and Luis Suarez drive the same car to the training ground. The inseparable friendship has helped Messi understand Suarez better, and vice versa. Thanks to that, both of them have moves and combinations that make the opponent not know how to attack.
From the friendship between Messi and Luis Suarez, coach Valverde also changed the playing system to make it more convenient for both. The 4-3-3 style of play was changed to 4-4-2, with Messi and Luis Suarez playing highest. Coutinho arrives, and if Dembele recovers, this will be difficult to change. Perhaps, thanks to Neymar leaving, Messi and Luis Suarez are even closer, in life and on the football field.
