Sportskeeda's 10 best Forwards of 2017

#7 Eden Hazard

That trophy looks like it's really happy to be in the hands of Eden, eh?

Mercurial, brilliant, enigmatic... the Belgian was the creative soul of Antonio Conte's brilliant first season (and is at the heart of his second season revival, when Eden plays well, Chelsea play well) and while N'Golo Kante got all the plaudits - and rightly so - Hazard's contribution to the cause was largely underplayed.

He doesn't have the sheer quantity of goals that most on this list have - but then again the Belgian is cut from a different cloth. A deeper lying forward than all of them, Hazard creates just as much, whether directly... or indirectly by drawing defenders to him and creating space for others to run into.