Actually Henry was specifically right when he said some players can bail you out on certain areas of the pitch, whereas Hazard can do so at any area of the pitch
Hazard was the best prem player for like 4 seasons. And was the best EASILY. That’s the difference between him, Salah, DeBryne, and Rodri. That at his prime, no one came close. Where the others you were debating, there was none with Hazard. I’ll give the others respect with their longevity, but prime Hazard was just different
Hazard was so legendary at his peak he went band for band with prime Messi in the CL and no one though it was an unrealistic prospect that he could beat Beat Barcelona. Hazard's Ball control Dribbling and the ability to steal or kill games single-handedly was crazy. He used to cut through good teams at will. He got of the couch to destroy Spurs or Arsenal for fun multiple times and at less than 50% fitness just because he could.
@ I will say Hazards main flaw was at times not being aggressive enough or being lackadaisical because I agree, stats matter to a point,but they are not everything. Context matters too. Take this into consideration: Out of all the great attackers/creative players alike, Hazard was playing under a more defensive system/coach than the others. Imagine what he would of done in say liverpools system where he could Cherry pick after a very high midfield press won the ball back? Scary to think about that. You actually saw glimpses of a more free Hazard under Sarri in which he was responsible for 50% or more of Chelsea’s goals that year either scoring or assisting. Also w Belgium at the World Cup in 18
Hazard had that ronaldinho mentality. He just wanted to enjoy the game and he had no ego of winning individual awards. He just enjoyed football like a little kid
And then we have ppl talking that Salah is better than Hazard. Salah is just a stats player. Like CR7. But when it comes to footballing abilities, natural talent and skill. Hazard is definitely above Salah.
CR7 stats player? Are you delusional? Hazard literally went to Madrid and became trash player. While CR7 went to Madrid and became Madrid legend and won balloon dor. Hazard so talented that he can't play among the best players??
Madrid is just a mercenary club and hazard isnt a mercenary player as Thierry said he just wants to enjoy his football, he got thst at chelsea, he ruined his career joining a club most young players wanted to join growing up@MzaidMz-e7p
I think you must be new to watching football? CR7 from 2007 to 2009 Man U wasn’t just stats he was destroying teams. CR7 - 2011 to 2014 was scary single handily won games.
Not a Chelsea fan but this fella was different gravy, scintillating to watch and made it look so easy to do incredible things. For a period he wasn't just the best player in the league, he was in a different class from everyone else.
Henry's the best player we've seen in this league (by a country mile), Hazard was probably the most talented though. Had he applied himself properly he may very well have had a Ballon d'Or, even in the era of Messi and Ronaldo.
@@Macleodcityblue That finals rhetoric is the most tired myth about Henry, only repeated by people who didn't actually watch him in those finals and read stats.
Henry explained it perfectly…Hazard’s stats don’t show how good he really was,he didn’t wait for the ball in a certain position,he wanted the ball all the time no matter where he was,and he made you want to watch him!
Bruh , as an Arsenal fan, if Hazard was ever in an overpowered team like City during his prime, he would have been top 3 players alongside Ronaldo Messi
Take a look at the goal vs spurs when Leicester won the league and only look at Kyle Walker in the clip don't even look at Eden Hazard. Just watch Kyle Walker whom many think is the best RB the league has ever produced. Eden makes him look irrelevant. This is the genius Henry is speaking about. The ability to get his team out of trouble, players could not touch him and they could not get near him. What one goal on a stat sheet reads does not articulate the havoc this man produced continuously from the age of 17-29. He literally had the ability to dictate the game from the left side. If he played on the left for your team odds are he won man of the match from the left controlling the game like an iniesta. You couldn't press Chelsea or Belgium because the outlet was always Eden in which he could immediately bypass your press opening up opposition defenses with 4v3/5v4 situations. A shame that Chelsea forwards could never bar Costa finish the plethora of EASY chances he would create. Real football fans wont bring up stats talking about Zidane, Iniesta, Modric, but because those other two super humans would score 60 goals a year doesn't mean every winger necessarily score to be great. He was always closer to Iniesta than CR7 in playing style, speak about him as such. If you bring up stats you didn't pay enough attention to his games. btw Iniesta was better than Hazard I was just making an example.
