Eden Hazard

[Jase 43,479]

True. Sunderland are absolutely dire but that's literally exactly the kind of match we usually lose. When everyone (including our players it seems) expects us to just blow a terrible side out of the water but we lose.

That is a valid concern given our results against the lesser teams but would like to think we are still strong enough at the Bridge to beat Sunderland and we'll likely need to be patient in breaking them down. Gus Poyet has played with a back 5 recently away to Liverpool and Spurs.

[yuvala 2,167]

How can you guys say that last night showed that we're NOT depended on him ?

Have u seen the way we played? It was as if we had Drogba upfront ..

There weren't many open play kind of "creative" chances like we must have in most games. That's why we turned to other options and didn't really play our usual game.

[Jase 43,479]

Chelsea await full medical verdict on Eden Hazard's calf strain

[robdog 2,084]

True. Sunderland are absolutely dire but that's literally exactly the kind of match we usually lose. When everyone (including our players it seems) expects us to just blow a terrible side out of the water but we lose.

Like the first time we played them 《_《

[Jambo 231]

PSG were scared of Hazard. Two players on home the whole time he was on. So it slightly opened up a little when he went off. The French arrogance underestimated the capability of Willian, Oscar and Schurlle.

[hjperdeath 2,226]

[Special Juan 27,424]

Yawn

[duo11bluecl 207]

At the end of the day like I said if he wants to go and we get offered over £100m he can go, actually that applies to anyone in our team. If they are really good(Oscar, Hazard...etc) and crazy teams like PSG want them they need to pay over the odd and the players demand to leave, they can go. We are big enough to attract players of similar calibers, just because Hazard goes doesn't mean we will regress, we will replace him with Gritzemann or Reus or whoever.

What is the point of worrying about rumors? If he goes we will replace him because no one is bigger than the club. But as it already been show, it is most likely invented and he is atm happy here. This also applies to Luiz and co. So don't worry about any rumors regarding our players, it is very unlikely to happen and if it does, the club/Jose will always make sure we are in a win-win situation always like he done in the past with Ibra at Inter.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Hazard has been brilliant, but for me he has had dips in form over the season where at times he looked lost. Now I am not for one minute saying he shouldn't have these dips but if we are putting Hazard in this so called 'World Class' bracket or one of the 'Elite' his dips in form and consistency need to level out. There has been games this season such as Palace where he didn't feature and struggled to take the game by the neck, the so called 'Elite' do this, especially the like of Ronaldo, Messi and Suarez.

Again, I am not saying he has been poor at all, he's been magnificent for us. I am also adamant he will become an elite player he has all the tools to do so. We also should be very proud he plays for us, the ceiling and future for Hazard is huge. This lad also deserves to have a world class forward to feed.....the future is bright.

Lost in all of this is the fact that Hazard is 23! Not in the best moment of his career by a long shot... Also, please stop comparing him to Ronaldo and Messi! Those two are generational talents who are amongst the top 10 ever to play the game. Hazard falls into the slot of players that compare with Ribery, Del Piero, Xavi, Iniesta,

Stoichkov, Gullit to name a few. He is a candidate for the Ballon D'or but not generational talent.

Allow him the time and space to write his own history without killing it by making silly comparisons that don't make sense.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

No player is bigger than the badge. If in fact Hazard wants to go play for that shitty little team that got murked in the Champs League q-finals by his current team then by all means go.

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

Hazard already made it clear he doesn't wanna leave so why are people still talking like he does ?

[Tomo 21,733]

No he hasn't. bale literally carried spurs on his back the entire season and showed the type of consistency (productivity and key contribution wise) only rivaled or surpassed by RVP last season, Suarez this year and CR7 in 07/08 in recent memory as i'm sure Henry,Cantona et al have had similar or better years themselves. Hazard has been no where as consistent and as influential.

Drogba 09/10?

[Mustafa 885]

Still no official word on his injury ?

I'm anxious af out here !!!

[Tomo 21,733]

I have always said the one man team term is deceptive.

Liverpool's record without Suarez in his 10 game ban was won 7 drew 2, 09/10 every man and his dog said we won't cope without Drogba and we won every game he didn't play.

When the 'one man team' is out other's feel a higher sense off responsibility, you felt that with Schurrle and Willian vs PSG and when Drogba was away, Anelka always filled in and brung home the bacon.

[Jase 43,479]

This is getting more silly than Twilight..

