Costa stars as Chelsea pierce one step closer to glory
Chelsea’s Brazilian-born Spanish striker Diego Costa celebrates after scoring their third idea during a English Premier League football compare between Chelsea and Southampton during Stamford Bridge in London on Apr 25, 2017.
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LONDON: Diego Costa scored his 50th and 51st Premier League goals as Chelsea overcame energetic Southampton 4-2 on Tuesday to settle a seven-point lead during a tip of a table.
Costa set adult Eden Hazard’s early opener, that was cancelled out by Oriol Romeu, before Gary Cahill easy a hosts’ lead during an unseasonably cold Stamford Bridge.
Costa hermetic feat with a second-half brace, finale a seven-game idea drought and heaping a vigour on second-place Tottenham Hotspur, who revisit in-form Crystal Palace on Wednesday.
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“Today we have to be gratified with a bid of my players. It wasn’t easy after a tough diversion opposite Tottenham,” pronounced Chelsea manager Antonio Conte. “We contingency be assured for a future. It’s critical to demeanour during ourselves and not a other [Spurs].”
Having beaten Spurs in a FA Cup semi-finals on Saturday, Chelsea’s latest win validated a standing of Conte’s side as England’s group to beat.
They face a troublesome outing to Everton this weekend and have now left 11 joining games though a purify piece — their longest run given 1996 — though a finishing line is only 5 games away.
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Hazard, Costa and Cesc Fabregas returned to a Chelsea and they total for a fifth-minute opener.
Fabregas’s pass from median sent Costa scampering divided down a inside-right channel and his cut-back was swept into a bottom-left dilemma by Hazard.
James Ward-Prowse’s dilemma from a left was inadvertently flicked on by Cesar Azpilicueta and reached a unattended Manolo Gabbiadini during a behind post.
The Italian’s cross-shot flicked off Courtois and was tapped in by ex-Chelsea midfielder Romeu, who had final scored in Jan 2016.
Just during a cadence of half-time, N’Golo Kante’s low cranky was helped on by Marcos Alonso and with Costa rising himself into a mid-air scissors kick, a England centre-back charged in bravely to conduct home.
Costa was denied in a 53rd minute, though found himself once again on a scoring piece as Fabregas lofted a cranky to a distant post and a Spanish striker hold off Bertrand to plant a header past Fraser Forster.
“We played a good team, though it’s a oppressive result,” pronounced Southampton manager Claude Puel. “Eden Hazard and Diego Costa done a disproportion today.”
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