The striker will line up for Roberto Di Matteo’s Legends team in SW6 against Liverpool on Saturday 11 October, reuniting on the pitch with his former Blues team-mates Petr Cech, John Terry, Ramires and Eden Hazard.

Costa was our top scorer in two title-winning campaigns – 2014/15 and 2016/17 – and found the net 58 times in total for Chelsea, providing the cutting edge for Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte’s Premier League-conquering sides.

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And to whet the appetite for Diego returning to lead the line for Chelsea at the Bridge, we have picked out some of our favourites from those 58 Blues goals by our centre-forward.

Everton 3-6 Chelsea, Premier League, 30 August 2014

Costa found the net twice in this epic encounter at Goodison Park – and either could make this list!

The first showed why the combination between Cesc Fabregas and our new striker would be so devastating, as Diego latched on to his through-ball to open the scoring after just 37 seconds.

He then got the ninth and arguably best of the day’s goals in the last minute. An incredible John Mikel Obi back-heel sent Costa into the box, where he left a defender on the floor with a step-over, wrong-footed the keeper with a side-step, and slotted in.

He followed up that brace with a hat-trick in his next game, against Swansea City, making it seven goals in his first four matches for Chelsea!

Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal, Premier League, 5 October 2014

Diego Costa’s sixth goal in his first four Premier League games at the Bridge settled a tight derby with Arsenal and sent us five points clear at the top of the table.

Hazard had already given us the lead from the penalty spot, but it was the striker who made the three points safe.

Again, it was the devastating combination of Fabregas and Costa that did the damage, as the duo continued to prove a headache for Premier League defenders.

A perfectly weighted Fabregas pass over the top was chested down into Costa’s path, allowing him to lift a deft finish over the onrushing Wojciech Szczesny.

Chelsea 4-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv, UEFA Champions League, 16 September 2015

Somehow, despite his prolific Premier League form, it wasn’t until his second season with Chelsea that Diego Costa got his first European goal for the club, but it was a peach.

He was spotted brilliantly by Fabregas – who else? – with a looping ball into the box. We had seen Diego Costa control those passes so brilliantly on his chest so many times, everyone thought they knew what was coming.

Instead, the Spain international struck it first-time, with a brilliant side-footed volley placed into the top corner, brushing the underside of the crossbar on its way in.

Chelsea 1-2 Paris Saint-Germain, UEFA Champions League, 9 March 2016

It wasn’t enough to salvage our Champions League campaign as we exited with a 4-2 aggregate defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16, but this strike by Diego Costa gave us hope in the second leg at Stamford Bridge and underlined his status as one of the world’s top strikers.

The quality of the goal and standard of the opposition were beyond question in Europe’s top club competition.

It’s not often during his career that Thiago Silva found himself outmanoeuvred, but that’s exactly what happened here. Diego Costa took him one way, then cut back to finish confidently with his weaker left foot.

Manchester City 1-3 Chelsea, Premier League, 3 December 2016

These two sides were locked in a tight title fight, alongside Arsenal and Liverpool, when we met at the Etihad Stadium.

Manchester City had dominated the contest and taken the lead in the match and the title race on the brink of half-time, but then Diego Costa intervened to spark the Chelsea surge.

It was that familiar combination again, the striker being found by a long pass from Fabregas. He then did brilliantly to spin Nicolas Otamendi with his first touch off the chest, use his strength to hold off his marker, before slotting in low at the near post. B

By the end of the game, Chelsea had scored twice more through Willian and Eden Hazard and were three points clear at the top of the table.

Chelsea 4-2 Stoke City, Premier League, 31 December 2016

This might not have been pretty, but few goals showed just why Diego Costa was such a handful for defenders to deal with as much as this one.

Most forwards spent their time complaining about the bullying they received from Stoke’s physical defenders in the mid-2010s, but our No.19 turned the tables on them and beat them at their own game.

Marcos Alonso’s throw was headed up into the air by Charlie Adams, and from there, Costa showed no mercy.

He brushed aside Ryan Shawcross to escape the defender’s grasp, outmuscled Bruno Martins Indi to leave him sprawled across the turf, and then smashed his shot high into the net.

It was a goal that ensured our 13th successive victory in the Premier League, then a record in a single season.

Chelsea 4-2 Southampton, Premier League, 25 April 2017

This was one of Costa’s final goals for Chelsea before he departed Stamford Bridge as a Premier League champion in the summer of 2017.

However, it was also probably the easiest on the eye out of all of them, demonstrating the slick attacking combinations that fired us to the title that season.

The first of his two strikes against the Saints at the Bridge that day was his 50th in the Premier League, but his second was a masterpiece.

Starting wide on the left, Costa played a quick one-two with Hazard, another with Pedro, taking six Southampton players out of the game, before shifting the ball from his left foot to the right expertly to make room for the low finish.