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EdenHazard_71 | He won a penalty after being fouled
by James McArthur, and took it himself, heading in
the rebound after it was saved by Julián Speroni. On |
EdenHazard_72 | 26 May, Hazard was voted as Chelsea's Player of the
Year for the second year in a row. There are only
four other players that have done it in the past;
Juan Mata, Frank Lampard, Ray Wilkins, and John
Hollins. |
EdenHazard_73 | Subsections (0):
Section: 2015–16: Year of scrutiny (3):
Hazard endured a difficult start to the 2015–16
season, missing a penalty in the Champions League
group stage against Maccabi Tel Aviv. On 27 October,
in the fourth round of the League Cup away to Stoke,
Hazard was the only player to miss in Chelsea's
penalty shootout elimination, his attempt being saved
by Jack Butland. |
EdenHazard_74 | Hazard endured a 2,358-minute
scoreless run across 30 matches until 31 January
2016, when he scored from the penalty spot, his 50th
goal for Chelsea in all competitions, in a 5–1 win
over Milton Keynes Dons in the fourth round of the FA
Cup.
In February, Hazard was scrutinised when he said it
would "be difficult to say no" to a move to Paris
Saint-Germain. |
EdenHazard_75 | He remained scoreless in the league
until 23 April, when he recorded two goals in a 4–1
victory away to AFC Bournemouth; after the result,
interim manager Guus Hiddink insisted that Hazard
would remain at Chelsea by next season. |
EdenHazard_76 | For the
second consecutive campaign, Hazard scored the goal
that decided the Premier League; he came on as a
substitute at home to Tottenham on 2 May, and scored
an equaliser as Chelsea came from 2–0 down at half-
time to draw. The result meant Leicester City won the
title at Tottenham's expense. |
EdenHazard_77 | On 11 May 2016, Hazard
scored his fourth and final league goal of the season
against Liverpool, although Chelsea were unable to
hold on to the lead, with fellow countryman Christian
Benteke scoring in extra time as the match finished
in a 1–1 draw.
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EdenHazard_78 | Section: 2016–2018: Return to form, Premier League
winner and first FA Cup win (3):
On 15 August 2016, in Chelsea's opening Premier
League match of the season, Hazard scored a penalty
in a 2–1 win over West Ham United. Hazard recorded a
total of 81 touches throughout the game, and his
performance earned him the man of the match award. |
EdenHazard_79 | On
27 August, Hazard contributed another man of the
match display in the 3–0 victory over Burnley,
scoring the opener in the ninth minute. After voting
ended on 5 September, Hazard received the most votes
from the public poll, 41%, for the Premier League
Player of the Month award although Raheem Sterling
was later named the Player of the Month by a Premier
League panel. |
EdenHazard_80 | On 15 October 2016, Hazard, along with Diego Costa
dedicated their goals to Willian, whose mother had
died earlier that week, in the 3–0 victory over the
champions, Leicester City. On 23 October, he scored
his fourth goal of the season in a 4–0 win over
former Chelsea manager, José Mourinho's Manchester
United, equalling the number of league goals he
managed in the previous season. |
EdenHazard_81 | Hazard continued his
excellent form, scoring the first goal and assisting
the second in Chelsea's 2–0 win over Southampton on
30 October. This marked the first time that he had
scored in three consecutive Premier League games. His
run of form continued into the next match as he
scored two goals and assisted another in Chelsea's 5–
0 home win against Everton on 5 November. |
EdenHazard_82 | Hazard's
performance against Everton earned him another man of
the match award, his third in a row in the Premier
League. On 18 November, Hazard was named the Premier
League Player of the Month for October.
Hazard led Chelsea to their twelfth consecutive
league victory on 26 December 2016 in a 3–0 victory
over Bournemouth, which was a new club record. |
EdenHazard_83 | He
also converted a penalty for his 50th Premier League
goal, making him the sixth Chelsea player to achieve |
EdenHazard_84 | this feat. On 20 April 2017, Hazard was named in the
PFA Team of the Year for the fourth time in his five
seasons at Chelsea. Two days later, he scored after
coming on as a substitute in Chelsea's 4–2 FA Cup
semi-final victory over rivals Tottenham Hotspur at
Wembley Stadium.
