Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini says that he has put behind the incident involving Luis Suarez at the World Cup 2014.

The two players will be coming face-to-face against each other for the first time since the high-profile incident during the tournament in Brazil when Suarez was found guilty of bitingChiellini. This subsequently earned the Uruguayan footballer a four-month ban from all forms of football. This prevented him from making his debut for Barcelona for almost three months. After making a slow start to his career at the Camp Nou, Suarez has been an integral part in Barcelona claiming the league title.

The striker has formed an impeccable partnership with Neymar and Lionel Messi. He has already provided almost 15 goals to these forwards just through assists aside from scoring several more himself. Juventus qualified for the Champions League final for the first time since 2003 after beating Real Madrid in the semifinals. They could only narrowly beat the Spanish club whereas Barcelona eased past Bayern Munich. The partnership between Messi, Suarez, and Neymar has been so good, but the media have also been focusing on the meeting betweenChiellini and Suarez. The Italian international says that it is time the media stopped thinking about the personal duel and start focusing on the match as a whole.

“We beat Real Madrid last week and all that people ask me about is Luis Suarez. There are no problems as far as I’m concerned. I don’t bear a grudge. I’ll mark him just like I marked [Karim] Benzema, and like I will mark [Lionel] Messi, and like I did with Cristiano Ronaldo, and Neymar like with [Gareth] Bale. It makes no difference — just that it happened. The only thing I was truly upset about was getting knocked out of the World Cup,” said Chiellini.