Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva has hailed Luis Suarez's focus to ignore abuse from the stands and insisted that his teammate is unmoved by media attention surrounding his style of play.

Lucas is a close ally of Suarez in the Liverpool dressing room and believes that the Uruguayan striker will continue to take hostile treatment from opposition supporters in his stride.

He told the Daily Mail: "He gets it at every stadium, so this is just one more for him. He copes very well with it and if people still criticise him for everything, he keeps on scoring goals.

"It's not nice to see a player, a friend, get that amount of abuse but that's the way it is. But he's showing his quality on the pitch and that's the most important thing.

"It doesn't seem to worry him too much. If it did, it would have affected him on the pitch."

Suarez goes up against an old rival this afternoon when the Reds travel to Old Trafford to face Manchester United.