Mark my words, if the stats did not exist for football players, eden hazard would be the best player in the world. The guy was just straight up magic on a football pitch
2012/13 was RVP/Bale. 2013/14 was Suarez and Toure. 2014/5 he was. 2015/6 he was horrendous. 2016/7 he was. 2017/8 was salah or de bruyne - nowhere near there level that season. 2018/9 was Van Dijk by far. So 2 seasons out of of his 7 years in the prem.
This is why I think the Salah comparisons are stupid. YES Salah is a better goalscorer. He will shoot 15x until he eventually scores and he's world class at doing that. BUT there aren't many ballers as naturally talented as Hazard was. It's a different level of football for me... it transcends statistics. Ronaldinho was the same. It's beautiful football not efficiency.
And people try tell me salah is better than hazard not a chance more goals yes better footballer player hell no and neither is kdb as much as I like them both salah and kdb, hazard was Belgium’s best player of that generation and salah isn’t as good as hazard was
So Eden hazard was better than Messi and CR7? Then what happened when he went to Madrid?? Why is CR7 performed at Madrid while hazard don't?? What happened to him??
I think he was inconsistent even with chelsea, people here are shitting on Salah, but salah has numbers (goals + assists) and has scored outrageous solo goals as well and has dribbling ability as (probably not as amazing as hazard's but still very elite.) easier to say when you only watch chelsea's matches. Its not like Hazard single-handedly carried Chelsea, there were other great players in that team as well. Just going overboard to praise a player.
@@Jamm0_19 you win by scoring goals in football hence why cr7 in real was far better than cr7 in united even tho cr7 in united was more entertaining. football aint about who can dribble the best, you want to see that, go to brazil and watch street football
players that were better than hazard during his prime in his position sanchez superior g/a while playing with welbeck iwobi and giroud neymar would have had a ballon dor had he not walked into messis house bale last season in tottenham was doing mad things hazard could only dream of. held his own in real. mane almost on pair with salah and some periods even slightly above salah do i even have to defend this son more g/a per game with out even confirming it
most overated player ive ever seen. sanchez playing with iwobi welbeck and giroud had better stats than hazard and we dont even wanna talk about bales last season in tottenham before real and as for salah if im not mistaken he has better g/a in every liverpool season than hazards best chelsea season and why are we comparing oranges and apples? hazard and bergkamp shouldnt be compared
Till this day I miss Eden hazard so much 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Actually Henry was specifically right when he said some players can bail you out on certain areas of the pitch, whereas Hazard can do so at any area of the pitch
Me too 😢
Hazard was the best prem player for like 4 seasons. And was the best EASILY. That’s the difference between him, Salah, DeBryne, and Rodri. That at his prime, no one came close. Where the others you were debating, there was none with Hazard. I’ll give the others respect with their longevity, but prime Hazard was just different
Hazard was so legendary at his peak he went band for band with prime Messi in the CL and no one though it was an unrealistic prospect that he could beat Beat Barcelona.
Hazard's Ball control Dribbling and the ability to steal or kill games single-handedly was crazy.
He used to cut through good teams at will. He got of the couch to destroy Spurs or Arsenal for fun multiple times and at less than 50% fitness just because he could.
@ 💯
But the stats don't back that up
@ I will say Hazards main flaw was at times not being aggressive enough or being lackadaisical because I agree, stats matter to a point,but they are not everything. Context matters too. Take this into consideration: Out of all the great attackers/creative players alike, Hazard was playing under a more defensive system/coach than the others. Imagine what he would of done in say liverpools system where he could Cherry pick after a very high midfield press won the ball back? Scary to think about that. You actually saw glimpses of a more free Hazard under Sarri in which he was responsible for 50% or more of Chelsea’s goals that year either scoring or assisting. Also w Belgium at the World Cup in 18
So he then went to Madrid and became trash?
Why?
CR7 went to Madrid and became even better.
Not only that, the goals he scored man… it was a utmost joy to watch, 🇧🇪❤️
Hazard was crazy good.
I can’t deny that unfortunately.
Thierry Henry on point !
