Speaking of incidents, talking with Spanish radio after the match, Costa took responsibility for bib-gate from the Spurs match and claims that all is good between him and the Chelsea manager.
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Costa has scored only four goals this season and threw a bib in his direction after being an usued substitute during the 0-0 draw at Tottenham in November.
Diego Costa says he escaped punishment for a show of disrespect to Jose Mourinho because of the affection he is held in by his team-mates.
“The bib [incident] is in the past”. I made a mistake but my relationship with Mourinho is awesome, we get on really well.
The Chelsea striker, who returned to the starting line up as his side beat Porto 2-0 to advance to the Champions League knockout stages on Wednesday, also backed José Mourinho to continue as manager.
Both Eden Hazard and Diego Costa have found goals hard to come by this season, with Costa hitting just four this season, while 2014-15 PFA Player of the Year Hazard has yet to score.
‘Speaking after Chelsea’s victory over Porto, Mourinho said: ‘Every team finishing second wants to play us or Zenit St Petersburg’.
“A team struggling so much like we are is not obviously a candidate to win the Champions League”, said Mourinho.
Chelsea are away to surprise leaders Leicester City in the Premier League on Monday. We knew we could conceded a goal and still qualify.
“In the league we’ve been lacking a bit of confidence, but in the Champions League we’ve been scoring goals, winning games, and as you see looking very fluent and very risky”, he said. “Tonight it was great”, said Mourinho.
It’s very important to go through to the next stage with the best teams in Europe.
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The sight of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich grinning and exchanging high-fives with his entourage afer Willian’s goal suggested Mourinho has bought himself a little time to get the Premier League champions back on track. “He is the best; everyone voted for him last season”, the Serbian pointed out. But when we won with Porto in 2004 we were not candidates and when we won with Inter Milan in 2010 we were not candidates. “His lack of confidence?”.
