Chelsea FC news: Costa becomes third player to score 20 Premier League goals on two occasions for Blues

3 Diego Costa scored his 20th goal of the season for Chelsea

Diego Costa’s goal in the 3-0 win against Middlesbrough took his tally to 20 for the season and he joins a special group of Chelsea players in the process.

It is the second time he has scored 20 in a single league campaign after he did the same in his debut 2014/15 season, with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Didier Drogba the other strikers to manage the feat for the Blues.

Hasselbaink managed 23 goals in the 2000/01 and 2001/02 seasons, while Drogba scored 20 in the 2006/07 season and then 29 goals in the 2009/10 season.

This obviously doesn’t take into account the extraordinary goal scoring of Jimmy Greaves in the old First Division. He scored 22 goals in his first season in the 1957/58 campaign and then 33 the following year. Greaves scored 29 times in the 1959/60 season and in the 1960/61 season, he scored an incredible 41 league goals.

2016/17 Premier League top scorers:

Romelu Lukaku: 24 goals

Harry Kane: 21 goals

Diego Costa: 20 goals

Alexis Sanchez: 19 goals

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