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I still can't wait for Pedro and Hazard to both be at their best in top form at the same time! we would be unplayable.

A win's a win LOL. I knew it wouldn't take you long to contradict yourself. In the Costa thread you are talking about morals and then here you are saying a win's a win. Oh dear.

So do you class diving, constant fouling, surrounding the referee, waving imaginary cards and disrespecting officials as acceptable behaviour?

you have completely missed the point, I never said its ok to hit people, but these physical altercations happen all the time in football, so no Costa's behaviour wasn't disgusting just foolish, but he gave as good as he got. it was a nothing incident compared to much worse altercations that have gone unpunished over the years.

LOL you are acting like Costa does these things for no reason, we couldn't see everything what happened before that but I am sure the two Arsenal CB's gave as good as they got, they would have been getting physical with Costa both on and off the ball, maybe you would just let a CB bully you, Costa doesn't, so if you want to take the moral high ground and act like you wish all Chelsea players were angels who never dive, foul or argue then that's up to you, but you need to realise football isn't the sport for you, whether you like it or not every team has players who dive, foul a lot, surround referees, asks for players to be booked by waving imaginary yellow cards, time waste and disrespect officials. So taking the moral high ground makes no sense to me at all, Arsenal players do all of the above like any team, no team is perfect, so keep acting like Costa is a monster if it makes you feel better, and continue to ignore the next time Sanchez dives or the next time Coquelin decides to chop someone down from behind to stop a counter attack, or the next time Arsenal players surround the referee, and the same applies to Chelsea, I hope you now stay consistent and don't contradict yourself, you talk about morals well I expect to see you complain after 90% of our wins this season, as I am sure some of the above things will happen, and I expect you to call out other teams who do these things also and not praise them, we will see.

I wasn't praising him for touching Koscienly's face, I simply don't think its a big deal, certainly not big or bad enough to be banned retrospectively. how on earth does it show we can't beat them with 11 men? you don't know what would have happened if it stayed 11v11 fact is we were the better team before the sending off and should have had a penalty. and what kind of logic is that? no one said because football is a contact sport, Costa shouldn't have been sent off, the point is these things happen in football, physical altercations happen all the time, I have seen much worse incidents that have gone unpunished, get over it.

disgusting behaviour??? man up this isn't croquet, football is a contact sport, what Costa done today was nothing more then handbags, was Koscielny badly injured? is his face now in need of plastic surgery? NO! it was a nothing incident, with nothing disgusting about it. and no if you could read I clearly said he has had a brilliant career SO FAR. fact is Costa is 26 years old and since his knee injury in 2011, his career has been outstanding, and will get even better. as for our reputation we have been hated for over a decade now, we are known as many things most of which are not true, none of that stuff bother me as I know what this club is really about, and most of the negativity towards us comes from bitter people, you are clearly way too sensitive and negative, today has been a great day for Chelsea, you can focus on the negatives if you want I will focus on the positives, so lets just leave it at that.

last season he was the same, and Costa has 2 goals in 7 games so far in all competitions, not great but a lot was down to how bad we was playing as a team. I am not worried as Costa has consistently scored goals for many years now, judge his goal tally at the end of the season not after 7 games.

how many games in Costa's career has he missed due to suspension? exactly. and what exactly is terribly bad that has been turned into a positive? just because I dont have meltdowns and am not fickle doesn't mean I turn everything into a positive, I am calm about our start as I don't rate Man City as highly as the fickle fans who thought they were invisible because they started off well, I have seen it before with us, have a great start to the season, then implode, I don't panic so easily like yourself. Costa has behaved the same his whole career, and at 26 years old, he has had a brilliant career so far, so keep acting like Costa is a terrible person, I will keep supporting him, as will José, as will his teammates and as will most Chelsea fans.

he has scored 79 goals since 2012/13 more then Aguero, and Costa didn't even play as a striker in 2012/13. He has acted the same way the whole time.

Costa mentally destroyed him! Gabriel won't sleep well tonight.

I love Costa's antics, he thrives on being the villain, and it works for him, so why change? barely any players in world football over the last 3 seasons have done as well as Costa has, so again why should he change? its not like he gets sent off every other week, he is clever and enjoys being a troll, like some on here do. People act like they have never seen this before, plenty of players past and present behave similar to Costa, if you dont like it, you are just going to have to deal with it, because Costa isn't going to change, and I dont see any reason why he should.

This team should get the job done. Begovic Azpilicueta - Djilobodji - Terry - Baba Loftus-Cheek - Ramires Kenedy - Traore - Remy Falcao

I was actually thinking about that the other day, he one day will want to manage England I am sure he would love to learn from José. If Steve Holland decides he wants to become a manager next season I wouldn't mind Neville at Chelsea.

100% agree

where are all them people gone who said even when Aguero doesn't score he still contributes to his team? anonymous once again.

I did see it, but what has that got to do with my original question?

only Yaya Toure had a lower pass % for City then KdB

so I will take that as a no then.

what a surprise City lose with De Bryune playing as their playmaker, did he even create any good chances from open play?

got beat at his near post once again! bang average GK now!

brilliant again, looks like he is getting back to his best.

Clearly lost the dressing room, clearly an overrated manager. Sack him.

As Pedro and Willian are out Begovic Azpilicueta - Cahill - Zouma - Baba Loftus-Cheek - Matic Oscar - Fabregas - Hazard Costa

He showed his awful technique again, on his goal tonight?