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Greece are a major Hazard

- HECTOR NUNNS

EDEN HAZARD is set to return for champions Chelsea at Leicester in a week.

But the 26-year-old admits that rough treatment in Greece tomorrow when he is playing for Belgium could jeopardise his club comeback.

Hazard scored in his first competitiv­e match of the season in the 9-0 World Cup qualifying win for his country over minnows Gibraltar on Thursday night.

That followed a serious ankle injury sustained while away with Belgium over the summer. Chelsea manager Antonio Conte had lengthy discussion­s with Belgium boss Roberto Martinez over the game time Hazard should get this week.

And the player admits that while he is keen to be on the pitch, it is Martinez that will make the final decision.

Hazard said: “I’m happy to have returned for a competitiv­e game. I’m ready to play Greece, but they’re certainly going to kick me, so it’s not ideal. The coach will decide.” UEFA will investigat­e Paris Saint-Germain over possible breaches of their Financial Fair Play regulation­s. PSG smashed the world transfer record when they bought Brazil star Neymar from Barcelona for £198million. And they followed it up by taking Kylian Mbappe, left, on a season loan from Monaco, with an option to then buy the player next summer for a fee of about £166m. ●RAVEL MORRISON, 24, the former Manchester United and West Ham midfielder, has signed for Mexican club Atlas on loan from Lazio.

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