Laylabelle 9,534 Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 His performance is frustrating but my main issue is the antics..no need! Just get on with the game!! When he has got his head in it he is a fab player but when he's pissing around/rolling at the slightest touch sod off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea? 892 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Wouldn't mind replacing him this summer. Whenever he receives the ball, I'm certain he'll lose it. Great season overall but we can do better nono 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,897 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Love him to death but can't shake the feeling that we'd be even better next season with a more technically gifted, top class footballing striker up top instead. Diego is brilliant off the ball and is a world class, deadly finisher but his technical ability is just frankly poor. So many attacking moves are killed at his feet. Not sure who that player would be, though. kellzfresh, Chelsea?, FabHazard and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nono 791 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 5 minutes ago, Pizy said: Love him to death but can't shake the feeling that we'd be even better next season with a more technically gifted, top class footballing striker up top instead. Diego is brilliant off the ball and is a world class, deadly finisher but his technical ability is just frankly poor. So many attacking moves are killed at his feet. Not sure who that player would be, though. If we can sell him to China there will be quite a few options for us to replace him with. Maybe we can get Icardi/Belotti/Dembele etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles 9,790 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Awful performance...as usual. Sometimes he scores a goal but his usual contribution is rubbish. But some people don't care which is frightening. As long as he scores they're happy - they don't care that he breaks down 99% of our moves or that he misses good chances to kill games (two last night). As long as he scores just the ONCE, then all is forgiven. Peace. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leif 6,006 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Ask Atletico fans 'Costa or Griezmann?' and they'll laugh hysterically before answering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's too big 625 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 I would like that Belotti kid. Even Lukaku is better with the ball than Costa, he really is technically poor. Because he scores goals shouldn't give him immunity to criticism of his overall game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiclasCFC 2,582 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 1 hour ago, Leif said: Ask Atletico fans 'Costa or Griezmann?' and they'll laugh hysterically before answering Answer me this mate, how many La liga titles does Griezmann have with Atletico? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leif 6,006 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 9 minutes ago, NiclasCFC said: Answer me this mate, how many La liga titles does Griezmann have with Atletico? He has none, while Costa has 1, just like Mata has none, while Willian has 1. manpe, 11Drogba and Mceachran 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,897 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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. 11Drogba and kellzfresh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellzfresh 7,229 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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 and The Skipper 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe 10,861 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAGreavsie 6,072 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 18 hours ago, Leif said: Foresight is a gift only humans are blessed with How do we know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unionjack 7,531 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quickpassnmove 924 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DYC. 7,542 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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. The Skipper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11Drogba 2,000 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekinjo 449 Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe 10,861 Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 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. MefiX19, The Skipper and kellzfresh 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footballover 222 Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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