Luis Suarez: 'Barcelona punished for failing to take chances'

Barcelona striker Luis Suarez has claimed that his side can have no real complaints following their 1-1 draw with Real Madrid at Camp Nou.

The Uruguayan opened the scoring shortly into the second half of the season's first El Clasico with a close-range header, which the hosts failed to add to despite creating a couple of chances.

Neymar's shot over the bar following a nice piece of trickery proved to be the best opening of the lot, but the profligate nature of Barca's play came back to haunt them in the end as Sergio Ramos scored a late header to keep intact Los Blancos' six-point lead over their title rivals.

"I think we were superior and we created a lot of chances but when you don't finish and kill the game off, this can happen to you," he is quoted as saying by Marca. "We lost two points, we did our best to take all three but in football these things happen, they came good right at the end."

Barcelona will end the weekend second in the La Liga standings, with games against Osasuna and city rivals Espanyol to come before the month-long winter break.