Selection of Spain will play against England on Friday in Alicante an worldwide friendly match in which both teams measure what degree of confidence reaches its proposal for the next tournament. “Maybe he should smooth out his character a little bit and change a few aspects of his behaviour, but we don’t want to change him”.
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The truth is that Costa in his current form is the least of England’s worries tonight when they consider a Spain squad with so much talent elsewhere.
“Two good national teams with good players met and in the end, in the second half, we managed to get the goals and win the match”, Casillas told reporters.
Del Bosque again defended combative Chelsea striker Diego Costa who has been underperforming for club and country in recent months but has been included in Spain’s squad.
Costa had scored 20 goals last season as he helped guide Chelsea to the EPL title.
“I wouldn’t dream of suggesting he’s going to try underhand methods”.
“Obviously it hasn’t gone as well as it did last season for him but I think he is a fantastic player. Let’s hope he doesn’t and if he does we’re just going to have to deal with it and hope the referee deals with it like they do every week in the Premier League”.
Koke, his former team-mate, said: ‘He is feeling the pressure to produce the same performances at Chelsea as he did at Atletico.’ Del Bosque, though, claims he still has faith in Costa despite his troubled campaign, adding: ‘We know the character of Costa.
There is no single theory on who at the Spanish federation (RFEF) first pursued the naturalisation of Diego Costa, the kid from Legarto in north-east Brazil who drove trucks for a living as a teenager, and now wears the shirt of one of European football’s greatest nations.
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‘He comes because we think he is useful and that’s what we believe.
