Diego Costa

[Pizy 18,368]

Just think he needs to focus 100% on himself and himself only. Just play football! It seemed as though he had decided from minute 1 last night that he would fight with Rojo all game long and proceeded to do just that. Constantly asking for fouls, diving around, cursing at the refs. He let his personal battles effect his play.

The Diego Costa we saw early in the season is world class. When he's trying to prove his doubters wrong. The Diego Costa of last night and that we've seen a lot of since the January fiasco is a detriment more than a help.

The league isn't over so we really need him to sharpen up.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

36 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Just think he needs to focus 100% on himself and himself only. Just play football! It seemed as though he had decided from minute 1 last night that he would fight with Rojo all game long and proceeded to do just that. Constantly asking for fouls, diving around, cursing at the refs. He let his personal battles effect his play.

The Diego Costa we saw early in the season is world class. When he's trying to prove his doubters wrong. The Diego Costa of last night and that we've seen a lot of since the January fiasco is a detriment more than a help.

The league isn't over so we really need him to sharpen up.

Exactly. He's been poor since 2017.

I knew he had poor ball control, but in the beginning of the season, he used one touch passing to runners a lot instead of holding unto the ball and loosing it these days like torres.

 I hate the fact that he doesn’t know how to open up an angle for a shot. In the 50th and 63rd minutes he had chances to open up the angle and shoot, but instead he tries to dribble more, loses the ball yet again and in the second instance looks for a penalty after taking another touch instead of shooting. 

He's a major reason why it looks like we just pass around the box without penetration. He needs to behave like a striker who love to shoot instead of behaving like a defender afraid of shooting.  

[manpe 10,861]

On 07/03/2017 at 0:13 PM, Polo7 said:

He isnt supposed to start off attacks, he is supposed to finish them. His goals have won us many games this season. Yesterday was another one. I dont care if he cant dribble as well as Hazard or pass like Fabregas. As long as he keeps scoring.

So yesterday was a typical 2017 Costa performance minus the goal. How do you rate it? Your striker isn't going to score every game, when he doesn't he needs to show something else otherwise he becomes detrimental. Yesterday he killed so many chances for us and lost so much possession it was not funny, it was like watching an amateur player, seriously. And the yellow card he picked up was stupid, it started off by him trying a dribble which reminded more of some Benny Hill sketch and then dove in with no chance to get there in time, completely unnecessary. And he knows nobody is going to replace him no matter what he does or doesn't do, except time-waste Batshuayi for the last 3 seconds. That performance yesterday was worse than I thought he could produce. He better get his shit together or China will be his only suitor.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,892]

18 hours ago, Leif said:

Foresight is a gift only humans are blessed with

How do we know?

[Unionjack 7,531]

I love the lad dearly but some stuff he does makes me want to throttle him. Very similar to how Drogs made me feel.

But he was half a secind and half a yard short last night.

I think bith him and Eden would come on stronger with a Sanchez.Lukaku next to them all free and roaming around unable to be marked and I hope thats what we end up doing. They both need balls given them.

[quickpassnmove 924]

19 hours ago, King11Didier said:

 

Hope he can overcome this poor form, because the most importang stage of the season is coming and we need him and his goals.

I can barely watch the remainder of this season because of Diego and even though I feel like we can win the title, there's been no doubt in my mind since the match against Tottenham last fall (when the pundits on TV were calling Diego the better striker compared to Harry), one particular striker has shown why he's the best striker in the league and the other has fallen into old patterns and scored much less (putting December aside in Diego's case).

Tottenham have the better scorers in Kane and Alli, so we know there's a possibility that this title challenge could fall apart for us down the stretch. However, I think Diego would change his behavior for a few matches if the gap between 1st and 2nd narrows. I can -almost- trust Diego for that.

[DYC. 7,542]

7 minutes ago, quickpassnmove said:

I can barely watch the remainder of this season because of Diego and even though I feel like we can win the title, there's been no doubt in my mind since the match against Tottenham last fall (when the pundits on TV were calling Diego the better striker compared to Harry), one particular striker has shown why he's the best striker in the league and the other has fallen into old patterns and scored much less (putting December aside in Diego's case).

Tottenham have the better scorers in Kane and Alli, so we know there's a possibility that this title challenge could fall apart for us down the stretch. However, I think Diego would change his behavior for a few matches if the gap between 1st and 2nd narrows. I can -almost- trust Diego for that.

Oh, please. I heard and read that same nonsense in 14/15. The title is in the bag. They're not giving it away at this point, with a ten point lead.

