Luis Suárez and the challenge of the 30 goals by season

Luis Suárez went of the Barça between tears but with the firm purpose to continue marking goals. The start in his new club, the Athletic of Madrid, has been full of lights and the charrúa already outlines like one of the players that more goals will annotate this season.

The Uruguayan of 33 years was accustomed in the Camp Nou to arrive to the highest in what to quantity of goals refers . And it is that at the side of Messi, Suárez turned into the third maximum goleador of the club, with 198 so many, surpassing to legends like Ladislao Kubala, Josep Samitier or Josep Escolà. In his last campaign like blaugrana only annotated 21 goals, to consequence of an operation of the external meniscus of his right knee that kept it moved away of the field by more than six months.

Although the historical requirement in the picture colchonero is not the same that the one who had in the Barcelona, the gunman is in the obligation to surpass distinct challenges and numbers if it wants to turn into one of the most important players of the club. If there is something true, is that has all the possibilities to make history in the Athletic of Madrid and, overcoat, to fulfil a curious prediction his trainer, the Cholo Simeone.

When a player colchonero surpassed the 30 goals to the orders of the Argentinian technician, the club won a title or litigated to the end in all the competitions. It was the case of players like Radamel Falcao, in the season 2011-2012, when Simeone began to do charge of the bench, Diego Coast, in the 2013-2014 with the final of the Champions League in Lisbon or Antoine Griezmann, in 2016 with the final of Saint Siro. All have surpassed with grow this barrier goleadora. The good news for the Cholo, is that Suárez has not gone down of 21 goals by season in the last eight years.

After the goleada in front of the Granada, in which the charrúa annotated two goals, Simeone remembered to the best versions of the players to which has trained: "When had a very good Falcao, very good Coast and very good Griezmann, always approach to compete to the end by everything", remembered the trainer. "Ojalá This give us back to the times when had to the best Falcao, to the best Coast and to the best Griezmann, that always were near of the successes that all the fans especially need and want to", expressed.

The Uruguayan forward, in spite of his age, is a promise for the club and, from his debut, has given signals that it wants to continue to the maximum level. His exert in front of the Granada in the première suspender belt of the colchoneros is the proof. It was the most powerful première of all the era Simeone and is the only player of the club that has marked two goals in his debut from the start of the 21st century.

The cure of the evils of the Athletic?

Although in the second meeting of the Atleti, in front of the Huesca, there were not goals, only will do lacking time so that Luis Suárez show the quality that had in the Barcelona from his arrival. It is true that will not have at the side to his best ally, Lionel Messi, but will have to Joãor Félix, Ángel Correa, Marcos Llorente and Diego Coast, if it finishes remaining in Wanda Metropolitan.

The 'gunman' outlines to cure one of the worst evils of the Atleti: the fault ofgoal . In the past season, annotated 68 so many in 50 parties, what cost him remain out of the Champions League in the quarter-finals, in front of the RB Leipzig of Nagelsmannn, and conform with the third position of LaLiga, very far of the Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Unforgettable career of Luis Suárez in the Barça