Seb Stafford-Bloor manned the Liberty Stadium armed with Stats Zone to report back on a thrilling tussle in south Wales
1. Costa’s overall contributions are rising
Diego Costa is a pantomime villain and, just as he does at every other away ground in the country, quickly provoked the crowd with his roughhousing style. But beyond the theatrics and the inconvenient truth that he might have been sent off (again), he was excellent: the Chelsea striker is notoriously a trade-off between the good and the bad and, narrowly, the good won out at the Liberty Stadium.