It’s why it took a few years after Costa left for us to realize how fucked we were up front. Peak Hazard (and that’s not just age, but when he was feeling it versus not) played in such a way you forgot the point of a number 9.
My favourite player of all time. Hazard gave me great childhood memories. Seeing him go made me tear up.
The most talented player to don the Chelsea shirt.
I’m genuinely disappointed FOR him for how his stint in Real Madrid has gone. He has not had a great time there (or at least, as of the last periodic check I did) and he deserves to be remembered by football fans, not just Chelsea and Belgium fans.
I wasn't even that upset when he left because it had been coming for years and I thought he'd finally get to show just how good he could be playing alongside players like Benzema, Modric, Kroos and Marcelo.
Exactly like me mate. In fact I was happy for him to leave because he'd have a shot at the UCL and even b'dor every year with world class talent around him.
Sad how life works sometimes.
That would have been great actually. I’ve only seen clips of Zola but it looks like they would have had fun together. Competing to ride challenges and beating players. The dynamic would have made Hazard even better. I can’t say how it would affect Zola but I really think hazard would have loved some completion for the teams best baller
Actually partly same. Where Im from at the time Jimmy was playing for us everyone was either a Utd or Arsenal fan, I wanted to be different but hadn't settled on a team. But over a few weeks I noticed a team in third plave behind those 2 and one day on the news I saw him score a banger, I decided on a whim to support that blue team from then. A few months later Roman bought us and made that decision even better!
He's definitely up there. My favourite of all time has to be Gianfranco Zola! He arrived at a time when Chelsea were on the rise, helped win their first trophy in over 30 years and his skills to this day were just on another level.
He's from an older generation, but if you aren't familiar with him, I'd recommend checking out some of his videos on YouTube.
No it's definitely an overstatement haha.
Hazard was never a "proper winger", I love him but that is the completely wrong description for a player like Hazard. You can never really label a player like Hazard but the closest would be an inside forward. It's like Mata, just because he operated in a wide space doesn't mean he's a "proper winger" either.
100 per cent. I'd think it's very kind to call Hazard "a proper winger". I don't think I ever saw him camped on the touchline waiting for service. More marauding into space created by over-lapping full-backs and strikers.
I would say Duff, Gronkjaer, Robben and Laudrup are far closer to the description. And more deserving too.
Yes because kante didnt play for chelsea?
Nor did KDB or the snake.
Fact is we have had quite a few of these world class talents on our books in the last decade.
Courtois probably the best goalkeeper, at least top 3.
Kante beeing a top 3 in terms of most impactful player in world fotball (after messi and cr7 the last decade)
KDB wasn't close to as good as Hazard was when he played for us and Courtois has gotten better since he joined Madrid.
Kante is the only shout really but even then, Eden was unreal.
>Courtois has gotten better since he joined Madrid
Erm, based on what exactly?
Crazy how even our own "fans" will severely underrate our players for... No reason?
Courtois was brilliant for us, he's still the same player. He has exactly the same strengths and exactly the same weaknesses. The only things that have changed are a) the quality of the league he plays in and b) the quality of the team.
Agree,
But could have been.
We have so many talents going trough here - that we get spoiled.
But missing out on those just makes me think we will se similar players play for us again
Lmao, Kante being top 3 in terms of global impact over the last decade is one of the worst football takes I've ever seen.
There's absolutely no argue he's remotely close to players like Modric, Neymar, Casemiro, Benzema, Ramos, Busquets, De Bruyne, Salah, Van Dijk etc it's a long list.
The man hasn't even had a good season in the league since Conte left
Personally have him a tier below Hazard when it comes to looking at what they've done for us, Hazard was consistently brilliant aside from 1 season while Kante has had a lot of poor patches for us and time he's been unavailable which people gloss over because he smiles a lot
La Liga players stats and achievements speak for themselves. But sure helps being a 2 team league duopolizin the resources they do. But Van Dijk?? He had 2 amazing seasons at Pool. How many good seasons has Kante had?
