Chelsea striker Diego Costa is the guy you love to have on your team, and absolutely despise playing against. He loves to bend, and often breaks the rules. He’s complicated and polarizing, to the point that he’s essentially become the English Premier League’s top individual villain.
Certainly since Liverpool sold Luis Suarez to Barcelona, the league has lacked that bonafide heel, but Diego Costa has done his to step up and fulfill that role. The media coverage of Diego Costa is just as polarizing and complicated as he is.
The media in his native country of Spain often rip into him, and now he’s ripped back.
“If I were a Real Madrid or Barca player, you would say I played well,” Costa told reporters.
“I did bad games. But even if I don’t score, the truth must be said. I missed the goals but they will arrive.
“Media don’t lie many times when they say I have not done great things with the national team. But you have to say it as well when I play well.”
He’s scored just one goal in 11 appearances on international duty, but he disputed the idea that it was another poor outing by his standards against Belgium.
“I think this one has been my best game with the national team. Not like other times when I leave hurt,” Costa said.
“It’s my bad because sometimes I fuck it up, but other times some people make a storm out of a little thing.”
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