Chelsea v Liverpool: Ajax experience will make it easier at anfield, says suarez

Diego Forlan drew on his experience with Manchester United to give Uruguay team-mate Luis Suarez important advice about the Premier League. Happily for the new man in Kenny Dalglish's old No.7 shirt for Liverpool, he ignored it.

Suarez, in line for his full debut at Chelsea today, wondered what to expect in England after arriving from Ajax. "The first thing Diego told me," he recalled, "was to be patient." Forlan went 27 games without a goal on joining United in 2002. Coming on against Stoke in midweek, Suarez was a man in hurry, scoring before the Kop inside 16 minutes.

"The pressure has eased now I've got my first goal," said the 24-year-old. "I think it'll be different for me than it was for Diego. He was young when he arrived from playing in Argentina. It's easy to see why it was tough for him. Coming from Holland I have more knowledge of how the Europeans do things."

The softly-spoken father of a six-month-old baby, Suarez infamously handled a header in last year's World Cup to deny Ghana a last-minute winner and a semi-final place. He insisted the incident proved he was "prepared to do what it takes for the team, even to the point of sacrificing myself".

Then in November he sunk his teeth into the shoulder of PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal, but would not bite when asked about it.

"I've made several statements on that subject, enough to not have to talk about it now," said Suarez, impatient to build on a bright, controversy-free start.