At the beginning of the summer of 2017, Hazard
suffered an ankle injury in training during
international duty. |
EdenHazard_85 | The injury ruled him out for six
to eight weeks; missing the entire preseason and the
Premier League opener. On 25 August, Hazard returned
to action, playing 75 minutes for the Chelsea U23
side. On 28 October, Hazard scored his first league
goal of the season in a 1–0 win against Bournemouth
in the Premier League. On 3 January 2018, Hazard
scored in a 2–2 draw with rivals Arsenal. |
EdenHazard_86 | Two goals
against Brighton & Hove Albion on 20 January made it
100 league goals in his career. Hazard's double
helped Chelsea to a 4–0 win at Falmer Stadium. On 12
February, Hazard scored a double in a 3–0 win over
West Bromwich Albion. |
EdenHazard_87 | In the 2018 FA Cup final on 19 May, Hazard won a
penalty which he took and scored in the 22nd minute,
and this proved to be the winning goal as Chelsea
beat Manchester United 1–0. |
EdenHazard_88 | Subsections (0):
Section: 2018–19: Final season in England (3):
Hazard scored on his first start of the 2018–19
season, converting a penalty in a 2–1 win against
Newcastle United on 26 August 2018. |
EdenHazard_89 | He came off the
bench to give Chelsea a 2–1 win over Liverpool in the
third round of the EFL Cup at Anfield on 26
September, which was his sixth goal in seven
appearances to start the season. In the next fixture,
against Liverpool in the Premier League, he made it
seven goals in eight games, opening the scoring in a
1–1 draw at home. |
EdenHazard_90 | His five league goals in September
2018, including goals against Bournemouth, Cardiff
and Liverpool, led to him winning the Premier League |
EdenHazard_91 | Player of the Month. On 16 December, Hazard scored
and assisted a goal for Pedro as Chelsea won 2–1 away
to Brighton & Hove Albion in the league, before
coming off the bench to send Chelsea through to the
EFL Cup semi-final at the expense of Bournemouth
three days later. |
EdenHazard_92 | He scored both goals in a 2–1 away
win against Watford on 26 December, the first of
which was his 100th Chelsea and 150th club career
goal.
On 8 April 2019, Hazard scored a solo goal against
West Ham United which would be voted as Premier
League Goal of the Month for April. |
EdenHazard_93 | On 9 May 2019,
Hazard scored the decisive penalty in a 4–3 shootout
win over Eintracht Frankfurt at home to send Chelsea
to the Europa League final. His tally of 15 assists
for the 2018–19 Premier League season saw him win the
competition's Playmaker of the Season award. |
EdenHazard_94 | On 29
May, Chelsea won the 2018–19 Europa League with a 4–1
win over Arsenal in the final, in which Hazard scored
twice, also assisting Pedro's goal. After the match,
Hazard expressed his desire to leave Chelsea after
seven years at the club, stating that he "want[ed] a
new challenge". |
EdenHazard_95 | He was included in the ESM Team of
the Season for his performances in the 2018–19
season, as well as the FIFA FIFPRO Men's World 11 for
2018 and 2019. He also won the PFA Fans' Player of
the Year award as well as every individual Chelsea
award, the only player in the club's history to do
so. |
EdenHazard_96 | Subsections (0):
Section: Real Madrid (2):
Subsections (2):
Section: 2019–2021: Fitness struggles and decline in
form (3):
On 7 June 2019, La Liga club Real Madrid announced on
their website that Hazard would be signing for them
for the 2019–20 season. He signed a contract until 30
June 2024 for a reported fee of €100 million, which |
EdenHazard_97 | could rise to €146.1 million due to additional fees,
on a deal worth £400,000 per week. Hazard became
Madrid's most expensive player after Gareth Bale, who
was signed for €101 million in 2013, and, depending
on certain variables being met, the club's most
expensive player in its history. |
EdenHazard_98 | Hazard was formally
unveiled in front of 50,000 fans on 13 June 2019 at
the Santiago Bernabéu. Upon signing with Madrid,
Hazard said, "I've dreamt about this since I was
little, I always supported Real Madrid" and described
it as "a true honour". He listed manager Zinedine
Zidane as a defining factor in making the move, as he
had always been an admirer of him. |
EdenHazard_99 | Having arrived at training camp out of shape, Hazard
made his debut on 14 September 2019, coming on as a
substitute in a 3–2 home victory over Levante in the