Hazard had that ronaldinho mentality. He just wanted to enjoy the game and he had no ego of winning individual awards. He just enjoyed football like a little kid
And then we have ppl talking that Salah is better than Hazard. Salah is just a stats player. Like CR7. But when it comes to footballing abilities, natural talent and skill. Hazard is definitely above Salah.
Then became shit in Madrid?? Where's the his skill gone ??
CR7 stats player? Are you delusional?
Hazard literally went to Madrid and became trash player.
While CR7 went to Madrid and became Madrid legend and won balloon dor.
Hazard so talented that he can't play among the best players??
Madrid is just a mercenary club and hazard isnt a mercenary player as Thierry said he just wants to enjoy his football, he got thst at chelsea, he ruined his career joining a club most young players wanted to join growing up@MzaidMz-e7p
You do realise that he got injured and due to covid was not able to get a physio to help him recover fully and never regained full fitness.
I think you must be new to watching football? CR7 from 2007 to 2009 Man U wasn’t just stats he was destroying teams. CR7 - 2011 to 2014 was scary single handily won games.
Not a Chelsea fan but this fella was different gravy, scintillating to watch and made it look so easy to do incredible things.
For a period he wasn't just the best player in the league, he was in a different class from everyone else.
Henry's the best player we've seen in this league (by a country mile), Hazard was probably the most talented though. Had he applied himself properly he may very well have had a Ballon d'Or, even in the era of Messi and Ronaldo.
By a country mile? It's nostalgia
@@Macleodcityblue No, it's not, and yes, by a country mile.
@@BluesFanUK_ explain why a country mile? Not the highest scoring foreign player nor did he do anything in finals barr disappear
@@Macleodcityblue That finals rhetoric is the most tired myth about Henry, only repeated by people who didn't actually watch him in those finals and read stats.
@kelvinkamau6852 yeah ok
Henry explained it perfectly…Hazard’s stats don’t show how good he really was,he didn’t wait for the ball in a certain position,he wanted the ball all the time no matter where he was,and he made you want to watch him!
We have see a time when Salah kdb and hazard was playing together in Epl and we know who was the best amoung them 😂
Bear Camp was something else
😂😂😂😂 not bear camp
if hazard doesn't play football in cr7 and messi era he definetaly will win several ballon d'ors
My favorite player growing up 🐐
Hazard is someone I'd pay to watch. Exactly my thoughts 💭
prime hazard was something else... literally put the team on his back.
Bergkamp most underrated 10/cf in history.
Bruh , as an Arsenal fan, if Hazard was ever in an overpowered team like City during his prime, he would have been top 3 players alongside Ronaldo Messi
Our boy our boy💙💙💙💙💙
Take a look at the goal vs spurs when Leicester won the league and only look at Kyle Walker in the clip don't even look at Eden Hazard. Just watch Kyle Walker whom many think is the best RB the league has ever produced. Eden makes him look irrelevant. This is the genius Henry is speaking about. The ability to get his team out of trouble, players could not touch him and they could not get near him. What one goal on a stat sheet reads does not articulate the havoc this man produced continuously from the age of 17-29. He literally had the ability to dictate the game from the left side. If he played on the left for your team odds are he won man of the match from the left controlling the game like an iniesta. You couldn't press Chelsea or Belgium because the outlet was always Eden in which he could immediately bypass your press opening up opposition defenses with 4v3/5v4 situations. A shame that Chelsea forwards could never bar Costa finish the plethora of EASY chances he would create. Real football fans wont bring up stats talking about Zidane, Iniesta, Modric, but because those other two super humans would score 60 goals a year doesn't mean every winger necessarily score to be great. He was always closer to Iniesta than CR7 in playing style, speak about him as such. If you bring up stats you didn't pay enough attention to his games. btw Iniesta was better than Hazard I was just making an example.
Mark my words, if the stats did not exist for football players, eden hazard would be the best player in the world. The guy was just straight up magic on a football pitch
Bieeeeaaarkamp
2 or 3 years 😂 try atleast 5.
