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Eden Hazard Comments on Diego Costa, Chelsea After Manchester City Win
- Updated: December 5, 2016
Eden Hazard has said that Chelsea team-mate Diego Costa can win the Premier League’s Golden Boot award ahead of him so long as he regains his Player of the Year title.
According to the Telegraph’s Matt Law, Hazard was questioned on his tally of eight goals, which puts him three behind Costa’s 11 for the season:
It’s not bad is it? But I always say to Diego that he can become the top scorer. If I get the chance to score a goal, I will take it. But he can become the top scorer if I can win the trophy of the best player.
We can laugh about it now, but we’ll see. Diego is performing on a high level, we are scoring a lot of goals. We are strong as a team, we are together and that’s very good. We are going to try to keep playing on this level.
The pair each found the net on Saturday as they helped the Blues come from behind to beat Manchester City 3-1.
Costa’s strike puts him level at the summit of the top-scorers’ charts alongside Alexis Sanchez and one ahead of Sergio Aguero, though it will be some time before the latter is able to add to his tally:
Those last few minutes on Saturday could be quite costly for Manchester City… …