{"id":20880,"date":"2016-09-12T17:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T17:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=20880"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"conte-praise-for-costa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2016\/09\/12\/conte-praise-for-costa\/","title":{"rendered":"Conte Praise For Costa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Costa struck the first and last goals of an entertaining game &#8211; particularly in the second half &#8211; at the Liberty to protect their unbeaten start to the season but ultimately it was not enough to retain their 100% record.<\/p>\n<p>And through a series of over reactions and potential dives and ending with a dangerous high kick that was allowed to count as a goal, Costa put in a typical ninety minutes that &#8211; for me &#8211; make him one of the most odious players there is at the moment and certainly at home in a Chelsea side led by John Terry.<\/p>\n<p>However, his performance led to praise from manager Antonio Conte at the end of the game with the Chelsea manager happy with the display of his striker<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am surprised they did not have a player sent off,&#8221; Conte said after Andre Marriner had booked three Swansea players during Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not want to reply about this, but after the game I am asked about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was asked about the patience of Diego Costa and I can tell you he behaved fantastically well to control the situation because he took a lot of kicks from the first minute until the end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is difficult, but he showed me and his team-mates that he has fantastic behaviour and it was not easy for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he gets targeted by defenders. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They know him and sometimes they try to provoke him. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swans TV - Reaction: Conte on Swans draw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dqwe5MKMXyo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><#cfc><copyrightAction Images><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costa struck the first and last goals of an entertaining game &#8211; particularly in the second half &#8211; at the Liberty to protect their unbeaten start to the season but ultimately it was not enough to retain their 100% record. And through a series of over reactions and potential dives and ending with a dangerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}