[MAF 162]

I saw that interview. They basically asked him to compare Eden to Ibra, to witch he replied that they were very different players but at the same time complimentary. It's a combination of French journalists asking suggestive questions and the British journalists then misinterpreting / mistranslating in order to stir shit up and get clicks.

don't worry. he's not going anywhere in the next 2 years atleast imo.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

It would be a great shame if our best player doesn't win the Chelsea POTY award. Like I've suspected all along since he joined us, Hazard has become a victim of his own greatness. It seems some people are never satisfied with his contribution. He can't have a "good" game anymore. It's either he has to be amazing or "inconsistent". Also, some of our fans have become fairly paranoid about him leaving the club even though he's shown nothing buy loyalty to us since he joined, even kissing the badge against Liverpool (whatever that means nowadays). Invariably, he gets blamed for such meaningless things such as wearing a PSG jersey and the comments about his wife deciding on his future, though it was clearly said in jest. What most people choose not to realize is that most of it is garbage fueled by the French media who are desperate for a player of his calibre to return to the French league, which he dominated.

Now to may main point. Hazard has scored 17 goals this season. More goals than the likes of Ribery, Robben, Neymar, Sanchez, Pedro, Di Maria and just 1 less than Reus and Bale have. All these world-class wingers play in easier leagues too and none of them are the undisputed stars of their team. They share the attacking workload with players of similar quality. Also, these players play in leagues and for teams that make life easier for attacking players to bolster their stats in. The same can't be said about Hazard with Chelsea this season.

Hazard has created an incredible (95) chances for his teammates, the highest of any player in Europe's top 5 leagues and he's not even a playmaker like the Ozil's, and Silva's! What's even more astonishing about this statistic is that only 8 of these chances have been converted to assists. This says a lot about our wastefulness in front of goal and our poor quality of strikers, specifically Torres this season. It also represents our poor early season style of play or lack thereof, where we struggling to open up lanes for the attacking players and the passing was slow and ponderous. Of course, the inclusion of Matic has improved our playing style a lot as the guy can dictate play from deep and his passes (mostly vertical) are played with ferocious pace and intent.

Consider that Hazard had 20 assists last season, though admittedly, it took him 60+ games to do that. Now if Hazard played for a team that had a striker, he would probably have had 20 assists in 40+ games this season, a number that matches his extraordinary creative outlay. Then maybe the ignorant people who think the "assists" stats tells you all you need to know about a player's creative output would have a rethink. You hear some clueless Liverpool fans say that Luis Suarez is a more creative player than Hazard because he has more assists than him.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Another thing is that he's a match-winner and a big game player. He was the star against European Champions, Bayern, though he spent majority of the game playing on the counter and chasing shadows. The star against Liverpool and his wonder goal sparked the comeback. Was unplayable in that classic game vs City. Superb against Gala as well. He also won us the points against the likes of Hull, Norwich, Swansea, Schalke and so on. If not for him, we will struggle to make top four. Some say he was "poor" from Aug-November but wasn't the Bayern match in these months? Norwich, Cardiff, Schalke, West Brom all in these months too. Was he also "poor" these games? The reality is that all our attacking players were suffering because we were still struggling to adapt to Jose's ideas and tactics. Remember how the media was already saying Jose had lost it and stuff. Hazard was getting double, tripled teamed by some teams because these teams could see we were struggling to play any sort of cohesive football and shafted our greatest creative threat. Martinez was the first coach to realize this.

Also, Bale was anonymous for the first half of the season when he won Spurs POTY and league POTY, but that didn't stop Spurs fans and the PL from unanimously voting for him. Spurs fans could have easily voted for Vertognhen because he was consistent throughout, but they voted for their best player and match winner, why can't we?

It will be a great shame if Hazard doesn't get recognition by the fans of this football club after his amazing year. If he doesn't win the award then what chance does he have of winning the big individual awards? It's funny how some people go for Hazard as PL POTY but these same people go for someone else for CFC POTY. Mata won this award back to back after having two inferior (yes) seasons compared to Hazard's this season. The boy for some reason is getting under-appreciated by our fans and it upsets me. I also feel deep down that he will be very upset if he doesn't win Chelsea POTY. Winning this is very important to his development as the face of the CFC brand because of the media attention such an award gets. The kid doesn't even get the attention he deserves yet compared to some of his overrated age-mates (Gotze, Neymar). It will be bizzare if Hazard is in the premier league team of the year and Azpilicueta is not then Azpilicueta wins CFC POTY.

Many people on twitter are voting for Azpilicueta. I GET Azpilicueta, I appreciate his work in an unfamiliar position. He is an AMAZING fullback, but he is not our best player this season and more importantly, he is NOT a match-winner, mostly because of the position he plays. I was calling for him to be our RB early in the season when he couldn't even get into the team. I think we would be a top 4 team without Azpi in the team but we won't be one without Hazard. I also don't see what makes a guy like Cahill any more or less deserving than Azpilicueta, tbh. Azpi was not even a starter in the team till November.

Hazard should be Chelsea's Player of the year and Azpilicueta should be the Player's player of the year. That is fair and just to both guys.

http://www.chelseafc.com/player-of-the-year (Votes)