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Chelsea’s Cesar Azpilicueta hails Diego Costa after brace earns point at Swansea

John Terry could miss out in Friday night’s Premier League clash between Chelsea and Liverpool, after suffering an ankle injury.

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Ki played the full 90 minutes following a summer that was disrupted by having to go on military service, and he was encouraged by the performance of the side.

“I took the touch away from him”. It is normal in football.

Their rules state that players and managers are allowed to criticise a referee as long as it is within reason and does not imply bias, question their integrity or make offensive and personal comments.

“I think we had control of the game most of the time”.

“It is hard, but he showed me and his team-mates that he has fantastic behaviour and it was not easy for him”. Fantastic behaviour. It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t easy. “It’s incredible the defender finished the match”.

That appeared to be a reference to Amat.

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte said he believes that opposition defenders actively provoke Diego Costa in an attempt to get him sent off following the Blues’ 2-2 draw with Swansea City on Sunday. “You could be sat on the moon and see it is a clear foul”, Cahill was quoted as saying by Metro.

“If you ask me if the defender [Amat] deserved a second yellow card, I don’t want to reply about this”, Conte said at his postmatch news conference. It’s not like he’s come from the side of me, he’s come from behind me.

He kicks him in the Achilles and any Swansea fans who think that was fair, need to look at the replay. I also want to say if we have the opportunity to kill the game, we must kill it. Swansea went on to take a lead but again at the dying moments Costa salvaged an equaliser for the Blues as the match ended 2-2 at the Liberty Stadium.

With the players preparing to face Liverpool, let’s look at how they rated against Swansea.

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Speaking after the game, Conte said: “I don’t know the extent of the injury. For me that is incredible”. The referee made that decision and we had to move forward, to get in the game.

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