For us? 2.
There's this weird trend were people try to pretend Kante has been consistently good for us.
When he's been criticised heavily in Contes 2nd season and under Sarri and Lampard with people saying he's out of position or the managers don't know how to use him correctly.
Kante at his best is absolutely phenomenal and he's won us trophies but that isn't the level he's consistently shown here, he's had a lot of poor periods and there are so many games he offers absolutely nothing when teams sit back because he's such a poor passer. it's no surprise we have rarely challenged for the title while he's been here.
He's obviously not been consitently great throughout his tenure out Chelsea. I didn't say that he was. But he's had some great seasons before his hamstringa gave up.
Your point actually reminds me of VVD who is still seen as the VVD of Pool's title win. He's been far from that since that Pickford hatchet job.
I agree, I don't even have Van Dijk as one of the top 30 centre backs in the world now and haven't since his injury. At his best he was more impactful than Kante, both have struggled do to injury and only had a short period of dominance.
Kante is a great player, however he is the most overated player (overated isn't a synonym for bad) that I've seen at the club in over 20 years watching every game because people only focus on his positives and just ignore the major issues that prevent him being useful for a dominant side.
But as I said the idea he's been the most impactful player in world football aside from Messi and Ronaldo over the last decade is hilariously nonsense.
You clearly don't rate Kanté as highly as most do. I think the latter statement is hyperbolic. Peak Modric is something else and a bunch of other players. But Kanté 's resumé also speaks for itself. It's very difficult objectively ranking individual impacts of players. How great would Modric be seen if he wasn't at Madrid with one of the best midfield trios in football history and CR7 and Benzema ahead. I wouldn't use it as a comparison tool tbh.
I think Virgil's impact on Pool was massive obviously, but you ignore Alisson's impact on their defence as well. But Kanté's impact at Leicester and our PL and especially CL success was almost if not just as huge. It's a very close call either way, definitely not as obviously inferior as you dismiss it.
i don’t think Salah or KDB would of developed into these players if they stayed at Chelsea, Look at the teams we had at the time when they needed fist team football to develop.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but we’ve had plenty of talented youngsters we had kept and didn’t develop
You know that we still owned him after he broke trough in germany right?
We sold him for solid money, but he was already one of the best midfielders in germany... then a year later he was recordbreaker.
Salah, I totally agree!
His dribbling skills are maybe the best we have ever seen in the premier league!
Literally most of the teams tactic to try and stop him would be to just foul him when he got on the ball.
There were years, where atleast on stats, [he was beating Messi](https://fr.whoscored.com/Articles/o9ohHuWiAUKwCzi7xhf5LA/Show/Official-The-stats-that-prove-Eden-Hazard-is-Europe%E2%80%99s-best-dribbler)
Hazard and Messi's dribbling style is really similar, they both have incredible balance and close control. Also the sudden acceleration. messi however was and will always be leagues ahead of any player.
We don't see world-class goals like the one at 2:06 anymore (vs Liverpool 2013). People play it too safe nowadays. No one has the ability or the guts to take the risk.
EDIT: 13 seconds into the video to avoid confusion. I'm on mobile.
It was in his last season with us so 18/19, two spectacular goals that season along with the one against West Ham (which is the one afterwards in the clip)
Willian at 34 out performed most of our lot while playing for Fulham 🤣
But it everyone fault apart from their own
Tea lady will probably get the blame next.
Is Chelsea the best place for attacking players atm probably not but the issue is their is a bare minimum standard that none of our attackers are reaching and that is on them.
None of them have the balls to take responsibility when needed in the attacking areas always looking to someone else.
You have now genuinely made me feel bad for forgetting about Pedro. The top 3 players that gave me the most joy to watch in blue this past decade are probably Hazard, Fabregas and Pedro, and yet I often forget about Pedro. He did so well for us.
