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Chelsea captain John Terry says Eden Hazard is as good as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo- and that he will only get better.
Hazard opened the scoring in the 2-1 victory over Stoke from the penalty spot as Jose Mourinho's side moved seven points clear at the top of the table. Loic Remy hit the winner after Charlie Adam had pulled the Potters level.
There was, however, bad news for Jose Mourinho's side with top scorer Diego Costa substituted after suffering a recurrence of a hamstring problem, but Terry says Hazard can step up and be the Blues' match-winner.
"He has been excellent - he has been our best player by a long way this year," he toldSky Sports.
“In those games where you're looking for a little bit of something extra - a bit of magic from someone - he's the one who steps up and manages to create something. He's up there with Messi and Ronaldo and he can still get better and better."
Chelsea face a trip to Loftus Road to take on QPR next weekend before games against Manchester United and Arsenal, and Terry has urged his team to maintain their momentum.
"It's the old cliche, but tick a box, get three points today and move on. It's a massive game for us away to QPR, a big London derby for us," he added.
"We've just got to frustrate teams. For the next two or three weeks, we've got some big games coming up so we must keep putting three points on the board and making it difficult for the teams around us."
http://m.goal.com/x/en-ng/news/10469152

Oboy, hazard dy play futbal. The guy sabi play. Hm no need to score to prove say hm sabi. Look at how he demolished stoke.

Oboy, hazard sabi play futubol. Dm born am on top ball.

Alvaro Arbeloabelieves Chelseamanager Jose Mourinhocould return to coach Real Madridin the future.
The 52-year-old coached Madrid for three years before leaving the current Champions League holders to return to Chelsea.
Mourinho guided the Bernabeu side to the Liga title in 2011-12, the Copa del Rey in his first season in charge and the Supercopa de Espana in 2012.
However, he was also at the centre of a number of controversies during his spell at Madrid as he fell out with key players such as Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos.
Arbeloa remains a keen admirer of Mourinho, though, and can imagine the Portuguese return to the Spanish capital in the future.
"There is a chance that Mourinho will return to Real Madrid in the future," Arbeloa toldEl Chiringuito.
"I do not know when, but I do believe he could return one day.
"I do not agree with those who say he divided Madrid. I am a Mourinho fan. He knows what he wants and is always straight and honest. He does not have any fear."
Mourinho has a contract with Chelsea until June 2017.
http://m.goal.com/x/en-ng/news/10401152

Krasid:
A player needs to have a huge impact in his team for him to win the POTY.I think Tottenham are 6th or 7th in the EPL and it's not much of an impact.Although hazard has not been so exceptional(if not he would win both YPOY and POTY), he has been Chelsea's best player and one of the reason they are top of the EPL.So, Hazard will win the POTY, Kane will win the YPOY.

lets keep watching.

Loogan:
Guy a player can't win both the Player of the Year and Young player of the year in the same season even if he's within the age bracket, if you are the most outstanding player in a season, no matter how old you are (even if you are 19) you are gonna win the POTY award, but once you have that u can't win the YPOTY

u dnt knw what u are saying. Bale won both during his time.

Krasid:
He will not win it, but he will certainly win the YPOY.

if he beats hazard and other young players to the ypoy award, then he cn win the senior one. Who wl win that of POY?

yoji:
For me, it has to be David de gea. Never have i seen a goal keeper single handedly responsible for his teams success. The show he puts up week in week out is reminiscent of Hollywood movies.

no b so dem dy win am. You sure say u go vote?

Harry kane is proving a strong challenge for the player of the year.

ClintonNzedimma:
this barca is quite different, it utilizes messi as a playmaker to accomodate suarez and neymar.
Rakitic has speed and accurate passes and is the best midfielder in the world, thegoodjoe even testified to this
This barca can beat chelsea even in stamford bridge.

yes. And this chelsea cn also beat barca even at camp nou.

TheGoodJoe:

I will like to read that analysis. Mourinho has lost more games to Guardiola, Mourinho teams have been outplayed more times by teams coached by Guardiola.

If Guardiola and Mourinho bring their teams to play each other for ten games, Guardiola will win more.

dats d way u analyze. Why dnt u analyze it in the sense that, mou is a person that knw hw to analyze a defeat nd kn wat caused hm to lose. He hardly lose to a team twice in a season. This is due to his ability to read d game perfectly and knw where d defects were and fix it. That mou wl win less when he plays 10 times against pep is a prediction made frm past records which do nt count in a match. Like mou wl always say, evry game is diff, you dnt judge wat wl happen in a match wt wat happened in d previous one. Tottenham beat chelsea 5 -3 in the league b4 dia nxt meeting in the carling cup final, yet chelsea beat them 2 - 0 in d match. Arsenal has beaten man U in the FA cup, u dnt knw if arsenal may start beating them frm dia onwards.

cr7lomo:
What's dis one sayin ?? Epl can be compared to d south african league in Africa . They are really good at promoting their league and have a lot of money to spend but when it comes to the continental league , they collapse below what they have made te continent believe bout how strong their league is. Most local African players would prefer the south African league because of the popularity compared to other leagues in Africa

Their national team as well reminds me of the three lions

oga, undastd a comment b4 u quote it. What dat comment meant is that what happens in the league hv no interpretation of what happens outside of it. That the league is hot does nt guarantee success for the teams in it outside d league. Chelsea won d ucl in 2012, bt 5nished 6th in dia domestic league. Gerrard neva won d epl, bt won d ucl wt liverpool. Besides that, are you saying that english do nt do wel in the european stage?

