Suarez, Messi, Neymar: Inside Barcelona's Unstoppable Strikeforce (Luca Caioli)

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Luis Suarez’s transfer to FC Barcelona late in the summer of 2014 had seen manager Luis Enrique shifting Barcelona’s successful false 9 Lionel Messi to the right-wing, while Suarez was asked to position as the traditional number 9. What was Messi, Neymar, Suarez’s best season? Lionel Messi’s goal ratio was slightly less than one per game when the trio played together in the team. The disappointing end to his time at PSG meant he left with a question as to whether his spell there hampered his legacy.

By the semi-finals, it was the turn of Guardiola's Bayern to take one for the team. They held their own for the most part until Messi decided to do Messi things. He came up with a double, the second of which saw him snap Jerome Boateng's ankles with an impossibly deft turn, before dinking the ball over Manuel Neuer as if it was nothing.MSN have scored 90 goals this season in all competitions. Messi leads the way with 43, making him the top scorer in both LaLiga and the Champions League. Suárez is second with 32 strikes and he has opened the scoring in the Catalans’ last five games. Neymar Jr isn’t far behind having recently scored his fifteenth of the season and 100th in a Barça shirt. The club underwent significant changes ahead of the 2014-15 season. They roped in Luis Enrique as their new manager for the campaign and had a mass exodus headlined by big names like Alexis Sanchez and Francesc Fabregas moving to the English Premier League. The list of arrivals was long as well with two names outshining the rest – Luis Suarez from Liverpool and Ivan Rakitic from Sevilla. This season, the treble is on again, with Barcelona five points clear in the league, set to face Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final – and Guardiola’s Bayern Munich in the semi-finals of the Champions League. As for Barcelona, they always had world class players supporting Lionel Messi. Players like Samuel Eto’o, Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Alexis Sanchez, David Villa and Pedro Rodriguez were the notable names who played alongside the Argentine. However, his support cast changed to the main cast after the arrival of two South American superstars. Neymar Jr was the first to join in 2013 and a year later, Luis Suarez joined the Catalans to complete the trio. After two years with PSG, Neymar was linked with a return to Barcelona and the summer of 2019 was dominated by rumours of his potential departure.

It is the latest chapter in a career of highs and lows. Here, BBC Sport charts Neymar's journey from Santos to Saudi Arabia. Neymar shirts are already in demand in Saudi Arabia 2009 - Senior debut at Santos I am convinced that here I can continue to grow within a club that gives itself all the means to perform at the highest level.We tried everything and worked day and night," their team-mate Kylian Mbappe said after the first-leg loss at home to Bayern. "We managed to play a part of the game. It wasn’t what I wanted. I always want to play. But sometimes you have to make do with what you can do. Today, I could only do that."