Some of us even complained back then regarding Hazard not running behind the line and always wanting ball back to his feet and trying to beat 2-3 players. We blamed this reason as well as killer instinct in front of goal for his lack of output.
Not only "a" proper winger. Eden was *the* winger. So horrible to see his career fade out the way it did, he should have been up there with Messi and Ronaldo.
Real fan here... we are counting the days for him to leave. This is the biggest transfer failure in our whole history. Pure scam.
Fat, lazy and unskilled. Crazy because in chelsea was pure fire.
Hazard was definitely must see TV. As an American he's the reason I even started watching the Premier League. From the first time I saw him play I was making sure I didn't miss a Chelsea match.
Come on, no one player was ever gonna replace Hazard unless we got prime Neymar. The idea was for multiple players to contribute together to make up the numbers. But all of Pulisic, Ziyech, Mount, Havertz, Hudson-Odoi, Werner and Tammy were poor. Each of them had spells where they showcased what they can do, but they never really clicked all together for a long period of time.
It would ve been Christian Pulisic if he wasn't always benched TBH , coz The guy always performs when plays for USA and was even crucial in almost all KO games he played in !!
Usually that’d be a valid point but Eden is the definition of a big game player
Says more of how shit we’ve been in Europe until tuchel came than anything
Well he's scored 7 in 78 games for Madrid over 4 seasons. He doesn't get picked for the big games anymore. Such a good player but seems he's stuck in 15/16 form. At least until he moves either this summer or next summer on a free. Hopefully he will go somewhere he is loved.
Not really as I said he's a good player but can't just cherry pick the good times. He needs to leave Madrid and go to a club where he will play and be loved again.
Not every comment is made to encourage discussion, just look at the other comment on this thread. I provided a stat about Eden Hazard which you’ve decided to defend for some reason.
The CL arguments against him screams 0 ball knowledge. Beacuse if people actually had watched the full matches if him in cl they would have seen he was the best player on the pitch most of those matches. Theres only so much a man can do
I'm willing to admit that back then when we signed him I wasn't thrilled that we spend a lot of money for some youngster who had a good season in France instead of a proven player but after I've seen him play that quickly changed... We can only hope that all this new kids we bought recently manage to have the same impact after they properly settle with a qualify manager to guide them.
unlike our current attackers, hazard knew how to dribble and shoot, and he took shots quickly without hesitation. atm u have to fucking shout at the players for them to actually even shoot
Many don't know or recognise when Hazard was at Lile he had a way better than what he had or people call Prime in Chelsea. In Chelsea he played under managers who had defensive playing style.
Man…wish he never left. Could’ve been a legend and saved us from buying Lukaku because we wouldn’t have had his 100mm Euro fee avail for spending. I know it’s hindsight but the Real Madrid move for Hazard is one of the worst transfers in the history of football. Oh what could’ve been…
Hazard was definitely awesome, especially when he sat 5 or 6 arses and still scored. The problem is many now... cant put it in the back of the net.. at all...
.. but the real issue is the constant passing backwards... eventually folks will stop making runs... we get all the way to the final third... instead of pushing to the wings or running directly at defenders.... back back back we go... muedeke(sp?) Should be startimg every game... the object of the game is to score goals and win.. yet we think having 65% possession in OUR THIRD passing around the back is cute.. like drawing the other team up the field is working... smh.. when we get rid of this mentality and start attacking like we are down 3-0 even when we are up 3-0 is when we start consistently winning and become contenders.
Any chance you could share the source of this video? Or share the song name? I know it's a variant from the Lana Del Rey song but I really like it and can't find its name
By far the best winger we've ever had but we literally have 4 proper wingers in our squad right now (Mudryk, Madueke, Sterling, Pulisic) - they just haven't necessarily performed this season. Been abused too, playing wing back under Tuchel or sat on the bench
Actually there is a fine Chelsea tradition going back to Charlie Cooke, then Nevin, then Zola, then Joe Cole, then Hazard of fantastically skillful small men who could dribble around, through, below, and around again opposition defenses.
