Eden Hazard has netted 13 goals and provided eight assists in 32 league games for Chelsea this season as they close in on the Barclays Premier League title.
But legendary former England and Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes feels the 24-year-old Belgian playmaker needs to become more selfish if he wants to be rated alongside ‘ferocious’ goal poachers like Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Barca duo Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.
“One thing I do wonder with Hazard is whether he has that hunger to score goals that you see in Ronaldo, Messi and [Luis] Suarez,” Scholes wrote in the Independent.
“Those are players who have a ferocious appetite to put the ball in the net. They’re unstoppable. Hazard seems to me to be a relatively gentle soul. One who is just as happy skipping past a couple of opponents and putting it on a plate for a team-mate.
“He does that very well, and I have no doubt he will deserve his accolade at the PFA awards.
“Playing the way he does, under pressure to score goals and make them, is not easy and he has been a big part of Chelsea’s success.
“But in this modern age, if he wishes to challenge the achievements of Messi and Ronaldo then he will have to prove that he can match their relentless desire to score goals.”
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