This season of English premier league is going to be toughest in many years and this guess has been made by none other than several English experts who closely monitor each transfer activity of every leading English side. If we talk about if it is going to be easy for defender Chelsea to reclaim their title after exaggerated claims being made by almost every club and not to mention transfer budget of all the sides combined has also increased making it sure everyone wants nothing but the best. When competition is so tough, how is it possible for any player to keep his place secure in the team without delivering good performances continuously? Midfielder Eden Hazard is one such player who seems to be below with his show this year. He is the same player who won both PFA and Football Writers’ Association Player of the Year awards last year for his key contribution in Blues triumph to the English topflight and with that form fans had expected him to grow therefrom, but unfortunately, 24-year-old is not able satisfy both fans as well his boss Jose Mourinho who has already advised him to up his game.
Had it been any another day, no one would have been worried so much but defenders surprising loss to Crystal Palace stunned everyone including the Portuguese who criticized/advised Belgian midfielder to match his last year form. Generally, no player objects over his manager’s assessment and this time too Hazard, who is on international duty these days, accepted his boss criticism and said, “It’s obvious. You don’t need to know too much about football to compare what I did last season and what I did this season. I’m not as good. It’s more of a collective problem than an individual one. We’re professionals. We knew this season was going to be more difficult… but within the squad we have the quality to bounce back.”
Taking it a bigger challenge to answer second term serving boss in the way he wanted Hazard is focusing on next two games with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Cyprus and will try to impress everyone with his form. He added, “Individually and collectively, we’re not up to scratch. Starting with me. We had a difficult month in August. I hope that the international break will allow me to rediscover my form.
“We perhaps weren’t ready to become the team to beat,” he added. “Now we know that every game will be a war. Every opponent will be good against us from now on.”