Eden Hazard

[yuvala 2,167]

I hope we stop using him as a false 9.. it really doesn't help bring the best out of him.

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

On 17-12-2017 at 5:15 PM, The Skipper said:

“Deep lying back heel merchant” come back bro.  

Either way, I do agree. F9 Hazard is way too isolated. He isn’t as devistating as Messi in the box and he doesn’t have the right quality around him for it to work properly imo. We looked better with Morata as the focal point.

Agreed. Problem is indeed our setup when playing the false 9. The entire purpose of a false 9 is to create an overload in the midfield area or force a cb to commit to the false 9 leaving just 1 cb to defend the central area, opening up space for runs from wide and deep.

Problem is you gotta force the oppositions midfielders to commit to your midfielders not to mention you gotta have an equal amount of midfielders as your opponent to begin with to create an overload with your false 9.

That simply never happened.

Southampton played in a 5-4-1. Even with Hazard dropping deep they still outnumbered us 4 to 3 in the midfield area. It gets even worse when you realize in our 3-4-3 Kante and Bakayoko have controlling roles and aren't really alllowed to make any forward runs. 

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

I know people have already posted similar things to this and I know people don’t like him playing as a false 9 but if anybody in that forward line is capable of playing that role it’s Hazard. I don’t think Pedro would be suited to this position as somebody suggested.

For me, a false 9 comes off the Center backs and into the space in front of the defence and helps create another man in the MF. He is as much a creator as much as a goal scorer, who possesses the ability to hold onto the ball in tight areas, score goals and is able to create chances for the inverted forwards. 

You look at Messi when he played as a false 9 at Barca he had runners in Pedro, Villa, Sanchez, Cuenca or Tello in the wide forward positions, who would come inside and their movement would either occupy the opposition freeing up space or they’d be able to run into vacant spaces left by players going to engage Messi. Pedro is suited to one of those inverted forward roles for sure but Willian I’m not so sure he comes to the ball a lot more than Pedro although not many teams posses a forward line as good as that Barca one from however many years ago. Until we get a back up striker of adequate quality maybe playing a false 9 as a back up option would be decent but again we would need another wide forward imo. I think the fact you don’t see that system used now a days just shows the lack of players who can occupy that false 9 role effectively. Although I think somebody like Paulo Dybala would be exceptional in that role anywhere especially at a Barca or Madrid.  

 

[Fernando 6,585]

So still no new contract? 

I think he leaves this summer then. 

[Tomo 21,751]

4 hours ago, Mana said:

He's with us until June 2020. There's still a lot of time to sort it out.

Not really, it seeps into player control territory at 2 years, he could feesibly decide his heart is set on going say City and there's fuck all we can do. 

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Can't see any real reason for him wanting to leave, to be honest. He's the big fish in the pond here... he's had a few good games this season but I genuinely couldn't see him starting over Sane or Sterling in Pep's system at the moment, the pair of them are on some serious mushrooms. 

[yuvala 2,167]

2 minutes ago, BlueLion. said:

Can't see any real reason for him wanting to leave, to be honest. He's the big fish in the pond here... he's had a few good games this season but I genuinely couldn't see him starting over Sane or Sterling in Pep's system at the moment, the pair of them are on some serious mushrooms. 

Well its really working for them now.. 

But I can definitely see him starting over Isco at Real Madrid which is where his next destination probably is.. not City.

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

58 minutes ago, BlueLion. said:

Can't see any real reason for him wanting to leave, to be honest. He's the big fish in the pond here... he's had a few good games this season but I genuinely couldn't see him starting over Sane or Sterling in Pep's system at the moment, the pair of them are on some serious mushrooms. 

Maybe the big fish wants more room to swim ?

Ever stop to think that a big reason for Sané and Sterling's form might be Guardiola's sytem ? 

Ofcourse it could just be a coincidence that every single attacking player under Guardiola is currently flourishing in his ultra attacking, heavily focused possession system...

Let's get real though. Hazard would start in Pep's system and he'd flourish there with all the quality around him and possession he'd get.

[Anthon_nini 21]

47 minutes ago, BlueLion. said:

Can't see any real reason for him wanting to leave, to be honest. He's the big fish in the pond here... he's had a few good games this season but I genuinely couldn't see him starting over Sane or Sterling in Pep's system at the moment, the pair of them are on some serious mushrooms. 

Over Sterling or Sane 🙈... Really? Well we are all entitled to our opinions. I’m sure most players, ex players and managers think otherwise. Matter of fact, the only players in City that come close to being mentioned in the same breath as Hazard are KDB and Silva. Hazard will elevate any team in the world atm. Imagine what he does for CFC even without seeing much of the ball and playing from deep. He will be so much more devastating when receiving the ball a lot, in better positions and a lot close to goal. My opinion, unless you’re Messi, Ronaldo or maybe Neymar he certainly will take your place if he comes to your team. His options if he wants to leave are only limited by finances of the buying club and not by if he will get to play much. He seems a loyal guy so that’s a positive for us.

[Tomo 21,751]

15 minutes ago, Belgiannutt said:

Maybe the big fish wants more room to swim ?

Ever stop to think that a big reason for Sané and Sterling's form might be Guardiola's sytem ? 

Ofcourse it could just be a coincidence that every single attacking player under Guardiola is currently flourishing in his ultra attacking, heavily focused possession system...

Let's get real though. Hazard would start in Pep's system and he'd flourish there with all the quality around him and possession he'd get.

He would comfortably be considered 2nd best player in the world (which he is now Ronaldo is finally declining) had he been playing under Pep.

[Special Juan 28,134]

Brilliant video of him and Tibo at The Bridge Kids Xmas party. They had to wear an ear piece and had to follow instructions of what to say and do in front of the kids as a dare.

[communicate 2,703]

26 minutes ago, Belgiannutt said:

Maybe the big fish wants more room to swim ?

Ever stop to think that a big reason for Sané and Sterling's form might be Guardiola's sytem ? 

Ofcourse it could just be a coincidence that every single attacking player under Guardiola is currently flourishing in his ultra attacking, heavily focused possession system...

Let's get real though. Hazard would start in Pep's system and he'd flourish there with all the quality around him and possession he'd get.

I think people look at number too much, sterling may have scored 15 goals this season, but it is impossible to say that he is a better player than hazard if you watch them play

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

17 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Brilliant video of him and Tibo at The Bridge Kids Xmas party. They had to wear an ear piece and had to follow instructions of what to say and do in front of the kids as a dare.

 

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

I like and enjoy Eden Hazard so much for being a Chelsea player.
It's gonna hurt when he leaves.

[Stats 7,142]

11 hours ago, BlueLion. said:

Can't see any real reason for him wanting to leave, to be honest. He's the big fish in the pond here... he's had a few good games this season but I genuinely couldn't see him starting over Sane or Sterling in Pep's system at the moment, the pair of them are on some serious mushrooms. 

Sterling and Sane are having very good seasons, yes but if you swapped both of them for Hazard, City would still be cruising, however Sane or Sterling in Hazard's place and we would be worse off. Sterling, like I said has had a very good season but a lot of his goals are tap-ins due to the creativity and brilliant attacking play in that City team and I am a huge fan of Sterling but Hazard is a much better player even if Sterling has 30 goals by end of season, he is lucky he is playing for a team that will create chances after chances. Hazard most times has to do everything on his own.