2019–20 La Liga. On 5 October, he scored his first
competitive goal for Los Blancos, right before half
time against Granada in his first home league start. |
EdenHazard_100 | In the second half, he also got his first assist
which was to Modrić in an eventual 4–2 victory. |
EdenHazard_101 | Despite a slow start to life in the Spanish capital,
Hazard eventually rediscovered his form, completing
38 dribbles and giving two assists in six matches,
but this streak, which began in the 5–0 victory over
Leganés on 30 October, ended when he suffered a
microfracture to his right ankle on 26 November in
the Champions League group stage game against Paris
Saint-Germain after a challenge by Thomas Meunier. |
EdenHazard_102 | Hazard went on to miss 16 Madrid matches across four
competitions, which included the first El Clásico of
the season, the Supercopa de España victory in Jeddah
and the entire Copa del Rey campaign which ended with
a quarter-final exit to Sociedad. At the end of the
season he had made 16 league appearances, scoring one
goal and assisting six, as Madrid won the 2019–20 La
Liga. |
EdenHazard_103 | On 31 October 2020, Hazard scored his first club goal
in over a year, which was also his first goal of the
2020–21 season in Madrid's 4–1 home league win over |
EdenHazard_104 | Huesca. On 25 November, he scored his first Champions
League goal with Madrid in a 2–0 away win against
Inter Milan. On 23 January 2021, Hazard scored in a
4–1 away win at Alavés. |
EdenHazard_105 | On 5 May 2021, Hazard
apologised following criticism for laughing with
former teammates Kurt Zouma and Édouard Mendy after
Real Madrid's 3–1 aggregate defeat to Chelsea in the
Champions League semi-final. Four days later, he
scored his first goal in over three months, a
backheel goal against Sevilla in the sixth minute of
stoppage time, which temporarily kept Madrid in the
title race. |
EdenHazard_106 | Subsections (0):
Section: 2021–2023: Continued struggle, departure,
and retirement (3):
In the 2021–22 season, Hazard was playing respectably
well early in the season, but faced competition from
Vinícius Júnior, causing him to be pushed to the
periphery of Carlo Ancelotti's main starting eleven.
Hazard's relationship with Ancelotti would sour later
on in the season. |
EdenHazard_107 | Hazard then suffered from a minor
knock and gastroenteritis. On 20 January 2022, Hazard
scored his first goal of the season, a 115th–minute
winner against Elche to send Real Madrid to the
quarter–finals of the Copa del Rey. On 25 March, Real
Madrid announced that he would undergo surgery to
remove the osteosynthesis plate in his right fibula. |
EdenHazard_108 | On 30 April, Hazard won his second La Liga title with
Real Madrid following a 4–0 home win against
Espanyol. On 28 May, he won his first Champions
League title after Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1–0 in
the final; he remained an unused substitute
throughout the match. |
EdenHazard_109 | At the start of the 2022–23 season, Hazard was
motivated to turn things around, as his previous
seasons at Madrid were unconvincing. On 6 September
2022, Hazard assisted Luka Modrić and later scored
his 200th career goal in his first Champions League
game of the season in a 3–0 away victory against |
EdenHazard_110 | Celtic. Despite the promising start to the campaign,
it was followed by subpar performances against the
likes of Mallorca, Shakhtar Donetsk, or even fourth-
tier Cacereño in the Copa del Rey, and Hazard was now
definitely confined to the bench; the goal against
Celtic would prove to be his last career goal. |
EdenHazard_111 | In
March 2023, Hazard revealed that his relationship
with Ancelotti has "completely broken down," and that
the two "don't talk to each other." On 3 June, Hazard
and Real Madrid reached a mutual agreement to
terminate his contract at the end of the season,
ending his time at the club after four years. |
EdenHazard_112 | His run
saw him score just 7 goals and assist only 12 times
in 76 appearances across all competitions throughout
his time at the Spanish capital, with many labelling
him as "the greatest flop in Real Madrid history" and
"one of the worst transfers ever."
On 10 October 2023, three months after his departure
from Madrid, Hazard announced his decision to retire
from professional football at age 32.
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