Diego Costa refused to train this Thursday

Diego Pablo Simeone had already played down the Diego Costa situation and said to 'Goal' that there are more positive things than negative ones, but that does not take away that the striker will be unavailable for the following matches.

The attacker will have to miss eight games for insulting and then grabbing the referee who officiated the game at the Camp Nou and last Wednesday, according to 'AS', the player was notified of the punishment.

Now, it was in this Thursday's training session when the striker has apparently refused to work with the rest of his teammates, something which is not surprising given his character.

Diego Costa was at the training ground and did not train despite not having any injury or at least Atletico has not revealed any.