Incredible second half from him, can't believe it's the same player from earlier on in the season.

I thought he would get MOTM tonight, no way did I realise he would come off the bench to get it.

Where's this Eden been for the whole season?!

Just shows when Eden is fit and firing, the Garden is rosy..

Take a bow son

Has to be Chelsea's goal of the season...brilliant goal anyway, but also for what it meant to everyone

Amazing how good he can be when he tries his hardest and I don't even think he did that this second half.

When he's sold for 50m in the summer I look forward to the inevitable posts from Barry Bridges about how he 'lacked the fight' to stay at Chelsea

I suppose thats supposed to be a clever post but I don't get it. I've stated he lacks the fight and whether he stays or goes is irrelevant to that considering I can point to this whole season as proof. If anything staying offers the path of least resistance and thus less fight. After all, he'd have to put in even better performances for the rest of the season and Euros to make bidding clubs regain interest for the money the club would demand. Who knows, maybe his form will just suddenly pick up lol

That you think we'd only get 50million leads me to think you're not rating him as highly as many here would either. Got a bigger bid than that for Oscar in January.

but I will give him credit for a pretty decent 45 min (wasn't even that good of an overall performance from him, only seems so compared to what he has offered all season prior) and a very nice goal. I've never had a problem giving him credit when due, don't blame me if he has given very little reasons over the past year.

To be fair, we shouldn't be asking only Hazard why he didn't perform like this all season long, if the team has played like this and shown this much spirit, we certainly would've been retaining the league but onwards and upwards!. Last night gives us another reason to be positive going into next season.

Just when everyone wasn't paying attention, he came from nowhere to score the best goal of the season.

Brilliant from Hazard in that second 45 last night. A reminder of just what he can do.

 

Been a horrible season for him (and the whole team to be honest). For Hazard it's probably a combination of trying to play with a niggling injury + loss of confidence and everything escalating. But we are all too quick to forget how good a player he is and an in-form, fully fit Hazard - we haven't got another player currently who even comes close. Those saying they would be glad to see Hazard leave - think it's time for some back-tracking. We need him on that form if we are going to bounce back next season. I can't bare thinking of us starting next season with good but fairly ordinary players like Pedro - the two halves last night showed the difference.

Edited May 3, 201610 yr by Nibs

Well said Nibs, I will certainly be back tracking in hope that he stays and replicates past form

I also love the fact that it was Eden who said that he didn't want Spurs to win the league....and it was him who scored the goal that gave the title to Leicester.

 

Scintillating form last night, I kept yelling at the TV "where the f**k have you been all season mate??". Not a tap-in, not a penalty, a nice 23-yarder curled beautifully into the top corner!

 

He'll stay. Surely Conte will want to build the team around him...? 

I also love the fact that it was Eden who said that he didn't want Spurs to win the league....and it was him who scored the goal that gave the title to Leicester.

Scintillating form last night, I kept yelling at the TV "where the f**k have you been all season mate??". Not a tap-in, not a penalty, a nice 23-yarder curled beautifully into the top corner!

He'll stay. Surely Conte will want to build the team around him...?

Depends who comes in for him and if the club want the £.

I don't think it will be as easy as some think to keep him if say a Madrid offer comes in. We saw it with Ronaldo who Ferguson said would not be sold then Madrid came in and that was that.

Was great last night, but cant help but feel he could have done this sort of performance more regularly earlier in the year.

Don't like the way he just turns it on when he feels like it!

Well said Nibs, I will certainly be back tracking in hope that he stays and replicates past form

 

I think most of us will Bobby. I stuck by Hazard for a long time but even I had lost faith and started to question his commitment when he kept failing and was asking to be taken off in certain games. Looking back I now believe (or at least hope) that he was injured and really needed complete rest and a chance to get back to being fit.

 

 

Was great last night, but cant help but feel he could have done this sort of performance more regularly earlier in the year.

Don't like the way he just turns it on when he feels like it!

 

Normally agree with your posts Zola but that's just a lazy post that isn't accurate.

Amazing how good he can be when he tries his hardest and I don't even think he did that this second half.

I suppose thats supposed to be a clever post but I don't get it. I've stated he lacks the fight and whether he stays or goes is irrelevant to that considering I can point to this whole season as proof. If anything staying offers the path of least resistance and thus less fight. After all, he'd have to put in even better performances for the rest of the season and Euros to make bidding clubs regain interest for the money the club would demand. Who knows, maybe his form will just suddenly pick up lol

That you think we'd only get 50million leads me to think you're not rating him as highly as many here would either. Got a bigger bid than that for Oscar in January.

but I will give him credit for a pretty decent 45 min (wasn't even that good of an overall performance from him, only seems so compared to what he has offered all season prior) and a very nice goal. I've never had a problem giving him credit when due, don't blame me if he has given very little reasons over the past year.

 

Jesus christ Barry, just admit the lad was class last night and move. In one half he completed more dribbles than anyone else on the pitch and banged an absolute worldie in to the top corner. There's a reason we looked more likely to create something and score once he came on.