TheGoodJoe:
That is why it is called analysis. You check the most likely option. At the end football can sway different ways.

For instance, If I am to pick who will win between a team coached by Guardiola or a team coached by Mourinho to win a clash.

I will pick Guardiola because his style looks more efficient to produce a win against a Mourinho coached team.

That does not mean Guardiola will win all the games or is guaranteed to winthat game. But, most likely to win.

dnt forget that evry1 has his own analysis. Another person cn analyse it in a way that mou's team wl b likely to win.

dicksj93:
yea u may be ryt abt dz present side buh certainly dz present side can defeat barcelona

i like dis

ClintonNzedimma:
exactly, even with mikel barca might still win.
This chelsea side dont scare me at all.
They couldnt beat 10 man psg, yet they are boasting that the can beat this new barca which i even refer to as the most tactically versatile team in the world together with bayern

thats d way u always talk. The barca team that 10 man chelsea without a coach beat was a team that set a record of winning six trophies in a year. It had a messi dat went on to win the ballon d'or dat yr, an iniesta dat won d uefa best player and a xavi. A team dat was considered the best ever in club football.

TheGoodJoe:


If Barcelona meets Chelsea today, without Mikel, the match will be flawless in favor of Barca.

Barcelona thrives with spaces. Man City were humiliated because Pellegrini left gaps in the middle. Silva, Nasri, Milner, Yaya and Aguero were contributing more to win the game than hold the game.

When you play Matic, Fabregas, Ramires, Hazard, Willian, these guys will at some times during the game try to move forward. When Barca wins the ball on these occasions, they are devastating and cause damages.

With a player like Mikel, he sits deep and shields the back four of Chelsea. Barca will still scale through but the amount of time they have space between the midfield and the defence will be limited.

Pellegrini should have gone with a strong midfield with Fernando, Fernandinho and Yaya to limit the control of Barcelona in the middle. Leaving Navas, Silva and Aguero to counter when the midfield trident wins the ball.

una knw say mikel good like dis, yet una go dy cast am. Well, all dis ones wey una dy talk na analysis frm wat u tink lukin frm d players they hv and d style of play. All dis do change wen dis kind of matches are played. Maybe, that day u wl b surprised to c matic playing d way mikel wl play. Or zouma maybe played instead. This is y clubs hv diff. Players wt diff. Style and profile.

Vick4rill:
Hazard is a good player indeed but he is not that special.an honest truth frm a fellow chelsea fan ;DHazard is a good player indeed but he is not that special.an honest truth frm a fellow chelsea fan

that is your own opinion.

When ppl talk abt the best league i wonder what they use to rate it. For me, the success in continental competition does nt count for the perf. in d league. That two or three clubs frm a league are doin wel in continental competition does nt represent the overall perf. of d entire clubs of d league. Rating of the best league is done frm what is happening n d league and nt outside it.

dechandel:
What is so difficult in pulling down a trouser?

compare urinating wt a skirt on and dat of trouser. Compare it wt the body exposure and convinence, then ask me dis question again.

homesteady:
you also lack understanding ability? is what he wrote rocket science?

is what he wrote nt a prove that the statement "epl is overrated" a fallacy.

Gary Neville believes the Premier League is stuck in a cycle of overpaying for average talent, and has blamed the problem on "super-agents" who take Premier League clubs for "mugs".
The debate over whether the English top flight can claim to be the best league in the world has raged this week, with Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Everton all eliminated from European competition.
Liverpool face Manchester United this weekend and, while Neville believes the game will be passionate and end-to-end, he concedes that few of the players in each starting XI would make it into the respective squads of Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Neville believes that is symptomatic of a culture of overpaying for players who are not truly "elite" and says that top Premier League clubs must redouble their efforts to improve recruitment strategies if they are to improve.
"Liverpool vs Man Utd will be full of entertainment, the fans will be up for it, the atmosphere will be great, it will capture our imagination," he wrote inThe Telegraph. "Relate it to the Clasico later in the day, though, and it will come a distant second, in terms of the technical and tactical aspects.
"Is this cyclical or a pattern? I hope it's only a phase. Yet recruitment is becoming a huge topic of concern for English clubs. The modern game is controlled by the big overseas agents. There are no prominent English ones I can think of. We are being used as mugs by middle-men who will happily ship over to England the talent they want to send while the prime stock is pushed into other clubs where they have better connections, and where the players would prefer to go.
"We are not dominating the super-agent business – and I do detect a link. Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United have been principled, historically, in their use of agents, but these days we are having to pay high, high prices for players who left the selling club reluctantly. Mesut Ozil and Angel Di Maria are examples.
"Meanwhile, we are forking out very good money for average, and extravagant money for good. But we're still not getting the true elite. And if we do get them, they end up wanting to go back to Barcelona or Real Madrid.
"The Premier League will not be happy with these trends. Nor will Sheikh Mansour at Man City, or Arsenal's owners. There are probably a lot of unhappy people out there. We have to come out of this."
http://m.goal.com/x/en-ng/news/10032772