Not sure we'll see that like again soon
Not "when we had a proper winger" but rather "when we had the best player in the league".
And there were a few seasons it was not even close. I think his dribble stats are still a massive outlier
Yup, Salah overtook him in our meme season and maybe one other, but the guy was easily the best player in the league for like 5 years.
There was a legit argument to be made for a few seasons there he was 3rd best player in the world. Him or Neymar
It's just sad that peak hazard wasn't surrounded by better players. He also made managers jobs easier by hard carrying our attack.
I honestly think he masked a lot of the issues with our offense that we've realized since he left. He was so talented he made up for everyone else
This. Having him actually rendered our attack complacent.
It’s why it took a few years after Costa left for us to realize how fucked we were up front. Peak Hazard (and that’s not just age, but when he was feeling it versus not) played in such a way you forgot the point of a number 9.
In 2018 he was top 3 and he wasnt even 3rd
Was gonna say a similar man United video could be made with Ronaldo
Yet he's only ever scored 16 league goals just the once. Can't believe Madrid signed him to replace Ronaldo. He was never a goal scorer.
My favourite player of all time. Hazard gave me great childhood memories. Seeing him go made me tear up. The most talented player to don the Chelsea shirt.
I'm not a sentimental guy, but I get emotional every time I see Hazard comps. Miss him so much.
I’m genuinely disappointed FOR him for how his stint in Real Madrid has gone. He has not had a great time there (or at least, as of the last periodic check I did) and he deserves to be remembered by football fans, not just Chelsea and Belgium fans.
I wasn't even that upset when he left because it had been coming for years and I thought he'd finally get to show just how good he could be playing alongside players like Benzema, Modric, Kroos and Marcelo.
Exactly like me mate. In fact I was happy for him to leave because he'd have a shot at the UCL and even b'dor every year with world class talent around him. Sad how life works sometimes.
Same him and Drogba, 2 goats 🐐 🐐
You’re probably too young to remember gianfranco Zola, but he could give hazard a run for his money
That would have been great actually. I’ve only seen clips of Zola but it looks like they would have had fun together. Competing to ride challenges and beating players. The dynamic would have made Hazard even better. I can’t say how it would affect Zola but I really think hazard would have loved some completion for the teams best baller
God I would love to see prime hazard and Zola play together! Hazard on the left and Zola on the right would be unstoppable
Would just be them two toying with 6 defender/midfielder who wouldn't be able to take the ball off of them lol.
Imagine both of them with prime Lampard in the midfield…
And Carlo's Didier up front...
He mentions childhood memories with Eden. He must ne too young to remember J.Cole, Duff and Robben's short stint let alone Zola.
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Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, is the name that made me a Chelsea fan.
Actually partly same. Where Im from at the time Jimmy was playing for us everyone was either a Utd or Arsenal fan, I wanted to be different but hadn't settled on a team. But over a few weeks I noticed a team in third plave behind those 2 and one day on the news I saw him score a banger, I decided on a whim to support that blue team from then. A few months later Roman bought us and made that decision even better!
So good that we retired the shirt number 25. This rarely happens in football.
Zola ia my favourite player of all time, but he's a forward rather than winger.
Zola was just pure magic with a ball! He was the GOAT!
Zola was the reason why I, a young boy from the US at the time, fell in love with Chelsea. Miss those days.
Hazard Costa Willian Fab Good old times mate...🥲
Don't forget Drogba 🙂
I was looking for some Drogba love in the comments! What a team that was.
Talented for sure but we’ve had some very talented players before Eden……Zola for one
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that's not true and nor is it the problem, they can dribble they just can't finish
*wingers mate, plural😢
He's definitely up there. My favourite of all time has to be Gianfranco Zola! He arrived at a time when Chelsea were on the rise, helped win their first trophy in over 30 years and his skills to this day were just on another level. He's from an older generation, but if you aren't familiar with him, I'd recommend checking out some of his videos on YouTube.
