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Diego Costa accepts August accolade
Fri, 12 Sep 2014
Diego Costa's fine first weeks in English football have earned the striker
the Barclays Player of the Month award.
The Spanish international found the net four times in the three games he
played in August, scoring Chelsea's first goal in each of the wins.
On accepting the trophy, Diego Costa said: 'I'm very happy to win this
award. It is important to begin well at a new club and I'm pleased with
both my start to the season and also the team's, which is the most
important thing.
'I hope to continue scoring goals to help out the team and keep making our
fantastic supporters happy. I thank my team-mates as they have helped me
win this award.'
The other players who were nominated for the Premier League award for
August were his Chelsea team-mate Cesc Fabregas, plus two from this
Saturday's opponents Swansea City, Nathan Dyer and Gylfi Sigurdsson, and
Aston Villa's Andreas Weimann.
Also this week Petr Cech collected the Premier League Golden Glove trophy
he won at the end of last season.
Cech shared the honour with Arsenal's Wojciech Szczesny with the two
goalkeepers collecting 16 clean sheets each over the course of the 2013/14
season.
'I am very happy to receive my third Golden Glove award,' Cech said. 'It's
always a pleasure to receive individual awards but I know that it would
not be possible without my team-mates who work very hard to ensure the
team keeps a clean sheet.'
Cech previously won the award for the 2004/05 and 2009/10 seasons.