I think most of us will Bobby. I stuck by Hazard for a long time but even I had lost faith and started to question his commitment when he kept failing and was asking to be taken off in certain games. Looking back I now believe (or at least hope) that he was injured and really needed complete rest and a chance to get back to being fit.

Normally agree with your posts Zola but that's just a lazy post that isn't accurate.

I don't think that's the case, personally :)

Of course there have been times when he has had niggles and maybe been worn down, but there has been many games this season where when he has been clearly fit and has been hugely ineffective and not fussed on delivering.

Edited May 3, 201610 yr by Zola

well he continues to repeat "next season" when he's interviewed, so i am hoping this is a positive sign he plans to stay. he said it again last night when interviewed with terry. however, it's obvious he's had some niggling injury to his hip that's prevented him from getting to full fitness again. these guys aren't machines, we cannot expect them to stay injury free week in, week out, even if they do, do this for a living. 

Edited May 3, 201610 yr by enigma

I don't think that's the case, personally :)

Of course there have been times when he has had niggles and maybe been worn down, but there has been many games this season where when he has been clearly fit and has been hugely ineffective and not fussed on delivering.

You're entitled to your opinion of course, but I have to ask, how can you as a supporter actually ascertain the level of fitness of Hazard or any other player? There have been numerous reports of Hazard struggling to shake off a variety of injuries, more than the occasional niggle, that would suggest- to me at least -  that a succession of injuries rather than can't be bothered-ness were responsible for his ineffectiveness for so much of the season.

 

If that is the case then I very much hope that last night's second half performance is a sign that the Hazard of last season truly is back and that he doesn't leave in the summer. Talents such as Hazard's are few and far between. Had he managed to maintain last season's levels of performance and effectiveness would have made a massive difference  to the current season.

 

In fact I'll go further than that. There were times during last season when Eden Hazard almost single-handedly carried us over the line, and it's his massive drop in form (for whatever reason) that's been as responsible as much as anything, for the huge and hugely unexpected drop in form of the team as a whole.

I can't see a player having a niggle lasting the whole season, if it was he'd have had it seen to much earlier in the season.

His form was piss poor at the start of the season because he came back overweight and clearly unfit. The pictures are there for everyone to see.

Yeah I don't think it was injuries etc. But given we know he can still play at top level I hope he stays.

I can't see a player having a niggle lasting the whole season, if it was he'd have had it seen to much earlier in the season.

His form was piss poor at the start of the season because he came back overweight and clearly unfit. The pictures are there for everyone to see.

The entire squad were unfit/unready at the start of the season. I do remember Mourinho saying that the team peaked too early last season but that this season and  and so this season we were deliberately aiming to peak later in order to make the latter stages of the Champions League a priority. Easy to say with hindsight, I know, but at the time I honestly thought this was a mistake. That it's far better to get off to a winning start.

 

As it turned out, the players were late returning for pre-season training, which was itself something of a disaster, they looked nowhere near ready against Arsenal in the Community Shield, and even worse at home to Swansea. So you had a squad full of unfit, ill-prepared players playing catchup, more susceptible to injury as a result of being not fully match fit, and as we all know only too well, things went from bad to worse, and there was a time when we did look to be in real danger of relegation.

 

In all seriousness I'd say that this lack of preparation was far more responsible for the huge dip in form than the commonly held belief that the players were deliberately not trying, or couldn't be bothered. I'd also say that rather than lack of ambition, that it was complacency at all levels - boardroom, management and players - that was responsible for last summer's lack of investment.

 

Complacency and piss-poor preparation together go a long way to explaining this season's slump. With Conte coming in, it's reasonable to expect that lessons have been learned.

The entire squad were unfit/unready at the start of the season. I do remember Mourinho saying that the team peaked too early last season but that this season and  and so this season we were deliberately aiming to peak later in order to make the latter stages of the Champions League a priority. Easy to say with hindsight, I know, but at the time I honestly thought this was a mistake. That it's far better to get off to a winning start.

 

As it turned out, the players were late returning for pre-season training, which was itself something of a disaster, they looked nowhere near ready against Arsenal in the Community Shield, and even worse at home to Swansea. So you had a squad full of unfit, ill-prepared players playing catchup, more susceptible to injury as a result of being not fully match fit, and as we all know only too well, things went from bad to worse, and there was a time when we did look to be in real danger of relegation.

 

In all seriousness I'd say that this lack of preparation was far more responsible for the huge dip in form than the commonly held belief that the players were deliberately not trying, or couldn't be bothered. I'd also say that rather than lack of ambition, that it was complacency at all levels - boardroom, management and players - that was responsible for last summer's lack of investment.

 

Complacency and piss-poor preparation together go a long way to explaining this season's slump. With Conte coming in, it's reasonable to expect that lessons have been learned.

Totally agree with your perspective, here.

I kept saying all social season he deserves a bad season because he has match winning cup winning league winning quality easily

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What a goal.

 

Criticised him heavily at the start of the season by what a 45 minutes he played, must keep him if he continues to play like that.