Left Winger: Eden Hazard
Very few players can claim to to be considered legends at the age of 28, but Eden Hazard is one among them. His 7 years at Chelsea between 2012 and 2019 were nothing short of spectacular, and firmly put him in the 'legend' category at the club.
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After a scarcely believable season at Lille in 2011/12, where he scored 20 goals and assisted a further 16 in the league alone, Hazard effectively had his pick of top clubs to join in the summer. As it happened, he chose Chelsea, who were reigning European champions at the time. And it was here that the love affair between the west London club's fans and the Belgian began.
Hazard delighted the Stamford Bridge crowd week in and week out with his dizzying array of skills, tricks and flicks which often left defenders dumbfounded, and also used his fiendish turn of pace and frightening acceleration to leave them trailing in the dust. He was just as good on his left foot as he was on his right, and this made him nearly impossible to defend against.
In his first season in England, at the age of 21, he scored 9 goals and provided 11 assists in 34 league games, but that was just the beginning. All in all, he would go on to score 85 league goals and provide 54 assists in 245 appearances in blue, being involved in a goal every 140 minutes, a superb record, including one underwhelming season in 2015/16, when, due to injury, he only managed 7 goal involvements in 31 games. Had it not been for that dip, his numbers would have been even more frightening.
He also averages 2.4 key passes per game over these seven years, and even made 100 across the 2014/15 season. He has also been able to maintain a passing success rate of 83% from an average of 42 passes per game, along with averaging over 2 shots per game as well.
In the summer of 2019, with one year left on his contract at Chelsea, Hazard finally moved to Real Madrid, after close to 3 years of speculation that a move was afoot. Now in his prime, Hazard will be hoping to get his hands on the Champions League, the only major trophy he has not won as yet.
