Chelsea ace Eden Hazard seemed to aim a dig at Olivier Giroud following the arrival of Gonzalo Higuain from Juventus.
Chelsea has two strikers, Olivier Giroud, and Alvaro Morata but none has lived to the expectation since the departure of Diego Costa who rejoined Atletico Madrid. Hazard termed Giroud as more of a team player and not a striker.
“I like to play with top, top players. At Chelsea, I was able to play with one of the best in Costa for three years. I think Higuain is one of the best at the moment. He has scored a lot of goals. When you see his career he has done it everywhere, Real Madrid, Napoli, and Juventus. I think he can do the same here,” said Hazard.
“This season we have been playing good but we missed the guy to score just one goal. We have had a few games where we have played well and in the end we finished with zero goals, even though we created chances. It was like that against Spurs. If we had a striker that could score three goals, the game would have finished 5-1. But that hasn’t been the case. Higuain can do that. He is a top scorer, he can score anywhere,” he added.
“Have we missed a striker like Costa since he left? Yes of course. I like playing with Giroud and Morata, but when Olivier is playing he is doing his best for the side, he is more of a team player than a striker that just scores goals. Diego was sometimes not the kind of player to play a one-two with, but in the box he was amazing. He just scores one goal, we won and you have the three points. That’s what we need.”
Higuain joined the Blues from Juventus on loan until the end of the current season.
