When a team fails to carry on its last season form, its star playmakers, who used to be in brilliant form earlier, are the ones who fail to contribute like they did in the last season and Chelsea’s completely form reversal is the best example of how starlets of one season can be substituted for non performing reasons in the next one. Eden Hazard is one such player of Blues army who won several awards last year when Chelsea triumphed the league title but he is not able to recollect his form this year and after his persisting failures on the field, manager Jose Mourinho had to rest him for Aston Villa game that Stamford Bridge side won eventually by 2-0. Diego Costa’s one goal along with Alan Hutton own one helped Blues score first dominating victory in weeks this year. Replying over the curious media questions about Hazard absence from the game, Portuguese said, “I left out Hazard because we are conceding lots of goals. We need to defend better. When you don’t have the ball, quality means nothing and what means … you have or you don’t have.
“It was just a tactical decision, leaving super quality on the bench, but bringing tactical discipline and hoping that the team could be solid. Willian and Pedro did amazing defensive work and allowed the midfield players to be very comfortable.” Adding further, second term serving boss asks the last season playmaker to bring the old magic again in him if he really wants to come back in the side, he said, “I continue that way, or he (Hazard) comes in our direction and tries to replicate the same work that Willian and Pedro did, I wanted more solidity. He’s fantastic with his vision and the decisions he makes on the pitch. But without the ball you cannot compare him, tactically, with the others.
“I told the players that this is not the moment to think about themselves, to think about their personal situation, a moment to moan or to try to be selfish in the approach. This is a moment for the team, just the team, and nothing else. I have to make decisions to try and bring results back. The way he (Costa) was working in the past two weeks with us, I knew clearly he would bring something positive for us.”