homesteady:
the stats I saw earlier gave PSG about 51% possession, but I just checked UEFA website and it gave chelsea 51%!
So there are even conflicting results!

but does a 51% possession against 10 men indicate that they played mass attack?

that you attack massively and defend massively has ntin to do wt possession. Just that evry member of the team attack wen d ball is in possession and vice versa.

papadjaji:
Abeg who be ds òdè? That u sneak to viewing centers instead going for mass servant practice n catechism does make u a football guru. Abi you want thunder to fire that your yansh wey no get better hole? I no blame u. Na because u no follow your mates grow that na y u no fit tell the difference between àgbà and omo jatijati like yourself.
If you would like to prove yourself, then get enlisted as a supersports analyst; then I will believe you. Till then, you have no justification to say someone else's opinion is rubbish.
You can strongly disagree with what I have said and not vomit all over the post.
Sometimes I wonder if you ever sat for any of your exams cos you immensely lack manners and common sense.

i cn see you who have common sense and manner. That your question was devoid of football knowledge was an obvious fact that i stated as it was. I sorry if you couldn't handle d truth.

dechandel:
What about that?

is d trouser alway handy at dat point.

dechandel:
I also do prefer 'em trousers to skirts
Infact i do not like skirts at all.. Gowns do rock sometimes for me too.


Trouser is one convinient wear that comes handy all time!!

what of wen you wnt to urinate.

homesteady:
PSG had more possession, they had more shots, so how did Chelsea attack massively?

which match did psg hv more possession? U dnt knw d match u are talking abt.

Exactly my thought. The guy wt d comment above mine has little or no understanding ability. *No insult intended*

homesteady:
So because you think Messi and Neymar don't track back, thats why chelsea will win?

Chelsea couldn't even attack massively against 10-men PSG, and you think they will attack massively against barca?

i doubt if u watched d match.

Debroslink:
For the past 7 seasons, Fabregas always flopped @ d 2nd half of the season. Arsenal and Barcelona can testify to this. Fabregas was bought as the heir to Xavi's throne, but he kept flopping @ the crucial stage of d season.

All those assists u mentioned happened at d 1st half of d season. Tell me, how many assists and goals does Fabregas have in 2015?

The 2nd half of d season is the business end of d season. That Awkward moment you realise Pastore of PSG bossed the midfield with 10 men and Fabregas was missing.


As for Rakitic, he was d best player in Europa league last season. Even now, his work rate is better than Xavi and Iniesta. Rakitic has more goals and assists than the great Xavi and Iniesta combined this season.

I hate Barca's management style, but selling Fabregas to buy Rakitic is the best decision they've made in a long while.

that is for barcelona and dia business.

homesteady:
lmao!
I can picture what you are trying to say!
Mourinho is a coward, he'll never attempt to play that type of football!
To keep up with barca attacking strength, Mou will even set up his team more defensively than he did against man city! so your idea of hazard been so much of a threat that even requires Messi to track back is kinda a phantom dream!

football is 90 mins. Dnt deceive urself to tink dat a football match wl b played for 90 mins, and the opposition team wl nt get the ball. If messi does nt track bk 2 help to recover d ball for his team, it is 2 dia detriment. Mou trains his team to cum bk nd help recover d ball wen it is lost. That is y mata was sold. Hazard was criticized because of it last season, bt he has developed significantly in dat aspect. It is unfortunate that both neymar nd messi lack dat quality to help the team recover d ball. That is y chelsea is likely to win barca if they meet. Mou's philosophy is if u lose d ball, evry1 shld help to recover it. If yor recover it, evry1 shld help to attack. Massive attack, massive defense. And when i am attacking massively, if the opponent does nt return to defend massively, there is a chance for a goal. This is the reason sum ppl say chelsea park d bus, they dnt undastd d meaning of parking d bus. When chelsea defend massively to recover d ball, they say we are parking d bus.

Krasid:
I want to know who in your opinion is a much better counter attacking threat than Ronaldo.

for me, there is no best counter attacking player.

papadjaji:
I asked a simple question n you r busy telling me what an intelligent person will do. So much 4 a hazard fan. Abeg go sleep. Try n follow CFC until the end of the season n come back to say what you sincerely observe. That is if ur brain can carry it o.

so you expected me to choose one option 4rm dat ur dump question nd option. Question devoid of football knowledge.