Valverde, you have to listen to and learn from Luis Suarez Champions League - FC Barcelona Rotation needed this season

Barcelona are still looking for answers to their humiliating Champions League exit in Rome last year.

It was a comeback that the Catalans were on the wrong end of, and it left a cloud hanging over their LaLiga Santander-winning season.

Messi spoke about that night as one of the toughest in his career, and Luis Suarez has now told RAC1 that he regrets having played in the previous game against Leganes.

That day there were too many starters who had consistently been playing for the first-team, and they then arrived at the Stadio Olimpico unable to react to the physical game imposed on them by Roma.

Everyone must take lessons from what happened, and Suarez says he should not have played.

Maybe he could have spoken to Valverde beforehand, but maybe the coach should have known and taken the decision to rest him, as is also true with Lionel Messi, Ivan Rakitic and Gerard Pique.

The word rotation was quite absent from the Camp Nou last season.

Mistakes are there to learn from though, but the problem is at the beginning of this season rotation is again non-existent.

Valverde is counting on his ideal XI and little else.

Sure, there are some minutes being given to others towards the end, but it's not enough.

The coach wants to wrap things up early and risk little, and the short-term results cannot be argued with: four games, four wins, one trophy and they sit top of the table.

It must be assumed that the rotation will come from now on though, as by March the team will start to show cracks with their star names all in their thirties.