Absolute beast. I was skeptical as well but how could one not be? So far he's silenced any criticism from this guy. He always looks like a threat and with the likes of fab and hazard floating around I have a feeling there is much more to come! Exciting times for us.

I second that!

Howard isn't a Chelsea player and he doesn't have Costa's dirty reputation. Cesc was provoked more than Costa: Mirallas stamped on his arm, clearly wanting to provoke him, and Cesc dealt with the situation in a firm but composed manner. Costa really needs to keep his temper in check and think long-term. 

What has Howard not playing for Chelsea got to do with him being short tempered hot head? who did enough in this game to receive three red cards, not the one yellow he did receive. (ref was totally incompetent)

Costa never once lost his temper, stayed calm under a lot of provocation, just kept on bossing their defence, more power to his elbow.

You should watch the whole game & react to what you see not what you think you seeing. 

Edited September 1, 201411 yr by mbh

The sad thing is you're no longer surprised when a chelsea player is painted as the bad guy, even though there is evidence galore to the contrary...they were lining up to label him a flop a la Torres, been let down on that score, so attack his character instead - Pathetic

Edited September 1, 201411 yr by The Brit

Costa trained in MMA whilst growing up and can legitimately handle himself also. I reckon he will be as far from a cokehead as possible.

 

I'm calling bollox on this. 

 

If we can keep Costa fit we'll win the league without a doubt. He's a battering ram. 

Loved his 2nd goal yesterday, put Distin on his arse then had the composure to smash it past Howard. Great goal.

That was my favourite of the match too. When did Mikel pick up back heel tekkers?!

That was my favourite of the match too. When did Mikel pick up back heel tekkers?!

 

I don't think Pogba will ever recover from when Mikel backheel nutmegged him.

I've been looking at this for about 5 minutes and I still can't look away, it keeps drawing me back in.

He will kill and eat anyone who stands in his way

That is the look of a madman

I f**king love it

Edited September 1, 201411 yr by CFC_RFC_TID!

I'm calling bollox on this.

If we can keep Costa fit we'll win the league without a doubt. He's a battering ram.

I think he's mistaking him with someone else. There actually is Brazilian martial artist named Diego da Costa. He's competing in MMA and BJJ. Also he sort of look like Diego Costa but with shorter hair :)

Diegoal Costa, Chelsea's number 19

In one dizzying teatime on Merseyside, Diego Costa turned Roberto Martinez into a little Englander, sent the sainted Tim Howard stark raving bonkers and confirmed ‘Boring, boring Chelsea’ as the most explosive attacking force in the English game.

Jose Mourinho’s £32million signing is not so much a striker as a destructive weather system, altering everything in his wake.

Mario Balotelli, Alexis Sanchez, Radamel Falcao and Angel Di Maria have all grabbed more headlines during a transfer window in which the Premier League flexed its financial muscle and reversed a trend as worldwide box-office stars flocked to these shores.

Sanchez is a magnificent talent, yet not the one player Arsenal needed. Likewise Falcao and Di Maria at Manchester United. Balotelli, meanwhile, is a striker who creates the wrong kind of mayhem.

Costa is the one - and Mourinho always knew it.

While Chelsea struggled for goals last season, their manager insisted he didn’t want to sign just any striker in January as he knew his own agent Jorge Mendes would deliver him ‘THE striker’ during this summer window.

We wondered why the Blues' boss didn’t fancy a proven Premier League goal-scorer in Romelu Lukaku, until we saw the Belgian head to head against Costa on Saturday evening and we understood.

The shrug of Fernando Torres has been replaced by the scowl of Costa – a footballer in Mourinho’s smouldering image – and suddenly Chelsea are complete.

Just three games in and it would appear that, if the Spain international stays fit, the title will head back to Stamford Bridge.

Even after the thrilling 6-3 victory at Everton, Mourinho was building his imaginary castles and inventing fantastical sieges, as is his wont.

He claimed, after a couple of unjust yellow cards, that Costa will not win any personal accolades.

He insisted his striker would continue to be the victim of wind-up merchants when this is clearly a ‘give-as-good-as-he-gets’ man, rather than a callow new boy craving cotton wool.

Mourinho is as nonsensical in public as he is brilliant in the dressing-room and on the training pitch.

Of course Costa will win personal gongs, should he continue in this vein. The English game loves a raw, street footballer and its referees are more forgiving of them than any on the continent.

The glorious chaos of the Premier League is Costa’s natural home.

It was not just his two dead-eyed strikes, his excellent link-up play and his appetite for hard labour which marked Costa out as A-list box-office material at Goodison.

It was the way he screamed into the face of Everton’s Seamus Coleman when the Irishman netted an own-goal, having earlier earned the Chelsea man a booking by instigating a spot of argy-bargy.

It was puerile, it was spiteful, it was incendiary. It was exactly the sort of thing which makes the Premier League world go round.

