Conte wants Hazard to be more selfish

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has urged Eden Hazard to be more selfish in his style of play.

The Chelsea boss says that Hazard is content after scoring one goal, but should be hungry to score more.

Conte claims that Hazard would rather claim an assist rather than score another goal, if he had already scored in the game.

He has also stressed Hazard’s importance to the team, after his superb performance against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League.

Alvaro Morata profited off an excellent cross from Hazard to level the scores. The Belgian was a thorn in the Spanish side all night and showed glimpses of his best.

Speaking to The Independent, Conte said this:

I think he has a style to improve in this specific situation.

I think that, sometimes, Eden is… If he scores one goal, he’s happy and then, if there is another situation, he prefers to make an assist rather than scoring twice.

I see, for Ronaldo, that if he scores once he wants two, three, four. It’s the same for Messi. Yes, he [Hazard] can improve. But I think that, during the games, when you create – for example, at Atletico, he was important because he put the ball in for Alvaro to score our goal… It’s very important that he is important in every game for us, to make chances, to score or to provide assists for our players. Very important.

Hazard is returning to full fitness after injury ruled him out of the start of the season for Chelsea.

The 26-year-old scored 16 Premier League goals as Chelsea won the league title last season, for the second time in three seasons.