{"id":296163,"date":"2023-12-06T20:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=296163"},"modified":"2023-12-06T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T20:25:11","slug":"eden-hazard-drove-maurizio-sarri-crazy-at-chelsea-for-bizarre-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/eden-hazard-drove-maurizio-sarri-crazy-at-chelsea-for-bizarre-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Eden Hazard drove Maurizio Sarri CRAZY at Chelsea for bizarre reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Eden Hazard drove Maurizio Sarri CRAZY at Chelsea for specific reason in training, reveals Gianfranco Zola&#8230; but admits the Belgian was &#8216;always there in the crucial moments&#8217; for the Blues that season\u00a0<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Maurizio Sarri spent one season as Chelsea boss during the 2018-19 season<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eden Hazard was the Blues&#8217; star man that year as he scored 21 goals in total<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Erik ten Hag has not located the soul and heartbeat of United and, without it, they are screwed &#8211; Listen to It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gianfranco Zola has revealed that Eden Hazard used to drive Maurizio Sarri &#8216;crazy&#8217; when he was Chelsea boss.<\/p>\n<p>Blues icon Zola was Sarri&#8217;s assistant for his one season in charge in 2018-19, during which the club came third in the Premier League and won the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>Hazard was integral to Chelsea that year, scoring 21 goals in all competitions, with his form earning him a record breaking move to Real Madrid\u00a0for a fee rising to \u00a3130m.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the importance of Hazard during Sarri&#8217;s spell at the club, Zola explained how the Belgian caused him several headaches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He was the player that used to drive Maurizio crazy,&#8217; Zola told The Obi One Podcast.\u00a0&#8216;Because we used to come to training and the routine was that one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/06\/19\/78657695-12833831-image-a-34_1701889430091.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gianfranco Zola revealed that Eden Hazard used to drive Maurizio Sarri &#8216;crazy&#8217; at Chelsea\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/06\/19\/78657711-12833831-image-a-36_1701889512658.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Zola was Sarri&#8217;s assistant during the Italian&#8217;s one season in charge of the Blues in 2018-19<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And so when Maurizio was starting training, Eden would go &#8220;OK coach&#8221; and put his head down and be like that because he didn&#8217;t like repetition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He wanted to do different stuff and funny stuff because he was so good and could win games on his own.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Zola went onto explain that although he regularly moaned about training, Hazard would never let the side down on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;Having said that he was fantastic because he was complaining about the training sessions and gym stuff but he was always so good for us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In the crucial moments (he would be there). There was a difficult time when we went to play away at Cardiff and we were losing and he was on bench because we were resting him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The supporters were chanting against Sarri and wanted him out and Hazard came on the pitch and he completely changed the game and won it for us (Chelsea won 2-1).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/06\/19\/78657985-12833831-image-a-35_1701889445520.jpg\" height=\"366\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Zola explained Hazard hated repetition and Sarri would often do the same things in training<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/06\/19\/78657719-12833831-image-a-37_1701889569454.jpg\" height=\"428\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hazard scored 21 goals in all competitions that season and earnt a \u00a3130m move to Real Madrid<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=888otcWHQuw%3Frel%3D0%26start%3D4193<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He was amazing and the way he played that year was great. He saved us so many times with his ability that I can only speak highly of him as a player and as a boy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sarri left the club in the summer of 2019, taking over as Juventus boss amid a desire to be closer to his family in Italy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hazard &#8211; who was known as a notoriously bad trainer but a world class footballer &#8211; struggled in his four-year spell at Real Madrid, scoring just seven goals.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old &#8211; who also won 126 caps for Belgium &#8211; announced his retirement from football in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12833831\/Eden-Hazard-Maurizio-Sarri-CRAZY-Chelsea-Gianfranco-Zola.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eden Hazard drove Maurizio Sarri CRAZY at Chelsea for specific reason in training, reveals Gianfranco Zola&#8230; 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