Costa: I have no problem with Chelsea team-mate Pedro

Diego Costa has played down his heated argument with team-mate Pedro during Chelsea’s defeat to Tottenham on Wednesday.

Dele Alli headed home twice to lift Spurs to a 2-0 win and prevent Chelsea from equalling Arsenal’s record of 14 successive Premier League wins.

And the defeat looked to be made even worse following a first-half exchange of words between Costa and Pedro when the former failed to find his fellow Spaniard with a short pass.

But striker Costa insists there is nothing in it and that he has no issue with Pedro.

“Nothing happened. We have a great understanding with each other,” said Costa, with Chelsea still five points clear at the top of the table despite the loss.

“When you have a trusted relationship and intimacy with a team-mate it is normal for these things to happen.

“It was just a moment during the game, and that’s it. It was nothing.

“I told him: ‘You have to get in there, why didn’t you go?’ He said ‘I went’ and I said he didn’t. That’s it. Pedro is my brother and we love each other.”