With Diego Costa rescuing a point for Chelsea with an audacious overhead kick, fans took to Twitter to praise the frontman.
Chelsea continued their unbeaten start to the Premier League season with a 2-2 draw at the Liberty Stadium on Sunday, thanks to a dramatic turnaround twice in the game.
Diego Costa grabbed two goals, including a spectacular overhead kick, to draw Chelsea level, after the Spanish international had given the Blues the lead, before a Gylfi Sigurdsson penalty and a goal by Leroy Fer – after a defensive mistake by Gary Cahill – saw Swansea get back into the match.
Chelsea had control of the first half and took the lead in the 18th minute when Federico Fernandez’s poor header was brought down by Oscar, who picked out the Chelsea striker on the edge of the penalty box, with the Brazilian producing a superb right footed finish in the bottom corner.
The lead was exactly what Antonio Conte’s side needed as they took control of the game with chances falling to Eden Hazard and Cesar Azpilicueta, before Costa had a chance to make it 2-0, with his second, but with time and space to pick his spot the 27-year-old sliced his effort wide from just a couple of yards out.
With Chelsea in full control, they took the game to Swansea in the early part of the second half and created a number of chances, although none that truly troubled the Swans goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski.
But in the 58th minute the home side got back in to the game when Modou Barrow clipped a ball over the Chelsea defence for Sigurdsson to chase, Thibault Courtois misjudged the flight of the ball and was forced to lunge, mistiming his attempts to play the ball, and the referee pointed to the spot without hesitation.
Sigurdsson duly picked himself up, dusted himself off, and dispatched the penalty with aplomb to make it 1-1.
Things then got worse for Conte’s side three minutes later, when Gary Cahill was caught in possession by Fer, who then found himself one-on-one with Courtois and as the Dutch midfielder shot on goal, the Chelsea goalkeeper managed to get a touch on the ball but could do nothing to stop the ball rolling just over the line as Swansea completed a massive turnaround in the game to make it 2-1.
But with the game coming to an end and Chelsea pushing men forward, they introduced Victor Moses and Cesc Fabregas, and with the game looking like it was getting ahead of Conte’s side, Costa scored a spectacular overhead kick to make it 2-2.
The goal came as a huge blow to Swansea, and as is usually the case Costa will be the main talking point.
Chelsea fans took to Twitter to praise the iconic front man after the match:
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