The question is whether Chelsea can make it a Double and turn 2017 into one of the most succesful years in club history.

[11Drogba 2,000]

I would love to see Lukaku come back and succeed here but I doubt he is the type of striker that Conte wants in his first 11s. He'll probably want Morata, Belotti or someone similar to them.

[zekinjo 449]

It's sad I have to watch Diego every weekend. I really can't tell who's worst between him, Torres and Sheva from Chelsea time.

[manpe 10,861]

1 hour ago, zekinjo said:

It's sad I have to watch Diego every weekend. I really can't tell who's worst between him, Torres and Sheva from Chelsea time.

I know he hasn't been good but that's stretching it. For all his bad overall play, Diego has one of the best if not the best goal scoring ratios in Chelsea. Can't say the same about the other two, especially Torres who was useless all around.

[Footballover 222]

Can't understand what's all the fuss about, and I really don't see a point comparing goal records with the likes of Lukaku and Kane (a discussion that went on here a few pages ago). You need to understand that it's very different playing for Everton or Spurs compared to being the leading striker of a team like Chelsea. So maybe Costa isn't playing like Sanchez or Kane, but if he scores 20 goals or so in a season and it helps us to a title (which we already know is sufficient) then I don't care if he is not in the top five of the leading goalscorers in the league.

Don't know how about you, but I've been craving for such a consistent striker after the downfall of Drogba which was not long after the Double. I think we need to be very happy that we have him and we shouldn't look at the neighbour's lawn and wonder if it is indeed greener. He is playing like a non league striker for the last 3 months and we still have a 10 points lead and we are in the semi final of the FA cup. I really can't see how people compare him with Torres or Shevchenko. 

I would love to have someone like Aguero/Sanchez/Lewa up front instead of him but I really can't see it happening any time soon. For now, I am actually pretty OK with having him as our leading striker, but I do agree he is not good enough for us to become world beaters. Anyhow, I will love having a season like this one every term, even if we are not THE best. 

[Special Juan 27,429]

Really do not get the Pogba levels of criticism he's getting and I understand he hasn't been brilliant but seriously.

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

1 hour ago, zekinjo said:

It's sad I have to watch Diego every weekend. I really can't tell who's worst between him, Torres and Sheva from Chelsea time.

What...? At the very least Diego Costa is still scoring and doesn't allow his drought to grow to hours and counting. He is in horrible form but still scores quite regularly and we can look forward to him getting into form. While with Nando and Sheva there was little to no hope. 

Nonetheless, Diego should really start hitting some form, come on, he's at his peak and doesn't have health issues, has proper rest so what's the hold up? 

[cfcs most wanted 657]

I don't think that Costa is a really good striker for our club. In football nowadays you can't just have a strong finisher only with no other qualities, no good passing, skill, speed etc. We need more of a Aubameyang and Griezmann type of player.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

6 hours ago, zekinjo said:

It's sad I have to watch Diego every weekend. I really can't tell who's worst between him, Torres and Sheva from Chelsea time.

Torres? He's worse than Hitler!

No seriously, come on... 

[Styles 9,790]

7 minutes ago, CHOULO19 said:

Torres? He's worse than Hitler!

No seriously, come on... 

General all-round play and ability, Costa is just as bad (if not worse) than Torres and Sheva were at Chelsea.

He is responsible for so many turnovers and moves breaking down that you wonder how much better we'd be if we had a competent footballer in his place.

[Leif 6,006]

Torres, at his worst, passed the ball better & ran a whole lot more than Costa. At his worst, his dribbling ability wasn't any worse than Costa's. At his worst, he'd keep the ball in his feet roughly the same length as Costa (not a good thing; Torres learned to shoot quicker again in the end, though.) This is comparing Torres at his worst with Costa at his best.

The only thing Torres at his worst, didn't have which Costa does, is the finishing. Other than finishing, Torres wasn't good for us because, he started going down too easily, couldn't dribble 'well', couldn't anticipate the players around him / make smart runs etc, and that was roughly it. All of which Costa is equally bad at. Torres was better in the air.

Costa is obviously far more valuable, when he's scoring, than Torres ever was for us, but, when Costa's at his worst, he equals our borderline worst ever player. That isn't good enough for your striker. When a top striker's having an off period, he should still be better than 90% of the strikers around. But when Costa's off, 90% of the strikers around are better than him. You can't say that about Lewandowski/Suarez/Aguero/Ibra when they're not scoring, they still end up being the best player for their side.

[Gilvorak 3,734]

You know you're playing like shit if your only defense is bringing up players we signed 6 & 11 years ago.