{"id":73396,"date":"2018-12-27T17:46:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73396"},"modified":"2018-12-27T17:46:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T16:46:17","slug":"epl-hazard-is-like-messi-to-chelsea-sarri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73396","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Hazard is like Messi to Chelsea &#8211; Sarri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPL-Hazard-is-like-Messi-to-Chelsea-Sarri.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea manager, Maurizio Sarri, has compared Eden Hazard\u2019s importance to that of Lionel Messi at Barcelona or Cristiano Ronaldo at Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>Hazard passed a century of goals for the Blues in a 2-1 win over Watford.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian scored Chelsea goal No. 100 when he raced onto Mateo Kovacic\u2019s pass and rounded Ben Foster in the first half, then he won and converted a penalty in the second half after Roberto Pereryra\u2019s volley had brought Watford level.<\/p>\n<p>He has now scored 10 goals and provided nine assists in 18 Premier League appearances for Chelsea<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course he is very important for us, but [Lionel] Messi is very important for Barcelona, Cristiano Ronaldo is very important for Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a very great player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is able to play in every position. He is playing like a false No. 9. He is very able to play in that position, he scored two goals and I think he made two or three very good assists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is very able to come to play with teammates, he is able to make space for teammates, he is very able in that position, but I think that he can play very well in every position,\u201d Sarri said of Hazard.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager, Maurizio Sarri, has compared Eden Hazard\u2019s importance to that of Lionel Messi at Barcelona or Cristiano Ronaldo at Juventus. Hazard passed a century of goals for the Blues in a 2-1 win over Watford. The Belgian scored Chelsea goal No. 100 when he raced onto Mateo Kovacic\u2019s pass and rounded Ben Foster in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}