Recently Chelsea thrashed NK Maribor in the Champions and Eden Hazard had the pleasure of scoring a brace against the Slovenians. Looking forward to the Manchester United match this coming weekend it is good that Hazard bagged a brace and thus stayed in form and at the top of his game. After said UCL match against Maribor, Eden Hazard gave the Chelsea FC website his thoughts concerning the match. Hazard explained that he was delighted with the win.
"“Against this sort of team you have to score early to control the game and we did fantastically,“I am very happy. It was important to stay on the top and we have to finish first. Being unbeaten is important for the confidence and we want to stay on the top until the end. I hope we can do that.”Source: chelseafc.com"
The Belgian is happy that his team is in first place in both their UCL group and the Premier League. The former Lille attacker also stated that he was happy in the way the Blues handled the match by controlling it from the start and that after the United game he wants his side to remain unbeaten.
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Eden Hazard’s performance highlighted his importance to Chelsea and has demonstrated to the world, yet again, what he is capable of, by not only finishing off the two goals he scored, but also by contributing to both the third and fourth.
He also told the website that he was more than okay in allowing Chelsea legend, Didier Drogba, to take the first penalty kick (something that Mourinho recently revealed that he was unhappy about).
"‘He asked me if he could shoot and I said okay, no problem – you are the king, I can’t say no!’Source: chelseafc.com"
Now Chelsea face the challenge of remaining unbeaten in the Premier League by having to face the forceful and dynamic attack of Manchester United spearheaded by Angel Di Maria and Robin Van Persie, but first United will have to keep Chelsea’s attack away from the goal.