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Luis Suarez 's international skipper Diego Lugano has described the Liverpool FC striker's four-month ban as an act of 'barbarity' that breaches the player's human rights.

Fifa suspended Suarez from all football-related activity until the end of October after he bit Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during Uruguay's final group game on Tuesday.

La Celeste struggled in his absence as they were comfortably beaten 2-0 by Colombia in their second round match.

And after the defeat Lugano lashed out at Fifa for imposing the record ban.

“It’s a breach of human rights that a player cannot go into a stadium where there are 80,000 people or into a hotel with his team-mates, that he cannot work for four months,” the Uruguay captain said.

“He has committed a crime, but this is barbarity. Not even a criminal would receive this penalty.”

Relying on the waning powers of 35-year-old Diego Forlan and Edinson Cavani, who failed to replicate the same impact as he did against England when he played alongside Suarez, Uruguay suffered.

And Lugano believes the national side were always up against it to make the quarter-finals without their talisman to spearhead the attack.

“He is irreplaceable,” the former West Brom defender said of Reds forward.

“Against Colombia we weren’t able to replace the skills he has. For years he has been our best player.

"Us losing him is much worse even than Brazil losing Neymar or Argentina losing Messi.”

Prior to the game, Suarez's shirt was hung up in the team's changing room as an act of defiant support.

But despite all the buildup to the game centring on the Suarez saga, Cavani insisted it had not proved to be too much of a distraction.

“From the moment we knew about the sanction, we only thought about Colombia,” the Paris St-Germain striker said.

“We knew it was a tough penalty, both for him and for us, but from that moment we separated ourselves from it and we concentrated on our players.”

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