19 Sep 2015 13:32:31
Said it weeks ago. Diego does himself no favors with referees by doing this week in week out. It's one thing when he's bagging goals but he's clearly not.
19 Sep 2015 13:48:32
Quite right. Looks likely to get sent off at any time -- perhaps bring Remy on for DC for second half, will offer more pace against 10 man AFC too.
19 Sep 2015 14:44:18
Costa made gabriel get red, even if it was dirty it helped us massively
19 Sep 2015 14:49:39
Somewhat surprised with the team selection but here we are with three points albeit against ten and nine men. The big positive is the fact we looked like a team prepared to dig deep which has been missing. The negative, sadly is Diego Costa and his antics. We want goals and it is all very well him antagonising the opposition but it now seems to be his sole intent and on a bad weekend HE could be the one off. Eased the pressures but still not a smooth team performance.
19 Sep 2015 15:00:29
Not sure why we're having a go at Diego, if he's not scoring he's doing the next best thing to get us a result which is to get people sent off, as long as he doesn't get sent off I have no problem with it. Week in week out I watch ref calls go against us we get the least amount of penalty calls for us so I don't care when calls go against our opponents.
19 Sep 2015 17:53:25
Agree with Bluelab, as long as he can maintain the edge and not get sent off or retrospectively banned, IDC what Diego does. We deserved a pen in the first half and we generally don't get many decisions in our favour. If Costa can push players into getting sent off then great.
19 Sep 2015 19:54:26
But that's the issue isn't it? Diego has gotten banned in the past and may be retrospectively for today. He also gets no penalties called for him because of his antics. While it works on days like today he could've very easily been the one sent off and there's been many times where this was the case.