Diego Costa

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Great news from Jose in the press conference! Apparently, Costa is now 100% injury free hopefully meaning the talk of him needing a surgery was nonsense.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Injury free Costa

beware, WBA, beware

[Special Juan 27,385]

The monster just got more hungry.

[Madmax 9,219]

Great news from Jose in the press conference! Apparently, Costa is now 100% injury free hopefully meaning the talk of him needing a surgery was nonsense.

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Full detail of what Jose said about Costa

Diego Costa's injury problems are in the past, says Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho

Jose Mourinho has declared Diego Costa finally free of the hamstring injury that has dogged his Chelsea career but admitted to concerns about how he would cope with their “incredible marathon” of games for the rest of 2014.

Costa is expected to start Saturday’s game with West Bromwich Albion after being excused Spain duty during the international break in order to fully address a problem that has blighted his otherwise explosive start to life in English football.

But his manager admitted a run of 12 matches in less than six weeks would be a culture shock for his star striker, who is used to having Christmas off.

“Now we are going to have a period that is new for him,” he said. “I believe the Christmas period for players doing it for the first time in their careers is more difficult.

“The English players, or those who have been here for many years, are more physically and mentally adapted and prepared to cope with the special incredible marathon of football we face.

“He had a little holiday, with a Chelsea physio, for two weeks so even then he was working many hours per day with our physio.

“After that, he came back, he keeps going in the right direction. We feel he’s free of his old injury.”

Mourinho revealed he had already warned Costa, who has scored 10 goals in nine Premier League games, of the unique demands of the festive period.

“We spoke yesterday about it,” he said, before pointing out that the 26-year-old was one yellow card away from a suspension.

“Am I going to protect him? No way. He plays. When he’s fit, he plays. When he gets the fifth yellow card ... I am not thinking about Sunderland, Newcastle or Stoke. I am thinking just about the next match. We go match by match, but the way he trains and expresses himself in training, he has a free mind.

“He’s free of fears at this moment. He’s good at this moment.”

The same may not be true of his team-mate for club and country, Cesc Fabregas, who trained on Friday following a thigh injury that also saw him sit out Spain duty.

“Hopefully, he can play because it’s a very important game for us,” Mourinho said.

The Portuguese also claimed to have received no bids for goalkeeper Petr Cech, despite interest from Arsenal, Real Madrid, AC Milan and Paris St Germain.

“I have zero, zero proposals,” he said.

And he refused to be drawn on the likely atmosphere at Saturday’s game, Chelsea’s first at home since Mourinho criticised the lack of noise at Stamford Bridge.

He added: “My job is not to criticise the stadium, which I did. That is not my job, and I don’t want to make any more comments about that.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/11245774/Diego-Costas-injury-problems-are-in-the-past-says-Chelsea-manager-Jose-Mourinho.html

[Billy. 2,742]

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Costa meet Dunga at Cobham

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Costa

[lucio 5,418]

anyone else thought it was him who got sent off?

[Barbara 15,149]

His chance conversion continues to be unbelievable, though he had a couple of unlucky shots today that could have added to his goal average.

11 goals in 10 matches is unbelievable and I think if he received more the ball he'd be even better. Sometimes it feels like our AMs are too focused on passing, setting up the play or just taking shots themselves to catch him moving. His movement is always so amazing. I feel like once we really mature as a team (we aren't there yet) he'll score even more. We'll play nonstop now til the end of March when there's the next International break. I feel like the team will progress a lot in those months, with the matches piling up. The players will have even a better understanding between them and one of the players to benefit the most about it will be Costa imo.

His goal was so nicely taken, he's so precise, so direct. It's such a blessing to have this guy playing for us. I hope we start feeding him more as time passes (we did it very well in the first, but I feel in the second, we didn't give him too much to do).

[zolayes 14,489]

If he had been with us last year we would have won the league ,,, BUT perhaps then we wouldnt have signed Cesc and would have

kept Torres ,,,

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If he had been with us last year we would have won the league ,,, BUT perhaps then we wouldnt have signed Cesc and would have

kept Torres ,,,

If we didn't buy Torres.... we will not win... ah I don't want to finish it

[Barbara 15,149]

This makes him have an incredible 65.6% of his shots on target and a goal conversion rate of 34.3%.

Both are outstanding... not to say the 1,1 goal average per game played...

[Jase 43,479]

From the replays I saw earlier, think Costa nearly combusted after that challenge from Yacob and Terry had to calm him down a bit, especially when he's already on 4 yellow cards.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

From the replays I saw earlier, think Costa nearly combusted after that challenge from Yacob and Terry had to calm him down a bit, especially when he's already on 4 yellow cards.

Wouldn't have been the worst thing for him to get that 5th yellow today and get the suspension out of the way against Sunderland.

[stroey 2,525]

Wouldn't have been the worst thing for him to get that 5th yellow today and get the suspension out of the way against Sunderland.

3 games till the Hull City game (next match Derby), both him and Cesc can do a "alonso and ramos" if they can hold it out untill then.

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3 games till the Hull City game (next match Derby), both him and Cesc can do a "alonso and ramos" if they can hold it out untill then.

English media will have some fun words after that