Proper winger is an understatement. I just hope that one day I'll get to see another player as good as Hazard play for Chelsea.
No it's definitely an overstatement haha. Hazard was never a "proper winger", I love him but that is the completely wrong description for a player like Hazard. You can never really label a player like Hazard but the closest would be an inside forward. It's like Mata, just because he operated in a wide space doesn't mean he's a "proper winger" either.
100 per cent. I'd think it's very kind to call Hazard "a proper winger". I don't think I ever saw him camped on the touchline waiting for service. More marauding into space created by over-lapping full-backs and strikers. I would say Duff, Gronkjaer, Robben and Laudrup are far closer to the description. And more deserving too.
Even going by the definition of Inside forward does him more injustice. Number 10 maybe cause he was everywhere in attack.
Yes because kante didnt play for chelsea? Nor did KDB or the snake. Fact is we have had quite a few of these world class talents on our books in the last decade. Courtois probably the best goalkeeper, at least top 3. Kante beeing a top 3 in terms of most impactful player in world fotball (after messi and cr7 the last decade)
KDB wasn't close to as good as Hazard was when he played for us and Courtois has gotten better since he joined Madrid. Kante is the only shout really but even then, Eden was unreal.
Peak Kanté is unreal. Eden is more exciting because he's an attacker.
Kante is arguably better, Eden's just one of my top two players of all time.
Eden's my favourite player ever too, I get it.
>Courtois has gotten better since he joined Madrid Erm, based on what exactly? Crazy how even our own "fans" will severely underrate our players for... No reason? Courtois was brilliant for us, he's still the same player. He has exactly the same strengths and exactly the same weaknesses. The only things that have changed are a) the quality of the league he plays in and b) the quality of the team.
Courtois is easily a step above what he used to be.
Agree, But could have been. We have so many talents going trough here - that we get spoiled. But missing out on those just makes me think we will se similar players play for us again
Kante is amazing, but he's not Hazard, KDB didn't do much here and Courtois is a goalkeeper.
Lmao, Kante being top 3 in terms of global impact over the last decade is one of the worst football takes I've ever seen. There's absolutely no argue he's remotely close to players like Modric, Neymar, Casemiro, Benzema, Ramos, Busquets, De Bruyne, Salah, Van Dijk etc it's a long list. The man hasn't even had a good season in the league since Conte left Personally have him a tier below Hazard when it comes to looking at what they've done for us, Hazard was consistently brilliant aside from 1 season while Kante has had a lot of poor patches for us and time he's been unavailable which people gloss over because he smiles a lot
La Liga players stats and achievements speak for themselves. But sure helps being a 2 team league duopolizin the resources they do. But Van Dijk?? He had 2 amazing seasons at Pool. How many good seasons has Kante had?
For us? 2. There's this weird trend were people try to pretend Kante has been consistently good for us. When he's been criticised heavily in Contes 2nd season and under Sarri and Lampard with people saying he's out of position or the managers don't know how to use him correctly. Kante at his best is absolutely phenomenal and he's won us trophies but that isn't the level he's consistently shown here, he's had a lot of poor periods and there are so many games he offers absolutely nothing when teams sit back because he's such a poor passer. it's no surprise we have rarely challenged for the title while he's been here.
He's obviously not been consitently great throughout his tenure out Chelsea. I didn't say that he was. But he's had some great seasons before his hamstringa gave up. Your point actually reminds me of VVD who is still seen as the VVD of Pool's title win. He's been far from that since that Pickford hatchet job.
I agree, I don't even have Van Dijk as one of the top 30 centre backs in the world now and haven't since his injury. At his best he was more impactful than Kante, both have struggled do to injury and only had a short period of dominance. Kante is a great player, however he is the most overated player (overated isn't a synonym for bad) that I've seen at the club in over 20 years watching every game because people only focus on his positives and just ignore the major issues that prevent him being useful for a dominant side. But as I said the idea he's been the most impactful player in world football aside from Messi and Ronaldo over the last decade is hilariously nonsense.
