Suarez tried to deny biting Ivanovic after Chelsea, Liverpool clash - Jamie Carragher

Former Liverpool player, Jamie Carragher has revealed that Luis Suarez tried to deny biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic during a 2-2 draw at Anfield in 2013.

The incident earned Suarez a 10-match ban and made Liverpool miss out on the EPL title the following season.

That wasn't the first time the Uruguayan had been penalized for such, Three years before the incident with Ivanovic, Suarez was penalized for biting PSV's Otman Bakkal during his time at Ajax.

On the incident with Ivanovic, Carragher stated that Suarez played dumb about it when the teams returned to the dressing rooms.

“When he came in the dressing room, Luis Suarez actually denied it at first, probably hoping the cameras hadn't picked it up!” Carragher told Sky Sports' The Football Show.

“I think it had a massive effect on Liverpool next season because Suarez got a seven, eight-game ban (sic).

“I think he missed the first four or five games the following season when Liverpool almost won the title - Suarez was their best player.

“There was two games that Liverpool dropped points in, I think they lost to Southampton 1-0 and drew away at Swansea so five points dropped in the first four or five games and Luis Suarez didn't play.

“The form he was in that season, there was a good chance he might have turned one of those games. That act and the ban he got probably affected Liverpool more next season as there wasn't too much riding on that season before.

“He did it before at Ajax before he came, there was a situation after which pushed Liverpool to move him on, he wanted to go to Barcelona anyway and something happened at the World Cup.

“He gets frustrated, I've played alongside him, you know it's wrong but you come out and defend your player and try to stick together as a club and support him. I think it affected him at the time.”