Jamie Carragher explains how Luis Suarez cost Liverpool Premier League title

Liverpool target Jamie Carragher reckons Luis Suarez cost the Reds the Premier League title when he bit Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic during a 2-2 draw at Anfield on April 2013. Suarez was banned for 10 matches, meaning he would miss the last four games of the season and the first six of the next. Talking about the draw with Chelsea in 2013, in which Suarez headed a dramatic late equaliser, Carragher told Sky Sports : "I wasn't aware of any of this but got back into the dressing room and then word comes in that Luiz has bitten, Ivanovic. Someone asked him and he denied it. I think about that, that it cost Liverpool the league the next season. "Suarez was banned for five or six games (the following season). Suarez was the best player by a mile in the league - he scored almost every game. In the first four games he missed, Liverpool lost 1-0 to Southampton and drew at Swansea. They dropped five points. "If Suarez is playing, they probably win both of them, but let's be conservative, you beat Southampton at home.  You don't realise at the time, looking back now, and the season he had the next year, player of the year, football writers' player of the year, I think if he'd been playing in those games it would've been different."

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