Ice-cool Diego Costa building bridges at Chelsea

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It helped that it had already been muffled by the reception the striker received following his return to the side after missing last weekend’s trip to Leicester City.

The forward’s desire to secure a lucrative move to China worth around €35m a year, together with a row with one of the Chelsea fitness coaches over the extent of his back injury, had led to his omission at the King Power stadium and fuelled the view that Costa’s time at Stamford Bridge was coming to an end.