Suarez reveals that Messi was behind decision for him to play as central striker [Cadena Cope]

Luis Suarez paid a visit to the Cadena Cope studios last night, for an interesting interview with El Partido de las 12 (listen here).

The Uruguayan, whose looking more and more at home in Barcelona with every passing game, spoke openly and candidly, and revealed some interesting tidbits.

The most interesting of which is the reason behind his re-positioning in the forward line, from a wide striker to the central striker.

Once his biting ban was completed and Suarez was finally free to play for his new club, he began in the wide right position of a front three, with Messi playing centrally, and Neymar playing on the left.

But of late, Suarez has taken up the central role, and his goal ratio has increased in kind.

He revealed how that change came about, and surprisingly, it was following a casual conversation with Leo Messi on the pitch in an unspecified game:

‘Honestly, I just ended up in the central position during a game by chance, and Leo said to me: ”Stay there.” Afterwards the coach saw that we’d come up with a good solution by ourselves, and we started trying it out. No one officially took the decision, but obviously from then on it was the coach who started putting me as number 9.’ (Via Sport)