While Lionel Messi has, as usual, been hogging the headlines in the early weeks of the La Liga season, another South American, Atletico Madrid's Diego Costa, has hit a rich vein of form to join the Argentine on seven goals at the top of the scoring chart.
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Combative Brazil forward Costa has started the campaign with a bang, easing into the gap left by departed striker Radamel Falcao, and his performances have helped Diego Simeone's side match Messi's Barcelona with a perfect six wins from their opening six games.
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The 24-year-old netted a double in Tuesday's 2-1 home win over Osasuna, prompting former Argentina captain Simeone to say Costa had the talent to go as far as he wanted.
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Simeone's commitment and aggressive playing style as a midfielder for clubs including Atletico, Sevilla, Inter Milan and Lazio – he was said to play "with a knife between his teeth" – appears to have rubbed off on his prolific pupil.
Brazil is a country that has lots of talent when it comes to football so I'm not surprised. They just have lovely players!