Diego Costa’s goal 50 seconds into the Atletico Madrid’s Super Cup final match against Real Madrid was exactly the type of play manager Diego Simeone sought to replace since the striker left the club in the summer of 2014. Costa took a long ball from Diego Godin (Godin’s second long ball to Costa in under a minute), kicked it over Sergio Ramos, then flicked it past Raphael Varane into an impossible angle inside the box and blasted a shot near post past Keylor Navas. Though the match...
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