Luis Suarez shrugged off the absence of strike partners Lionel Messi and Neymar with a hat trick to send Barcelona into the Club World Cup final with a 3-0 win over China's Guangzhou Evergrande on Thursday.
Barcelona, which is looking to claim its third world title in seven years this week in Japan, went into the match without superstar forwards Neymar, who has a groin injury, and Messi, who woke up on Thursday morning with renal colic, a type of abdominal pain commonly caused by kidney stones.
Uruguayan Suarez simply picked up the slack in their absence at Nissan Stadium, opening the scoring in the 39th minute before adding two second-half goals to send the European champions into a final showdown with Argentina's River Plate on Sunday.
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