Barcelona vs Levante: 5 Talking Points

#3 Luis Suarez silences critics early on in 2018

Suarez scored a spectacular goal

Luis Suarez has been doing the thing he does best - score goals and lots of them - but over the past year and a half or so he's been doing it mainly thanks to his poaching instincts rather than his own supernatural skill.

He's lost a yard of pace, his dribbling doesn't have the pizzazz of old and there's always the sneaky suspicion around him that were it not for Leo Messi's ethereal genius, he'd be about as effective as Karim Benzema is at Real Madrid at the moment.

Against Levante, though, he scored a goal of the highest order - an acrobatic half-volley taken with the ball at the nearly-chest level, making it his sixth in the last seven league games for Barca.

If he continues on like this, 2018 could be a very different year for the great Uruguayan and we'd be talking about him in the same breath as the Lewandowskis and the Kanes of the world!