Chelsea star Eden Hazard reveals favourite position
Eden Hazard has revealed where he feels his best position on the pitch is, after being deployed as a false nine in recent weeks by Antonio Conte due to Alvaro Morata's injury troubles.
Antonio Conte played the Belgian centrally against Barcelona, but the Chelsea star believes it is not a position that plays to his strengths: "You don't get a lot of balls" he said after the game at Stamford Bridge. "I might have touched 25 balls that night and 15 of them were flying towards my head."
"That is not really playing to my qualities. I won some aerial duels against Gerard Pique, and that's not bad," he added. Hazard enjoys playing with a big 'target man' up front, someone to free up space for him to run in behind.
"But if I had to choose, I prefer to play like I did in the last 10 minutes, which was out wide," said Hazard, who will be overjoyed with the addition of Olivier Giroud to provide a back-up for Alvaro Morata. "But it's the manager who has the final word. On the wing I feel more comfortable. That's my place," he concluded.