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Diego Costa to miss second leg after picking up mindless booking
Published 20:35 20 Feb 2019 GMT
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Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa will miss his side's Champions League second round trip to Turin after picking up a needless yellow card in the first-half of the first leg in Madrid.
Juventus had won a free-kick outside of the Atletico box before Costa was booked by referee Felix Zwayer for stepping over the white line and encroaching on the free-kick taker. https://twitter.com/VMSportIE/status/1098315886270865408 Cristiano Ronaldo proceeded to blast his shot towards the Atletico goal with Madrid goalkeeper Jan Oblak doing very well to push the ball over the bar and behind for a corner kick. Atletico recently signed Spanish international Alvaro Morata on a 18-month loan deal from Chelsea and the striker said that he always had intentions of linking up with Diego Simeone at the club.'If I tell you the truth, the first contact was three-and-a-half years ago,' he told Spanish publication AS.
'I gave him my word that as soon as I was able to, I would come. It wasn't possible before.
'But it wasn't because of me. I gave him my word, and now I've come here it has been the time when I've talked with Simeone the least!'
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