Suarez Luis came back to frequent Manchester City by scoring twice as Barcelona took control of their Champions League last 16 tie with a 2-1 away win on Tuesday. Suarez was a persistent issue for City last season, scoring 31 objectives as Liverpool pushed Manuel Pellegrini's group the distance in the title race, and his first-half prop set Barcelona on the route to a rehash of their 4-1 total win over the same adversaries from this time a year ago.
Anyhow Sergio Aguero struck in the 69th moment to give City something to expand on in the second leg on March 18 and they were saved a heavier overcome in stoppage time when Lionel Messi won a punishment taking after a foul by Pablo Zabaleta, just for Joe Hart to spare his spot-kick and for him to head the bounce back wide.
Luis Suare
Luis Suare
An alternate reverberation of a year ago's tie implies that City will fly out to Camp Nou without left-back Gael Clichy, on the other hand, after he took after Martin Demichelis and Zabaleta's illustration from 2014 by getting sent off for two bookable offenses.
Pellegrini had picked a wary methodology when the groups initially met a year back, fielding Alvaro Negredo as a solitary striker and pressing the midfield, however he changed tack drastically for the gathering by utilizing Edin Dzeko in advance nearby Aguero in a dauntless 4-4-2 arrangement.
It was a course of action that disentangled at confounding pace, as the choice to send Fernando as a sole holding midfielder without the suspended Yaya Toure gave Barcelona sections of land of space to surge into.
Vincent Kompany volleyed a lobbed pass from Messi barely wide he could call his own objective, Demichelis obstructed from Messi and Suarez hit the side-netting before Barcelona got through in the sixteenth moment.
Messi's conservative cross struck Kompany on the once again as he secured Suarez's run towards the close post and the previous Liverpool talisman jumped to lash a left-foot shot crosswise over Hart and in.
– Silva tees up Aguero –
Accordingly, Dzeko headed wide from Clichy's cross, yet Barcelona were at that point in control, with Messi unemotionally nutmegging David Silva inside his own particular half without further ado before Suarez hared onto Neymar's pass and constrained Hart to make a sprawling recovery.
The second objective touched base on the half hour and had Messi at its root, the Argentine jinking past three players and discovering Jordi Alba, whose low cross was happily touched home by the sliding Suarez.
Neymar saw a throw hacked off the line by Kompany, Hart spared fearlessly from Messi and Dani Alves hit the bar with a mishit cross, before Samir Nasri at last drew a recovery from going to goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen on the stroke of half-time.
Ter Stegen had fairly more to do in the opening phases of the second half, yet City couldn't change over the starting open doors they made.
Dzeko misused two headed chances — putting one wide and sending an alternate directly at Ter Stegen from six yards out — while the German additionally got a header from Demichelis and saw Aguero shoot a shot simply wide.
Clichy's first booking landed in the 59th moment when he stumbled Ivan Rakitic, presently before City presented Fernandinho for Nasri and Champions League debutant Wilfried Bony set up of Dzeko.
With 21 minutes remaining, Aguero gave City a life saver, assembling a slick back-heel from Silva and ghosting past Gerard Pique before hammering home.
Clichy's second booking, for a maladroit kick at Alves, hosed the state of mind, however Messi's punishment setback gave the home fans inside the Etihad Stadium late