2012/13 was RVP/Bale. 2013/14 was Suarez and Toure. 2014/5 he was. 2015/6 he was horrendous. 2016/7 he was. 2017/8 was salah or de bruyne - nowhere near there level that season. 2018/9 was Van Dijk by far. So 2 seasons out of of his 7 years in the prem.
2/3 years is already a legend not many can do
My idol growing up 😭😭
“Bear camp” “Beer camp” Lol!
Everything he did. All the time. Everybody in the prem said it at the time.
From the first time hazard played for Chelsea he was the best player of the world after messi .... Real Madrid injuries all
This is why I think the Salah comparisons are stupid. YES Salah is a better goalscorer. He will shoot 15x until he eventually scores and he's world class at doing that. BUT there aren't many ballers as naturally talented as Hazard was. It's a different level of football for me... it transcends statistics. Ronaldinho was the same. It's beautiful football not efficiency.
Dream on Hazard was way better.
Way better than who?
And people try tell me salah is better than hazard not a chance more goals yes better footballer player hell no and neither is kdb as much as I like them both salah and kdb, hazard was Belgium’s best player of that generation and salah isn’t as good as hazard was
Bear Camp 💀
VIP london
So Eden hazard was better than Messi and CR7? Then what happened when he went to Madrid?? Why is CR7 performed at Madrid while hazard don't?? What happened to him??
stop talking cause you sound dumb
He showed up once every three months. Wasn't anywhere close to being the best in the world.
France
Beer camp
I think he was inconsistent even with chelsea, people here are shitting on Salah, but salah has numbers (goals + assists) and has scored outrageous solo goals as well and has dribbling ability as (probably not as amazing as hazard's but still very elite.) easier to say when you only watch chelsea's matches. Its not like Hazard single-handedly carried Chelsea, there were other great players in that team as well. Just going overboard to praise a player.
Sanchez prime was better. And I’m forever gonna keep saying that because he has more goals and assists in less games.
Arsenal fan here. Sanchez was different gravy but I still take Hazard. Numbers don’t mean everything always the eye test
@@Jamm0_19 you win by scoring goals in football hence why cr7 in real was far better than cr7 in united even tho cr7 in united was more entertaining. football aint about who can dribble the best, you want to see that, go to brazil and watch street football
So Vardy >. Giroud?
insecure arsenal fan saying sanchez is better than hazard go watch golf or tennis football is not made for people like you
At no point was he the best player in the world.. unfortunately for him, his prime ran alongside the 2 greatest players we will probably ever see.
players that were better than hazard during his prime in his position
sanchez superior g/a while playing with welbeck iwobi and giroud
neymar would have had a ballon dor had he not walked into messis house
bale last season in tottenham was doing mad things hazard could only dream of. held his own in real.
mane almost on pair with salah and some periods even slightly above
salah do i even have to defend this
son more g/a per game with out even confirming it
Stop doing drugs. Maybe only Neymar and arguably bale, the rest stop talking nonsense
Oh and Salah, Salah maybe
It’s not all about g/a hazard controlled games when Chelsea were at their worst
These two are always criticizing Cristiano Ronaldo yet somehow they tell us Hazard was the best, clearly their opinions are biased.
most overated player ive ever seen. sanchez playing with iwobi welbeck and giroud had better stats than hazard and we dont even wanna talk about bales last season in tottenham before real and as for salah if im not mistaken he has better g/a in every liverpool season than hazards best chelsea season and why are we comparing oranges and apples? hazard and bergkamp shouldnt be compared
U re deluded obviously
@@LurdViktorleave him, dudes brain doesn't work properly
LoL dude played under defensive mangers most of his time.
He was belgium
Yet neither of them won the prem single handley
Best in the world?
Not a hope in hell. Hazard vanished time and time again in big CL knockout games.
Alexis Sanchez was better than him in primes😆 let alone Bergkamp.
Crazy to say he was better than Bergkamp + they're completely different players🤦🏻♂️😆 just a SLY BUM comment from that skank carra looking for clicks
without a doubt
Overall in their prem careers hazard was way better
insecure arsenal fan saying sanchez is better than hazard go watch golf or tennis football is not made for people like you
What made Hazard crazy good was his game IQ. His one two were phenomenal apart from his dribbling.