The Uruguayan has scored a league-leading 37 goals this season, and is a large part of the reason why the Blaugrana enter the final weekend on top of the La Liga table.
But as his second season in Catalonia winds down, the 29-year-old
said that he had low expectations after transferring from Liverpool.
"I never imagined that I would be scoring goals here, I never felt I
would adapt to this team's style of play the way I have," he explained
in an interview with ESPN.
"Sometimes they start the moves and I think that I can't do that,
that they will play it like that and I will just push it [toward the
goal].
Suarez scored twice against Espanyol last weekend to retain a four
goal lead over Cristiano Ronaldo in the race for the Pichichi trophy.
He has 11 goals in his last four matches, but attributed his recent form to the unselfish play of his fellow strikers.
"The entire team deserves the credit for my streak," he said.
"Now my teammates look for me because they know I am in the running.
Leo [Messi] and Neymar give me the penalty kicks, which shows that
the team sees what I am capable of over these last few games and they
want me to score."
Barcelona need to win their final match of the season at Granada on Saturday to clinch a second-straight La Liga title.
"Winning now depends upon us, and we are aware that we are one match
away from winning the league, which was our main goal from the beginning
of the season," Suarez said.
"In February people said, 'well, now you have La Liga wrapped up and you can go after the Champions League.'
"But then we had that dip in form and that's football, we didn't win and then we knew our nice lead was lost.
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