During major international tournaments, we are wooed by romantic foreign notions of patient passing football. When the domestic season resumes, it is clear we like it fast, furious and rough.

Heroes are all well and good, but anti-heroes are more fun.

Eric Cantona, Luis Suarez, Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira. These are the names which will echo down the generations. Costa can join them.

Everton boss Martinez took Mourinho’s bait, lecturing Costa on professionalism and the ethics of English football, without explaining how Coleman’s baiting tactics fitted in to this Little House On The Prairie view of our game.

This after keeper Howard – billed as a cross between Lev Yashin and Mother Teresa during a fine World Cup – had literally been at Costa’s throat, somehow escaping a red card for the second time in the match, having already handled outside the box when under intense pressure from Costa.

Martinez is an intelligent manager and Howard an outstanding experienced keeper, yet Costa got under their skins. Many more will suffer the same fate.

This is a man who inspired Atletico Madrid to the unlikeliest of Spanish title triumphs last season.

A man who turned his back on his native Brazil, when the most famous national team on the planet so desperately needed him for a home World Cup.

And a man whose imminent arrival even persuaded Roman Abramovich to discover the virtue of patience.

For the Russian knew full well that a human Molotov would be flying in.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelseas-diego-costa-can-join-4145918

Diego costa. Seems to be doing everything I hoped and said he would. His build and stature scream out someone who should be clumsy on the ball and have the pace of a snail but he is the complete opposite. He has great acceleration and is very good with the ball at his feet. He is just as good without it too as he has shown with his willingness to close the ball down and to track back and help the team defensively. Great things are in store this season if we keep him fit. Even in the worst case scenario I have a lot of faith in Remy and even Drogba to perform when called upon.

Add to that the small fact he looks like he could be Oscar's father makes me like him even more.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelseas-diego-costa-can-join-4145918

That was a brilliant read!

That was a brilliant read!

Yeah was brilliant

Nailed on that he will be the leagues top goalscorer

I wonder how feels having Falcao in the league. I'm fairly sure that it will drive him to score more goals and out perform him.

Falcao for me is totally over rated, couldn't do much in french football and will struggle in the prem, I'm sure he's only 5ft 8, if that's the case I can dee him being bullied by nearly every CB on the league if he plays up top.

Falcao for me is totally over rated, couldn't do much in french football and will struggle in the prem, I'm sure he's only 5ft 8, if that's the case I can dee him being bullied by nearly every CB on the league if he plays up top.

Hmmm I doubt he will be bullied.

He gave our defenders the run around a few years back.

Hopefully he's not at that level anymore though.

That he did but now with a dodgy knee I don't think he's the player he once was.

We don't really know that though do we?

We don't really know that though do we?

Nope.

He's not played since so everyone is just guessing or hoping.

Some players come back stronger from these injuries while others don't. Better care and procedures mean these types of injuries are not as damaging to players as they once were.

Make no mistake about it, Falcao was the best striker around for a few years before joining Monaco. What we dont know is how his injury has effected him if at all. If he is fully fit and hasnt lost any parts of his game then he will score lots of goals in England. The problem United have though isnt scoring goals its at the other end. They bought one or two players but the arent anything special. Their holding mids and defenders are very average and this is why Untied arent anything to worry about this season.

Diego Costa as a "human molotov" is fantastic imagery.

I agree he needs to be made aware of that if he isn't already. Surely he isn't that nieve though?Genuine question here, was he not targeted a lot in the Spanish league last term?

I think Costa's temperament is a double edge sword to some degree, I like that he has passion and gets worked up, it could also work to our advantage.

Whatever happens I just hope that Costa uses his edge sparingly and where the situation suits.

No I'm sure he's not that naive. I don't actually follow La Liga, but I suspect that Costa may just be that much more of a target in the Premier league.

Guessing here of course, but my bet is that Mourinho is quite confident of getting the best out of Costa and of being able to at least partially control his temper. However justified Costa's reputation is remains to be seen. I personally agree that so far he's handled himself very well.

This is what I was inferring when I wrote that in this instance Martinez needs to shut the f**k up, mind his own business, and look at the behaviour of some of his own players, Tim Howard and Seamus Coleman in particular.

A headline in the Irish Independent reads: Martinez unhappy with Costa's goading of Seamus Coleman. Nope. Sorry. Not having it.  From the same article:

But Mourinho said the provocation came from the Everton players. “The only thing I didn’t like in this game apart from our defensive play was the way some Everton players were trying to create problems for Diego,” the Chelsea manager said.

“This is British football and a contradiction with the Everton team because everything with them is good and positive. But to be chasing cards for a player who is here to play football is disappointing. At the end of the story, Diego is maybe the best player in the Premier League so far, but he has two yellow cards now.

“Against Burnley he got one for simulation when it was a clear penalty and today everyone was chasing him to get him in trouble. That’s disappointing. But I would say it was the complete performance by him.”

And Mourinho is spot on.