Barcelona superstar Luis Suarez has admitted to suffering of a biting "impulse", whilst claiming he is receiving help for his tendency to bite the opposition, as the Uruguayan nears his return to football after serving out his four-month ban.
The former Liverpool star received the lengthy punishment after sinking his teeth into Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini during the summer World Cup, surprisingly, the third time the 27-year-old has committed this crime, after biting Otman Bakkal back in November 2010, and Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic in April of next year.
Despite appealing his ban to Court of Arbitration for Sport, it was upheld and the player is yet to play a competetive game for his new side, the 1-0 loss to the Azzurri in Brazil being his last.
“I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me,” Suarez revealed. “It is like an impulse, like a reaction.
“Everyone has different ways of defending themselves. In my case, the pressure and tension came out that way. There are other players who react by breaking someone’s leg, or smashing someone’s nose. What happened with Chiellini is seen as worse. I understand why biting is seen so badly.”
With the 27-year-old eligible to take to the field in a competitive game as from October 24th, Suarez could make his La Liga debut when the Catalan giants travel to face Real Madrid in Saturday's highly-anticipated El Clasico clash, as the club's manager Luis Enrique revealed in a pre-match press conference that their number 7 striker will feature in the Santiago Bernabeu encounter.
Blaugrana team-mate Gerard Pique, who remained adament that Suarez will play an influential role in Saturday's El Clasico, confessed to teasing the summer signing during training, saying:
"Of course we have been teasing him a little bit. Last week we had a defensive drill to practise dealing with crosses. He was the attacker and I had to defend against him and two or three times we were fighting to get to the ball first and I’d say, 'Don’t bite me'. He just smiles."
