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"Chelsea would have been stronger if we kept De Bruyne, he is a great player," Hazard told L'Equipe. "But Mourinho decided to let him go and not play him. "It was not my decision, even though I am certain that he could have thrived at Chelsea because he has tremendous qualities. Though I think at Chelsea you have more pressure than Wolfsburg. "I would have loved to still play with him at Chelsea, but him getting first-team football is good for him - you can see what it's done for Thibaut Courtois. It's a shame he's gone but he'll surely have a successful career." Whoops...

Good goal for him. He needed some confidence from somewhere

Cuadrado has very good technique. He's just not perfect at keeping the ball under pressure but he tries to win a lot of fouls if he knows he'll lose the ball. That's what has not worked for him so far, especially in England where referees have a problem with Chelsea. Even Neymar will look worse than Willian because he can't keep the ball under pressure and will prefer to fall. Give cuadrado 3-4 straight starts and he'll get used to what is required easily imo.

Hazard is far better than Bale, its not even close. If hazard doesn't spend a lot of energy defending and stays upfront,(like he did against westham and tottenham 5-3) he'll be even more deadly and closer to goal to score/assist. The only weakness to his game is throughpasses and making more runs when he's not with the ball and he's already getting better at the later

He has this essien like ability to drive through the middle with the ball with strength and good ball control. He has decent passing and decent long shots, looks like a box to box type of player so if he has stamina he could be better than ramires.

Not sure of his decision making, we could buy him and he'll be shooting instead of passing or crossing instead of passing. I'll rather have reus who we're sure off his fantastic assists and good decisions in attack, with good dribbling too.

Perfect explanation. But I've come to realize that Hazard just isn't the type of guy to take risks and have the glory. I wish he was a bit more selfish especially when his teammates are playing poorly during the match. He only shows this side that you're asking for in the last 20 mins of games when we are losing or when we are looking for the win.(tottenham loss, Maribor, QPr, etc) The similarities between them was the fact that we were loosing or drawing in the 2nd half. If he can play that way in the beginning of matches instead of waiting for then, we'll be in for a treat and his performance would be massive. If I was Mourinho, I'll put a fast workhorse like willian close to hazard to carry out defensive duties for him chasing the fullback and give hazard free role to attack from the left or center. This way he'll have no excuse not to use the energy he's saving to attack full throttle instead of relaxing

It's like people forget he was on the podium among the top 3 world best players

He and pretty much almost similar as the beginning of the season, around the same conversion rate of chances provided to him (26%). We've just not been attacking as we used to in the beginning of the season and the rest of the team all lost form. 6 goals in 7 matches in 2015 for the so called bad form. If he didn't get that 3 match ban, he'll probably have scored 21 goals by now.

He has the strength and skill to hold the ball under pressure, has so much energy to move box to box and can shoot from distance..... I'm in love Not sure about his decision making or passing but if it's anywhere near Matic level we could get him. We need more quality and strength in the middle.

Ah the goal against Everton.My best match of the season till date.

At this rate, I'm not sure he has 3 more seasons to give

Injured again??? Wtf

I agree. Infact ronaldo is the 3rd best player of all time. Just Behind messi and Maradona... Yes I said it

And that's the last time we won the league. People should never underestimate the impact of a top scorer, especially when he doesn't even take penalties

Just realized today is his 28th birthday. Happy birthday!!!

Remember at the beginning of the season where 85% of us were happy if he got 20 epl goals??? He's on 19 already with 9 games left. Could easily get 23goals. I can't remember the last time a Chelsea player got this many at this stage.

Is that one of his best finishes of the season? The one against arsenal was good too

See how Matic sprinted ahead of Ramires to try and stop the cross for hulls first goal while ramires was just jogging back, that was just wrong imo. I feel he could have distracted the crosser from putting in a perfect cross if he put in some desire. He needs to get his positional sense back

No one tops the league scoring charts at this stage of the season (almost April) by being bad. So costa, Kane and aguero are damn good strikers

I hope we sort out that defensive side of our game so that we become more dominant side. I knew we'll never win the Champions League this season when I realized how vulnerable we were against tottenham.

Their start to the season killed them, but if the season started in November they'll be behind us by 2-5 points. They are topping the head to head matches between the top 6 teams (something we were topping last season) Unfortunately for them all english teams are knocked out of the Champions League. Infact they're just 2 points behind title chasing mancity. Their start killed them

See how Matic sprinted ahead of Ramires to try and stop the cross for hulls first goal while ramires was just jogging back, that was just wrong imo. He needs to get his positional sense back

Oh defending a lead...is that even possible in 2015 In the last few games though we tried to keep a high line with the slowest centerback combination of any champions league team I was just lool

Rather bid for reus tbh. We need more intelligent players in our attack. That's not to say bale won't improve us, he will.