punched, elbowed, apparently bitten just another night for an atletico madrid striker yet this was not diego costa circa 2010 to 2014 this was mario mandzukic involved in bust up after bust up as he shed blood and sweat against great rivals real madrid at the vicente calderon when atletico allowed costa to sign for chelsea on july 1, 2014, diego simeone may have fretted about losing his street fighter not for long, however just nine days later, he bought mandzukic from bayern munich, and the croatia international looked every bit as aggressive on tuesday night blood pours from mario mandzukic's face during the champions league quarter final first leg in madrid  sergio ramos and atletico madrid striker mandzukic continually clashed on tuesday night during the tie  mandzukic proved he is a warrior with his performance against real madrid, just as diego costa was  costa gives john terry, who is now his chelsea team mate, a stern look during a champions league tie  nobody elbowed their way to the top quite like costa – from the streets of brazil, to spain, to england – and the same went for mandzukic in the champions league quarter final first leg the 28 year old came to blows with defenders sergio ramos and dani carvajal  – drawing blood after an elbow to the face from the former, while receiving a punch, and possibly a bite, from the latter itv pundit paul scholes said mandzukic 'made a meal of things' yet the evidence was there for all to see, pouring down his face round two awaits at the bernabeu next week yet mandzukic was as culpable as he was the victim he committed seven fouls, compared to 11 in total by real madrid, and it was more than any player has managed in a champions league game against the winners of la decima before the long ball tactic by atletico was not working, nor did mandzukic have enough pace to beat a defence boasting raphael varane he had zero shots on or off target, completed just 18 passes over 90 minutes, and lacked the pace and darting runs costa delivers yet this was about playing rough, rather than scoring goals, and he played the role of warrior to perfection so much so that simeone – albeit riskily – substituted his partner, antoine griezmann, after 77 minutes instead of the man on thin ice mandzukic clashed with dani carvajal during the quarter final first leg and played rough all night  mandzukic's heat map, who had zero shots on or off target, and completed just 18 passes over 90 minutes  mandzukic, despite failing to conjure a chance on tuesday night, is a natural striker his cv includes dinamo zagreb, wolfsburg and bayern munich, and he was imposing at every club fifty six goals in 132 appearances in croatia's prva hnl fifty three  in 110  in germany's bundesliga all that added to simeone feeling mandzukic was next in line at a forward thinking club that have a history of great strikers which stretches back decades no sooner had fernando torres left in 2007 for liverpool, for example, than el nino was replaced sergio aguero turned up, alongside diego forlan, and torres was old news aguero was deemed irreplaceable, until those in madrid were introduced to radamel falcao the same year kun left then, when falcao left for monaco in 2013, it was costa's turn, and so on sergio aguero signed for atletico in 2006 and scored 74 goals in 175 appearances in la liga in five years  radamel falcao kept up an impressive 076 goals to game ratio during his time with atletico from 2011  jimmy floyd hasselbaink proved a great striker for atletico as the club produce top forwards continually  no sooner had fernando torres left in 2007 for liverpool than el nino was replaced at vicente caldero  mandzukic's tattoo on his lower back was on show, and it read: 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' trouble for the striker is his ink – written in hebrew – is backwards and has grammatical mistakes so makes no sense! the spanish club don't fret losing a striker they regroup, consider it a temporary inconvenience, and buy a replacement they have been doing so ever since jimmy floyd hasselbaink in 1999, and christian vieri the year before, and even further still it's the atletico way it is not unlike what has happened with goalkeepers at the club david de gea left in 2011 and was replaced by thibaut courtois, only for the previously anonymous jan oblak to take over this year much like their record with strikers, it looks inspired, as the 22 year old who cost €16million (£115m) thwarted gareth bale, cristiano ronaldo and james rodriguez almost single handedly and so when simeone lost costa to chelsea, he signed antoine griezmann and mandzukic and if the latter's showing against real is anything to go by, then the atletico manager bought just about the closest thing he could find to replace the barclays premier league's joint top goalscorer mandzukic and ramos exchange words during a heated battle between the madrid rivals on tuesday night  mandzukic shows off his battle wounds during the match between the two great madrid rivals 
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