The Chelsea star's strong run of form has seen him compared to the world's best, but he is concentrating solely on helping his team to succeed
Eden Hazard is proud to be compared to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but the Chelsea star isn't setting any specific goals for himself following his brilliant start to the season.
Hazard has scored five goals in six maches to start the Premier League season after scoring 12 goals a season ago.
He also scored a contender for goal of the year in Wednesday's Carabao Cup clash with Liverpool, as he darted through the Reds defense for a late winner.
Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri recently stated that, on current form, Hazard could scored 40 goals this season, while Ross Barkley said his teammateis better than Messi and Ronaldo right now.
The Belgian himself, though, isn't as concerned with statistics or comparisons.
“I don’t have (goal) targets to be fair - my only target is to win something every year. I want to win trophies,” he said, according to the Telegraph.
“It is not important how many goals I score. You know me, I don’t care about that. I just want to enjoy my football and win games.
“At the moment I am scoring goals, that is why everyone is talking for me to be in the top three (players). It is a pleasure to be there. I just want to keep going. I am the same player as two years ago, three years ago. I’m now in a period that I score a lot of goals, and hopefully I keep on scoring.
"It won’t be simple. Definitely not in the Premier League. I’m feeling good since the FA Cup final. Something you see. I play in strong teams, here with Chelsea and with Belgium who were very good at the World Cup, and that helps me to perform better too.”
Hazard, who has yet to sign a new deal with Chelsea, says he is enjoying his form right now and riding a wave of momentum dating back to last season.
“Even when the things are not going well, I try to be happy when I am on the pitch," he said. "That is why I like football. At the moment, we are winning games so it is more easy to smile but when I am on the pitch I just try to be happy. At the moment it is good. I am scoring goals, we are playing good, so I am enjoying it but we will see in the future.
“We won the last FA Cup last year. We know the Premier League is going to be hard. City and Liverpool, they have a lot of good players.”
fiuioyz
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prakashcr7
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Hazard is the lucky player because he is being compared with two great living legends of world football
sibaekloru
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What a hell of funny arguments are you guyz making here? Listen, we have excellent soccer players who don't really care about the number of goal they score; they're just interested in playing good football to help their teams win; in that regard, Hazard is the closest to MESSI! However, we have a couple of goal conscious players, who don't really care whether his team wins or not, they're always interested in scoring goals to have their names being mentioned; such guys don't really care about playing delightful football nor team progress, their main concern is to always have them mentioned among the goal scorers; regardless of whether, he scores to win, draw or lose; in this regard, CR7 is the king with his closest contenders as Harry Kane or R. Lewandowski!! We also have some out standing players who play excellently, assists others to score as they score as well; such players are always are always haters of lose and have always taken the responsibilities to do anything to deliver team success; In this category, MESSI is the ruler with player such as Eden Hazard, Mohammed Salah, as his most closest contenders!!! Other players are just sheer skilful and don't really care much about the team collective progress, their focus in on playing skilful soccer for fame; this category is ruled by Neymar da Silva Junior!!!
KennPhaculty
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why didn't hazard mention Man u for their great players😂😂😂
kodeAZ
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When a player is being overrated in one season, the next he flops. Same is happening to sallah right now. It's good to give credits to players, but when u begin to praise/levels those players because they have one good season along side CR7 or Messi that has been good all season and still good till now, it sound ridiculous to me. CR7 and Messi still plays better than most of all these high rated players.