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| 1. EDEN HAZARD - AML | 8.6 |
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Minutes played83
Touches81
Passes47/58
Shots1*/3
Take-ons9/12
Picking up right where he left off -- he won three of the last four Man of the Match awards last season -- Eden Hazard once again looked like one of the best players not just in the Premier League, but [DEEP BOOMING VOICE] in the whole world!
Perhaps Eden himself put it the best in his post-match interview, descending into a bit of third-person Zlatanisms:
Welcome back, Eden at the top. Hope to never see you again, Eden from last season.
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| 2. DIEGO COSTA - FC | 8.2 |
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Minutes played90
Touches48
Passes17/22
Shots2*/3
Take-ons1/6
Fouls drawn3
Another player showing signs of being back to his best, Diego Costa scored only one goal, but did complete the Diego Costa hat-trick. Like the famous Gordie Howe hat-trick in hockey (goal, assist, fight), the Costa hat-trick consists of a goal, a yellow card, and a CostaCrime.
The goal itself was a collector's item -- have you ever seen Costa score from outside the box?! -- but then we had the yellow card for dissent (a rule he apparently was not aware of) and a brutal, horror, scandalous, shocking, mortifying, all the hyperbole in the world couldn't possibly describe, late tackle on Adrian, the West Ham goalkeeper.
Just another day in office for "The Guv'nor".
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| 3. N'GOLO KANTE - DMC | 8.0 |
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Minutes played90
Touches70
Passes54/57
Tackles5
Block+INT+RECs10
A good debut for Chelsea's most important summer signing, I think we can all agree.
Unless you're Neil Ashton, formerly of the Daily Mail, now of The Sun.
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STARTERS:
Courtois (7.0), Azpilicueta (7.6), Terry (7.3), Cahill (7.2), Ivanović (7.3), Kanté (8.0), Matić (7.3), Oscar (7.9), Hazard (8.6), Willian (7.1), Costa (8.2)
SUBS:
Pedro (6.2), Batshuayi (7.2), Moses (6.6)
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