Costa and Matic revel in Chelsea’s powerful start

Carl Markham 07:21 01/09/2014
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  • Impressive acquisition: Over the last three seasons Diego Costa has not lost in any of the 33 games he has scored in for Atletico and Chelsea.

    Striker Diego Costa hopes his impressive start to his Chelsea career is a good omen for the club.

    The Brazil-born Spain inter­national took his tally to four in three matches after his £32 mil­lion (Dh195m) move from Atletico Madrid with two in the frenetic 6-3 win at Everton.

    Costa’s goals helped his former side to the Spanish title last season after he got off to a rapid start with 10 in eight successive wins from the off. Twelve months on Costa shows no signs of slowing down despite the hamstring problems which dis­rupted the end of his campaign.

    “We have started really well and it is always good to have a great start,” he said. “Last year we did the same and now this year too.

    “It is nice to score goals, but for me the most important thing is the team wins; but I am happy I scored and helped the team win.

    “Our team is a great team, it is really important to achieve great things and I am really happy to be here.”

    Costa scored in the first minute – after just 35 seconds – and the last, in between which were sandwiched efforts from Branislav Ivanovic, Nemanja Matic and Ramires in addition to a Seamus Coleman own goal.

    Kevin Mirallas, Steven Naismith and, against the club he left in the summer, Samuel Eto’o made it 2-1, 3-2 and 4-3 respectively but Chel­sea always just kept one step ahead.

    “It was nice to score my first goal (for the club) because on this ground it is always difficult, although the most important thing is we got three points,” said mid­fielder Matic. “This season we play better, we have more goals in us, we are more confident in attack – we scored six goals which is not easy.

    “It was very good for people who bought tickets for the game as they saw nine goals, which is good for football and the Premier League.

    “If every game was like this I’d be happy but the coach will show us where we made mistakes.”

    The coach in question, Jose Mourinho, has many examples to show them in training today after expressing his dissatisfaction with how they defended.

    But he also gave them some credit for the way they attacked clinically.

    He said: “The quality of our foot­ball was fantastic: every time we had the ball we were aggressive.

    “I prefer to win 6-0 playing fan­tastic football, defensively and offensively, but I want the team to play the way we did, I want them to be positive but not make defensive mistakes.” 

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