Diego Costa Ripped His Shirt, Scored Game-Winner vs. Liverpool

Diego Costa contributed a little bit of everything for Chelsea in its 2-1 win over Liverpool at Anfield Saturday, as the Blues maintained their vice-like grip atop the EPL. Costa tussled with Martin Škrtel in the first half, ripped his shirt in the second half, scored the eventual game-winner and finally picked up a yellow card in the closing stages of the match. Costa, a summer signing from Atletico Madrid, is now tied with Manchester City’s Kun Agüero atop the league scoring charts with 10 goals.

César Azpilicueta did most of the hard work on Costa’s winner, serving in a cross across the goal mouth that found his fellow Spanish international at the back post (who’d switched into a fresh jersey by that point in the game). There are still 27 matches left to play but Chelsea — now seven points clear of second-place Southampton — are (bold take alert) a much more dangerous team with Costa lurking in the box than they were with their collection of strikers a season ago.

Liverpool looked to have drawn a penalty in the 88th minute on a handball off Chelsea defender Gary Cahill, but it wasn’t awarded by referee Anthony Taylor. Cahill was directly involved in the game’s other two goals, first deflecting a shot by Emre Can to put Liverpool ahead and later scoring on a goalmouth scramble which was confirmed by the league’s goal-line technology.

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