Andersen relishing the prospect of going head to head with Costa

JOACHIM ANDERSEN enjoys a battle within a battle and at Anfield in August came out the convincing winner of a good one, winding up Liverpool forward Darwin Nunez to the point of inducing a head loss, and a head-butt, from the Uruguayan, one that earned him a red card.

- Malik Ouzia

Afterwards, Andersen branded Nunez "really stupid", but if the Swede made a fool of his rival and light work of that particular and all too literal tete-a-tete, then tonight could offer a more testing examination, as he steps up to what might just about be the boss level.

Diego Costa's return to English football with Wolves has so far yielded few fireworks: a cameo off the bench against West Ham, an almost mawkishly polite return to Stamford Bridge and then a quiet outing against Nottingham Forest at the weekend. In other words, something is due.