Eden Hazard Fan Club

Mourinho is facing the same problem he had at Real minus the fact that Hazard is replaceable whereas Ronaldo isn't. He failed to find a solution at Madrid and I don't think he ever will at Chelsea

Who is Hazard to talk shite like that btw. The guy has two goals in CL in two whole seasons and hasn't scored an open goal in three months. Ok if he was carrying Chelsea on his back and was forced to do something he didn't want to but he has been pretty ordinary and shouldn't have audacity to say things like that. How much of a disgrace can you be talking to the media in a shirt of a club you are rumoured to join . If I was a Chelsea fan and he left it would be god riddance Hazard welcome Schurrle/Lavezzi

sportsczy wrote:Well, which one of the attacking phenoms out there is even asked to track back to the sideline... Oscar? Goetze? Neymar? I mean you can't ask a player that has trained all his life to focus on attacking, helping flow and tracking back to a point (usually pass the player on to a CB or mid after a certain point)... to suddenly become this defensive guru.

And the problem here is that Chelsea park the bus... so you're asking a striker to track back runs behind the CBs to the edge of the touchline and goal. I mean come on. Other than perhaps Ribery when he's on... who does that?

Probably why two third of those don't start much and the other one being horrible.

Who said Hazard should play LB?? but a basic job of an attacking player is to watch his man(in case of a winger he needs to watch the fullback) when he makes a run behind you. Why do you think we made the CL final this season and no the past??? the only ones we added as starters were Carvajal and Bale so it wasn't due to us buying players

Fact is neither Hazard nor Oscar, Gotze or Neymar have done anything in their career to have that freedom. Work for it then talk

sportsczy wrote:@HM2... imagine if we asked Isco to do that kind of deep defending. He'd get killed. We'd rip Isco... but really it would be on Carlo. He's just getting the hang of his basic defensive duties as a CM.. and now you want him track back backdoor runs into the box? He may luck out and stop one here and there. But he will get burnt more often than not.

Now apply that to Hazard. He doesn't even play CM. He's a striker. So you expect a striker to man mark a fullback all the way to the box with no support? Well good luck with that

He did against Barca and Bayern It's not like Chelsea have played like this all season, its only the big games and frankly in a cL semi final for someone to just stare at his man while doing nothing to win the ball back is as disgraceful as it could get

Hazard is a winger and as I said the basic job of a winger is to watch the fullback, there is no worse thing for a fullback than watching teams go 2v1 on them because the winger couldn't be bothered to track back. Very very naive of Hazard

Didn't you think it was good we sold Ozil for he would never track back?? It's the same everywhere, if the winger doesn't track back it spells danger for your team simple as which is why we conceded so many goals before. Our wingers had the same attitude as Hazard and it got us nowhere

sportsczy wrote:I never listened to the interview because, honestly, i don't really care about Hazard that much... but i get annoyed that Mou rips his players whenever Chelsea lose and it's somehow not ok for the players to criticize him if they want to. If you want the players to unconditionally have your back, then you need to do the same for them.

He has been like that everywhere. He is a cancer for any team he coaches because he picks fights with pretty much everyone. Throwing a player under the bus?? That's Mou on his happy day lmao

sportsczy wrote:No he didn't hala... and neither did Bale.  Isco was asked to play in front of Coentrao/Ramos and cover the space.  He did it very well.  He zonal marked... never man marked.  We never had a situation where the entire defense was ball watching and completely forgot the player behind them so we needed a striker to recognize that his defense had fallen asleep and cover the man making a backdoor run.  Or at least not recently.  Neymar did it to us in the La Liga clasico for the PK and Iniesta too in that same game.  Personally, i blamed the fullbacks for not paying attention more than Bale or Ronaldo for not being there...  because i didn't expect Bale or Ronaldo to be there.

Ozil is not a striker.  Hazard is a striker.  We sold Ozil because we couldn't have both our strikers AND Ozil being passive defensively. Bale at least shows a pulse defensively when needed and came up big against Bayern (I was worried tbh).

why do you keep repeating the fact that he is a striker when he isn't??? In this game unlike the first leg Chelsea played to not concede but also to score. In any decent team the winger will make sure the fullback doesn't get behind your fullback all the while your fullback is busy with the winger. his mentality will get you nowhere. Neymar made a diagonal run behind our defence, why would Ronaldo come down to mark him when the pass was nearly from the half way line between our CBs??? Ok if Alves had a free reign to double up on Coentrao with Neymar while Ronaldo had his hands on his hips expecting the defenders to sort it out because he is an attacking player because that never happened. That's just poor logic

Anyways he is obviously a decent player but he shouldn't have the audacity to complain about a manager when he has done nothing to warrant that

Blue Barrett wrote:

halamadrid2 wrote:

sportsczy wrote:I never listened to the interview because, honestly, i don't really care about Hazard that much...  but i get annoyed that Mou rips his players whenever Chelsea lose and it's somehow not ok for the players to criticize him if they want to.  If you want the players to unconditionally have your back, then you need to do the same for them.

He has been like that everywhere. He is a cancer for any team he coaches because he picks fights with pretty much everyone. Throwing a player under the bus?? That's Mou on his happy day lmao

No sir, he hasn't been a cancer for ANY of the team he coached.....except of course Madrid. Don't try to make it look like that Madrid stint was how it had always been pls gtfo

And while ripping into your players in public can backfire, why are we acting like no other manager does it? Anybody actually remember Fergie?

Let me see:

At Chelsea he had to leave because he had fights with Abramovich


At Real funnily enough Perez was one of his only friends well he had to be because none of the socios wanted him in the first place. He kicked Valdano out before stepping into the team because of something Valdano said many years back. He continously kicked the players when they were down, ridiculed them in the press when they had bad games and in the end had just a handful of friends left in the whole of Spain

He has never coached a team for more than 1-2 seasons elsewhere

Ferguson has the respect of pretty much everyone, he can say whatever he wants to about players because the players will always respect him. English FA the referees, the media, other teams/coaches and other players all respected Fergie. None of those respect Mourinho because he is an unlikeable human being who thinks he will motivate his players by ripping them off in the media

Personally I am glad how Ramos and Iker caused his demise, the guy had no balls to criticse them in person so he did it inh his press conferences what a coward