24 Jul 2016 11:15:21
What's everyone's thoughts on playing hazard as the second striker? , just off Costa or batshuyi, my thoughts are when we won the league he scored 19 goals, as a left winger, with mourinho making him track back, so if he had the freedom to play in and around the box without having to defend, just Soley score or assist, I believe he would be capable of 30 goals, not a traditional striker more in the mound of greismen, who also went from winger to striker, I remember when he played as a striker against Spurs and got man of the match, also we would have harder working wingers who track back, I think hazard would struggle in contes 4 24 formation, you don't see Neymar, messi, bale, Ronaldo, robben, ribery, tracking back they use all there energy on attacking,
24 Jul 2016 15:56:11
I think he'd be suited to be a second striker in a 352. If a 424 is employed I would still want him on the wing.
25 Jul 2016 19:16:50
I have always thought him better through the middle than the wing but when I mentioned it last year I was slaughtered. I think he could be a prolific scorer in such a position and agree 'a Griezmann type' of forward. We could however, do with a forward that is good in the air, something we lack at present.