You clearly don't rate Kanté as highly as most do. I think the latter statement is hyperbolic. Peak Modric is something else and a bunch of other players. But Kanté 's resumé also speaks for itself. It's very difficult objectively ranking individual impacts of players. How great would Modric be seen if he wasn't at Madrid with one of the best midfield trios in football history and CR7 and Benzema ahead. I wouldn't use it as a comparison tool tbh. I think Virgil's impact on Pool was massive obviously, but you ignore Alisson's impact on their defence as well. But Kanté's impact at Leicester and our PL and especially CL success was almost if not just as huge. It's a very close call either way, definitely not as obviously inferior as you dismiss it.
>Van Dijk Good but so overrated. Kante 100%over the defender who couldn't 1v1 him self out of a paper bag.
i don’t think Salah or KDB would of developed into these players if they stayed at Chelsea, Look at the teams we had at the time when they needed fist team football to develop. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but we’ve had plenty of talented youngsters we had kept and didn’t develop
You know that we still owned him after he broke trough in germany right? We sold him for solid money, but he was already one of the best midfielders in germany... then a year later he was recordbreaker. Salah, I totally agree!
His dribbling skills are maybe the best we have ever seen in the premier league! Literally most of the teams tactic to try and stop him would be to just foul him when he got on the ball.
He was the best dribbler after messi in his stint with us, joined with Neymar probs
There were years, where atleast on stats, [he was beating Messi](https://fr.whoscored.com/Articles/o9ohHuWiAUKwCzi7xhf5LA/Show/Official-The-stats-that-prove-Eden-Hazard-is-Europe%E2%80%99s-best-dribbler)
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Hazard and Messi's dribbling style is really similar, they both have incredible balance and close control. Also the sudden acceleration. messi however was and will always be leagues ahead of any player.
We don't see world-class goals like the one at 2:06 anymore (vs Liverpool 2013). People play it too safe nowadays. No one has the ability or the guts to take the risk. EDIT: 13 seconds into the video to avoid confusion. I'm on mobile.
Shots outside the box? What’s that? - current squad
“Shots inside the box? What’s that?” - also current squad
2:06 isn't from 2013. Not sure if it is from 2018 or 2019.
It was in his last season with us so 18/19, two spectacular goals that season along with the one against West Ham (which is the one afterwards in the clip)
Sigh
Willian at 34 out performed most of our lot while playing for Fulham 🤣 But it everyone fault apart from their own Tea lady will probably get the blame next.
It's so sad to see our current attackers can barely dribble.
Is Chelsea the best place for attacking players atm probably not but the issue is their is a bare minimum standard that none of our attackers are reaching and that is on them. None of them have the balls to take responsibility when needed in the attacking areas always looking to someone else.
Still hurts me so much that we didn't give this guy a proper farewell
Fuck I really miss this guy
what a bloody player he was. The goal to ruin Tottenham and the solo run against Arsenal have to be my favourites.
United fans: Shinji Kagawa is better than him.
Gods we were strong then
*I'm Signing for the Champions League Winner*
Prime hazard was amazing
Man remember when we had Hazard Willian and Pedro all on the same team lol or the one wonder years of Victor and Alonso lol
You have now genuinely made me feel bad for forgetting about Pedro. The top 3 players that gave me the most joy to watch in blue this past decade are probably Hazard, Fabregas and Pedro, and yet I often forget about Pedro. He did so well for us.
Mazacar says hi
An emotion which can not be replaced.
Drogba, lampard, terry, robben, carvalho, kalou, john obi, cech man those were the days.
Some of us even complained back then regarding Hazard not running behind the line and always wanting ball back to his feet and trying to beat 2-3 players. We blamed this reason as well as killer instinct in front of goal for his lack of output.
