🇧🇪 Eden Hazard

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

Guess who's back, back again
Eden's back, tell a friend
Guess who's back, guess who's back,
guess who's back
Guess who's back...

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

Not the best performance, but two goals, can't complain. That will give him his confidence back. He will tear Schalke apart in midweek.

[polo 18]

Not the best performance, but two goals, can't complain. That will give him his confidence back. He will tear Schalke apart in midweek.

and a good pass for Eto'o goal

[ChelseasMessiah 304]

Flashes of brilliance from Eden today, not his best of games but he got the stats to show for. If both are fit, I'd pick him ahead of Schurrle, no question.

[borriske 330]

LOL Hazard has a score of 9.9 on whoscored

http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/720035/Live

BEAT THAT MESSI!!

[The_Flash 1,144]

He was really good today, good goals

[Tchekitchek 37]

I heard he wasn't "that" good if you except the goals?

[meetdoscar 335]

His best 90 minutes in Epl this season but he can play better

[The Skipper 20,609]

I heard he wasn't "that" good if you except the goals?

Nah, his play in general was one of his best this season.

[Jase 43,479]

Nah, his play in general was one of his best this season.

It was arguably his best performance of the season. Looks more positive and sharper today.

[Sheva. 5,373]

I heard he wasn't "that" good if you except the goals?

You heard wrong.

[OneMoSalah 9,094]

Needs to play like this more often, 2 goals and a assist IIRC, need to see this sort of performance more often.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

I think it's interesting to note that his best performance with us in a while came when Bertrand was playing behind him instead of Ash. Ryan, for 60 mins, made forward runs in every single attack, often making overlapping runs to stretch the Cardiff defense. He kept at least one of those two defenders on the right (our left) occupied and gave Eden more room to work with while when Cole plays and rarely makes supporting runs, Eden is left double-marked most of the time.

Not saying that it was all down to that, just that it might have been big factor.

[Jase 43,479]

I think it's interesting to note that his best performance with us in a while came when Bertrand was playing behind him instead of Ash. Ryan, for 60 mins, made forward runs in every single attack, often making overlapping runs to stretch the Cardiff defense. He kept at least one of those two defenders on the right (our left) occupied and gave Eden more room to work with while when Cole plays and rarely makes supporting runs, Eden is left double-marked most of the time.

Not saying that it was all down to that, just that it might have been big factor.

Think that is a valid point. Ronaldo at Madrid, after all, tends to do huge damage on the LW when he had Marcelo bombing up and down that flank all day long to create overlaps, 1-2 plays, distract opponents etc.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Yup. Bring this form to The Bridge now.

He did!

[Stingray 9,441]

He did!

Lol! He did indeed !

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Good to see Eden scoring some goals even if most of them are keeper's mistakes He is definitely starting to look more sharper and fitter which is not good news for our opponents.

[Pascal Newton 33]

He also looks he lost a bit of weight.

[Gilvorak 3,734]

He played well but he still has a tendency to go missing for large sums of the game. Look at an inferior player like Townsend and the aggression/energy he puts into attack or a player who he should eventually become (Ribery) for Bayern.

Mediocre first half (the cutback to Eto'o was piss poor) but he was pretty good in the 2nd. Hope we see more West Ham @ home 12/13 type performances from him this season, just needs to add consistency to his game.

[Barbara 15,149]

I think it's interesting to note that his best performance with us in a while came when Bertrand was playing behind him instead of Ash. Ryan, for 60 mins, made forward runs in every single attack, often making overlapping runs to stretch the Cardiff defense. He kept at least one of those two defenders on the right (our left) occupied and gave Eden more room to work with while when Cole plays and rarely makes supporting runs, Eden is left double-marked most of the time.

Not saying that it was all down to that, just that it might have been big factor.

to be honest Cole has done the same in the two previous matches (I remember seeing him doing that while I was scouting them), but you do have a valid point about Ryan dragging opponents with him. The problem starts when we decide to actually pass him the ball - as imo he's really limited linking up and crossing, but he can drag defenders and he can pass backward.

If Cole can carry his attitude from the last two games he played, Hazard will benefit a lot not only from him dragging opponents like Ryan did, but a slightly better linkup. But it does feel a shame that we have two amazing LW in Eden and André and not a great LFB to keep up with them. Ryan was decent though - which is much better than I expect from him. He seems to be progressing.