On the booing of Hazard, Hiddink said: “Yes, they had the right to do what they think”.
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Do you think Chelsea will really lose all these stars?
Heading into Wednesday’s UEFA Champions League clash between Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea, there will still have been a few lay fans-mostly in England-who read Angel Di Maria’s name in the lineups and scoffed. The 20-year-old’s wayward passing in this situation presented Chelsea chances, but the Blues’ improved pressing also overwhelmed Thiago Motta, who encountered difficulties coping with Willian following Rabiot’s opener.
With midfielder Willian (4) now second in Chelsea’s top Premier League goalscorer charts, surely this award is destined to be awarded to Costa come May.
Guus Hiddink’s Chelsea had to win the game, but the risk of pushing men forward meant the likelihood of being blitzed on the counter was high.
“But in my opinion it was one of his best performances so far”.
“Zlatan performed at the level that he has been performing throughout this season”. It was his ball for Ibrahimovic that created the first goal (scored by Adrien Rabiot), and it was his inch-perfect cross that supplied the Swede with the second.
Languishing in 10th place in the Premier League after a feeble title defense, Chelsea will nearly certainly be out of the Champions League next season for the first time since Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003.
Qatar Sports Investments took over as the majority owner of Paris St. Germain in the aftermath of Qatar’s successful bid for the 2022 World Cup, and Nasser Al-Khelaifi is its chairman and chief executive officer.
Under a plan approved by the IFAB last week, the following situations would be subject to review: the scoring of a goal and action that preceded the score, penalty-kick decisions, incidents of yellow cards and red cards, and possible player identification errors when a card is displayed. “I’m sure knowing those two players there was no bad intention there”, the interim manager said.
“It’s very simple. We saw two very good teams with contrasting philosophies”, he said.
Granted space in the inside left channel, the Argentina global ruthlessly picked his cross for Ibrahimovic to thump in PSG’s 100th goal of the season with a close-range volley.
“We will get the benefit of that, me as coach, the players and the club”.
“Every now and then I see that he (Hazard) is capable of doing lovely things, very efficient things”. In the second half we pushed, we tried to make it 2-1.
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The root cause of Hazard’s injury problems remains something of a mystery and Hiddink said: “I try to exclude a lot of emotion in that and see whether his working radius is okay”.
