Suarez skills takes the centre stage

Last summer’s Fifa World Cup in Brazil was labeled one of the best ever. Goals, drama, tears and surprises all blended together in the football world’s heart. But amidst the glitz, glamour and glory there was one man who left Brazil with his head held low, scrutinised for his actions that were deemed deplorable, and rightly so. Luis Suarez had done it again. While his previous stunt at the 2010 edition of the World Cup, where he was red carded for blocking a goalbound header with his hands against Ghana saw him being lauded and cursed in equal measure, there was no respite for the Uruguayan last summer as he sunk his teeth into the shoulders of Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini. It was third time that the former Ajax man had used his teeth as a weapon in his career.

What followed was a four-month ban from football, an 81 million euro move to Barcelona, which was frowned upon by the purists, and the world pointedly turning its back on a star who had lit up the English Premier League that season. But as he has done many times previously, the striker has once again shown the ability of the phoenix- to rise from the ashes- and has done it at the biggest stage.

Having already poached seven goals in a Barca shirt, the 28-year-old, who always has an element of mischief around him, completed his rise to the top at the El Clasico.

A long ball controlled with the most delicate of touches taking two defenders out of the equation before finding the bottom corner of the goal with precision proved his astonishing ability to conjure magic on the field. The Suarez of old was well and truly back.

The striker has again entered the good books of the pundits with the one thing that makes him worth all the hair pulling moments — his skills with the ball at his feet. Luis Suarez surely has the world at his feet.