{"id":189299,"date":"2016-02-12T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=189299"},"modified":"2016-02-12T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T14:41:21","slug":"diego-costa-to-play-with-broken-nose-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/02\/diego-costa-to-play-with-broken-nose-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Costa to play with broken nose this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
Chelsea striker Diego Costa is expected to be fit to play in a mask against Newcastle on Saturday after breaking his nose in training on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Chelsea interim boss Guus Hiddink revealed on Friday that the striker suffered the injury in a training ground collision with an unnamed academy player.<\/p>\n
“Yesterday in training Diego got in a duel, got his nose broken,” Hiddink said.<\/p>\n
“It was not this tough duel, but he put his nose on the back of the head and he was very unlucky.”<\/p>\n
Costa is poised to join full-back Cesar Azpilicueta in wearing a protective face mask, which was due to be fitted on Friday before a light training session to test Costa’s readiness. Azpilicueta is recovering from a facial injury.<\/p>\n
Hiddink added: “Today is the day they put on a mask. We are a team with a lot of masks. A Zorro team.<\/p>\n
“I hope. I’m not sure, but I think he will be available.”<\/p>\n
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Source: Talksport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chelsea striker Diego Costa is expected to be fit to play in a mask against Newcastle on Saturday after breaking his nose in training on Thursday. Chelsea interim boss Guus Hiddink revealed on Friday that the striker suffered the injury in a training ground collision with an unnamed academy player. “Yesterday in training Diego got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n