Luis Suárez claims with Uruguay for the “Suárez zone”

Luis Suárez needed a high like that. The striker is not having a good time at Atlético, but the national team changes his mood for the better. In Uruguay he is still a leader and in this break he has taken a large dose of self-esteem for what is to come. The 9 has qualified for the World Cup, probably his goodbye to the national team, and this morning he closed the qualifiers with a claiming and historic goal. A great goal from Chile to Chile, worth the redundancy, to show that his sense of smell is still intact.

The striker appeared in Uruguay after six consecutive substitutions with Atlético. The role change is more than evident, but Diego Alonso, the Uruguayan coach, has continued to give him a leading role. “I arrive with a few minutes and a lot of enthusiasm”, confessed the rojiblanco when joining the concentration. “How nice to be in the national team and to be happy,” he published on his networks, showing the need for this brief change of scenery to feel very relevant again.

Suárez scored in Uruguay’s two games in January (Paraguay and Venezuela) and, in this break, he played 76 minutes against Peru and 61 against Chile (he came on from the bench), scoring a goal to break the 0-0 draw. A goal that makes him the all-time top scorer in the South American qualifiers (29 in 58 games), surpassing his friend Messi. At Atlético he had played 86 minutes in the last six games and has not started since February 19, in Pamplona, ​​where he also scored a great goal from 40 meters.

The great objective of the charrúa since he arrived at the Wanda Metropolitano has been to show that he is still valid. Which has a lot to contribute. He was decisive for the conquest of the last League and, although his weight in the team is not the same anymore, he wants to show that he still has a lot to give. Simeone knows that, although Griezmann, João Félix and Correa give him other things, he cannot underestimate and waste the Uruguayan’s potential, much less now that the season is entering precisely “the Suárez zone”.