One hundred percent Diego Costa
Diego Costa his hundredth game as an Atletico player against Villareal. In one hundred games in the number 19 has become one of the start of the team winning a Cup and 2 European Super Cups. Congratulations genius!
The draw against Villareal in Valencian lands will not be just any game for Diego Costa. The 'Panther from the Manzanares' reached the magic number of 100 games for Atletico Madrid. Recently called up by Vicente del Bosque to defend the national team in two friendlies against Guinea and South Africa that will serve the national team in preparation for the World Cup in Brazil 2014, the Spanish-Brazilian player is in top form and I the current top scorer in the group led by Diego Pablo Simeone.
The Atletico number 19 is in his third season in our club. In 2011/2013 he played on loan at Rayo Vallecano, in which Diego Costa has continued to evolve and improve in his game and in his contribution to the team. In the 2010/2011 the Spanish-Brazilian striker played 39 games in which he scored eight goals. A cruciate ligament injury in his knee kept him out for the first half of the following season. After recovering, Rayo Vallecano were strengthened when he got 10 goals in 16 games. Such numbers brought him back to Atletico where he had a glorious season that will be remembered in the clubs history books. In it, the striker played 44 games in which he became one of the stars of a campaign in which he had 20 goals, 8 of them including one in the final of the King's Cup. This season, in 16 games (14 in the league and 2 in Champions League), Diego Costa has managed to score on 16 occasions.
In his one hundred games (72 in the league, 13 in the Copa del Rey, 11 in Europa League, 2 in Champions League and 2 in Spanish Super Cup) in which he has managed 44 goals (0.44 per game).