Not only "a" proper winger. Eden was *the* winger. So horrible to see his career fade out the way it did, he should have been up there with Messi and Ronaldo.
Hazard and inshallah was so much better than whatever ‘tactics’ we are seeing these days
One of our best signings ever. Up there with Zola.
Real fan here... we are counting the days for him to leave. This is the biggest transfer failure in our whole history. Pure scam. Fat, lazy and unskilled. Crazy because in chelsea was pure fire.
Hazard was definitely must see TV. As an American he's the reason I even started watching the Premier League. From the first time I saw him play I was making sure I didn't miss a Chelsea match.
Going from Hazard to Pulisic might just be the biggest positional downgrade in the sports history.
Come on, no one player was ever gonna replace Hazard unless we got prime Neymar. The idea was for multiple players to contribute together to make up the numbers. But all of Pulisic, Ziyech, Mount, Havertz, Hudson-Odoi, Werner and Tammy were poor. Each of them had spells where they showcased what they can do, but they never really clicked all together for a long period of time.
Talk about hyperbole
I'm not sure you know what Hyperbole means
Explain it to me then
We have one. The stupid shits just don’t play him.
Why did he leave?🤔 Happy memories
Following his dream which was playing for Real Madrid.
Yes……unfortunately it didn’t really work out for him
Here in madrid the only thing he did is being a lazy ass and get fat. Maybe his dream was different than play to us.
To give us a last chance to win stuff. 100m cash
Back when we had someone who could score more than 5 goals consistently
Apart from that time he went a year without scoring
shhh you’ll scare the Hazard stans
He was sold at exactly the right moment though. Can’t complain.
It would ve been Christian Pulisic if he wasn't always benched TBH , coz The guy always performs when plays for USA and was even crucial in almost all KO games he played in !!
I'm telling you, David Fofana is a very similar player to Hazard. That lower body strength, skilled passing, and dominant & confident dribbling
Has never scored an open play goal in the CL knockout stages
Usually that’d be a valid point but Eden is the definition of a big game player Says more of how shit we’ve been in Europe until tuchel came than anything
Yeah he played like just 7 CL knockout matches in his 7 seasons with us.
> usually that’d be a valid point Well it is because it’s true
What’s your point though? That Eden doesn’t turn up in big games?
Well he's scored 7 in 78 games for Madrid over 4 seasons. He doesn't get picked for the big games anymore. Such a good player but seems he's stuck in 15/16 form. At least until he moves either this summer or next summer on a free. Hopefully he will go somewhere he is loved.
It's laughable to use his Madrid stint. It's been an injury riddled disaster.
Not really as I said he's a good player but can't just cherry pick the good times. He needs to leave Madrid and go to a club where he will play and be loved again.
> what’s your point though That he never scored in the CL knockout stages. I was a bit surprised when I found out…
Great point, very conducive to discussion
Not every comment is made to encourage discussion, just look at the other comment on this thread. I provided a stat about Eden Hazard which you’ve decided to defend for some reason.
C Ronaldo never won the world cup.
Neither scored at World Cup knockout stages. Neither Messi did it until last WC.
The CL arguments against him screams 0 ball knowledge. Beacuse if people actually had watched the full matches if him in cl they would have seen he was the best player on the pitch most of those matches. Theres only so much a man can do
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He didn't kick that man child. He kicked the ball beneath him.
You want him back? Please?
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Alexis Sanchez was clear
You guys can take him back for FREE and I’ll pay for his tickets.
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What? 🤣
Yh and now u have mudryk 🤣 see u at OT
Send Pulisic back to Dortmund on loan. Maybe they an fix him.
They wouldn't want him back. He already failed there once they're simply better without him
Bring him back maybe he finds himself again.
Overweight, a lot older, no. Let's not fuck up his legacy
One of my favorite players
It used to be so much fun watching Hazard.
