Diego Costa produces the good, the bad, and the ugly as Chelsea win

Chelsea 2 West Ham United 1: New season, same story. Diego Costa scored a late, late winner to get Antonio Conte’s reign off to a winning start, but controversy swirled round Stamford Bridge with unhappy West Ham supporters and staff claiming the Spain striker should have been sent off long before he put the ball into the net.

Costa shot past Adrian for a dramatic late winner, after James Collins had equalised Eden Hazard’s penalty, but the striker was lucky to be on the pitch.

The Spaniard had been booked in the first half for dissent so was dicing with danger when he lunged in on Adrian as the keeper tried to dribble out of his goalmouth in the 67th minute. Costa caught Adrian on the knee with his studs, but referee Anthony Taylor did not even produce a second yellow, let alone the red that the foul deserved.