Originally Posted by Butterflies:
“He did set up that chance for Ivanovic though. It may not be guaranteed that starting Hazard would have won us the game, but his qualities as a player certainly would have increased our chances. It's painful to say that he is the only AM I trust to make the right decisions (consistently) in the final third.”
That's why I said we should be starting him.
I think at the moment even not playing to anywhere near his abilities he is more effective to us that way then coming on when we need "something".
At the moment he is not at a place where he can come on and change results. He should be able to in a ideal world and in any of his previous seasons he more then likely would have come on and won us the game but at the moment he is lacking that little bit extra to do that.
For me he should have played the entire FA Cup game and started last night, The only way he is going to get back to anywhere near his normal standard is playing 90 mins. Yes we have a big game coming up at the weekend but this month is full of big games.