Chelsea put their Premier League troubles to one side on Wednesday night, with the Blues comfortably beating Joe Mourinho’s old side Porto to top Group G ahead of the knockout stages.
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Costa, back in the Chelsea side and prowling the pitch with typical menace, then picked up a booking for a needless trip on the Porto goalkeeper.
He did hint at a little bit of confidence in his side, however, saying that “all the teams who finished second in their group are going to want to play against us.
They didn’t want to go to the Europa League”, Mourinho said, as his team avoided the fate of United, forced to settle for the consolation of dropping into the secondary continental competition after defeat at Wolfsburg on Tuesday.
Costa scored 20 league goals en route to Chelsea winning the title last season, but has netted just three in a disappointing second campaign.
Costa appeared on Onda Cero’s Al Primer Toque and was asked if he could see himself one day wearing Atletico colours again.
“While mathematically it’s still possible, let’s fight every game for every point and see if it’s possible to finish fourth”, the Portuguese said.
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It was of course the French champions who knocked Chelsea out of the competition at this stage last season across two action-packed legs, both on and off the field.
Diego Costa is determined to move on from his bib-throwing display of petulance and contribute to a Chelsea revival.
Howe’s men come into Saturday’s clash full of belief that they can beat the drop, especially after their eye-catching victory at Chelsea last time out. We knew it was a hard match. “There are things you need to control, but the bib thing was an impulse”, said Costa.
It might go against the grain of United’s recent domestic snooze-fests, but I think buying goals at 2.6 with Sporting Index could offer a good return. I just remember the first goal here against Kiev was a defender who scored an own-goal, today it was a defender who scored an own-goal. We could have had different results against Stoke, Tottenham, Bournemouth.
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“We had three or four unsafe situations and an unlucky situation where the game changed completely”.