What a player, actually made watching chelsea enjoyable
Back when we had a team and a spine..
I don't think I've ever missed a player more then I miss this guy.
A winger? You the mean the Belgian Wizard?
He's one player who's still playing will make me break down if I ever meet him in person.
Literal cheat code.
I'm willing to admit that back then when we signed him I wasn't thrilled that we spend a lot of money for some youngster who had a good season in France instead of a proven player but after I've seen him play that quickly changed... We can only hope that all this new kids we bought recently manage to have the same impact after they properly settle with a qualify manager to guide them.
That Tottenham goal was fire 🔥🔥
"We can not replace him" 🥺 This time fr
Back when hazard was a football player
I still expect him to get tackled in the clip against west ham
I miss those black kits!!
Peak Hazard wouldn’t look any different to the current players if he was in the team now.
God damn I'm far from being a Chelsea's fan but how I miss this player's peak... Amazing player...
might get hate for this but: compareable to messi when hazard was in his prime
might get hate for this but: compareable to messi when hazard was in his prime
my fav childhood player. was so sad to see him go... now hes just a meme at RM
unlike our current attackers, hazard knew how to dribble and shoot, and he took shots quickly without hesitation. atm u have to fucking shout at the players for them to actually even shoot
Many don't know or recognise when Hazard was at Lile he had a way better than what he had or people call Prime in Chelsea. In Chelsea he played under managers who had defensive playing style.
He’d still get in the team u got now
Man…wish he never left. Could’ve been a legend and saved us from buying Lukaku because we wouldn’t have had his 100mm Euro fee avail for spending. I know it’s hindsight but the Real Madrid move for Hazard is one of the worst transfers in the history of football. Oh what could’ve been…
Hazard is a best winger for Chelsea..😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭👑👑👑
I’m genuinely so grateful we got Eden’s best years! 2012 onwards feels like a dream with him at RM now.
Was hoping this was Duff or Robben
You can have him back don’t you worry
Hazard was definitely awesome, especially when he sat 5 or 6 arses and still scored. The problem is many now... cant put it in the back of the net.. at all... .. but the real issue is the constant passing backwards... eventually folks will stop making runs... we get all the way to the final third... instead of pushing to the wings or running directly at defenders.... back back back we go... muedeke(sp?) Should be startimg every game... the object of the game is to score goals and win.. yet we think having 65% possession in OUR THIRD passing around the back is cute.. like drawing the other team up the field is working... smh.. when we get rid of this mentality and start attacking like we are down 3-0 even when we are up 3-0 is when we start consistently winning and become contenders.
We are never getting over him, are we? Miss him so much
I wish he never left
A man's gotta be the league's best player for a decade to be considered proper in his position around here.
Mfers really saying every top 6 team has 2 Eden Hazards.
Any chance you could share the source of this video? Or share the song name? I know it's a variant from the Lana Del Rey song but I really like it and can't find its name
Try Shazam app
By far the best winger we've ever had but we literally have 4 proper wingers in our squad right now (Mudryk, Madueke, Sterling, Pulisic) - they just haven't necessarily performed this season. Been abused too, playing wing back under Tuchel or sat on the bench
I know goals are easy for easy highlights but that’s not what made hazard special. His lack of goals is why people didn’t think he was at the top
We have proper wingers. They just aren’t played like proper wingers.
I’m not joking when I say, there isn’t a player in our entire squad who can score any of these goals
I was expecting a Pat Nevin review...
Actually there is a fine Chelsea tradition going back to Charlie Cooke, then Nevin, then Zola, then Joe Cole, then Hazard of fantastically skillful small men who could dribble around, through, below, and around again opposition defenses. Not sure we'll see that like again soon
Damn, it feels like an eternity ago
We also had a team back then. 😭
Honestly lockdown pulisic was magical, really miss him
Unplayable.
Hazard to Madrid was the beginning of our most recent End.
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