Liverpool hero Jamie Carragher has lifted the lid on the aftermath of Luis Suarez's biting incident with former Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic in 2013.

The Uruguayan striker was handed a ten-game ban in April 2013 after biting the Chelsea defender.

"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.

"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 effected Liverpool more next season as there wasn't too much riding on that season before."

He added: "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."