Hazard: Mourinho wants me to be like Messi

Eden Hazard has said Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho wants him to emulate the scoring feats of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Belgium international has scored nine goals in 25 league appearances for the Stamford Bridge outfit this season, but is way off the standards being set by Barcelona’s Messi and Real Madrid’s Ronaldo, who have scored over 30 goals in all competitions this season.

And, he has revealed how boss Mourinho wants to reach the same level as the world class duo.

“Jose Mourinho would like for me to score more,” he is quoted as saying by The Mirror. “Us forwards need to score and to pass. But I think I compensate for that given how many chances I create.

“I’m fouled a lot, there are a lot of free-kicks and penalties that I win. But he’d like me to score more, like those great players [Messi and Ronaldo] who score two or three times each game.

“What strikes me the most is that Mourinho leaves us to it. He doesn’t put much pressure on us, he takes it on him and he lets us play.

“Obviously when we don’t win he’s not happy and you can see it during the week in training, but he doesn’t do our heads in saying ‘No, do this, do that’ every second.

“He lets us express ourselves on the pitch, he observes and from time to time he sees that we need a little push, so he says something honestly, whether it’s good or not good.

“Everyone respects him, he’s won everything and he still wants to win.”