Chelsea aces aim for double
CHELSEA aces Eden Hazard and N’Golo Kante are targeting a Premier League and FA Cup double.
Chelsea are 10 points clear at the Premier League summit with 11 games to play and face Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United in the FA Cup quarter-finals tomorrow night.
Kante, who won the championship with Leicester last season before moving to Stamford Bridge, said: “We’re going to try to win everything.
“It’s not going to be easy but we’re going to train and work hard to win these two things.”
Hazard added: “We are at a club where every year you have to win something. We can win both the cup and the league. We will give everything.
“We have 11 games to play in the league. We hope we can win the league as soon as possible.
“And the cup is a bonus but it’s a good bonus.”
Both Kante and Hazard have been key to the revival of Chelsea, who finished 10th last season when Mourinho was sacked and Guus Hiddink was placed in interim charge before Antonio Conte’s arrival.
Hazard believes his form is nearing the standards of two seasons ago when, under Mourinho, Chelsea won the League Cup and Premier League title.
Hazard, who struggled last season with a niggling hip injury and poor form, added: “Two years ago we won the league cup, the championship. I want the same. I want to win trophies.
“I give everything to win trophies.”
And Hazard used a running analogy to describe the comparison between him and Kante.
He said: “If we have to do a marathon – he will win for sure. He can run 10 hours. I can run 10 metres, then I’m tired.”