Eden Hazard: Chelsea want Leicester to win Premier League ahead of Tottenham
Sunday 24 April 2016 15:43, UK
Eden Hazard has admitted Chelsea are desperate to stop rivals Tottenham from winning the Premier League title.
Interim manager Guus Hiddink assured Chelsea fans his team would do "everything in our power" to beat Spurs on May 2 at Stamford Bridge, a match live on Sky Sports 1 HD.
Chelsea will have a huge say in where the Premier League trophy will head as they host current leaders Leicester on the last day of the season and Hazard made it quite clear after Saturday's 4-1 win at Bournemouth who he wanted to come out on top.
"We don't want Tottenham to win the Premier League, the fans, the club and the players," Hazard told Chelsea's club website.
"In football you never know, we hope for Leicester because they deserve to be champions but we will see. We have a big game next week against Tottenham and if we can beat them it will be good."
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Hazard struck twice - his first Premier League goals this term - and Pedro and Willian found the net too, as Chelsea eased to victory at Bournemouth to lift themselves up to ninth.
Hiddink, though, has vowed his players will not ease up at the end of a disappointing campaign.
"We'll play the next game to win, and the next game is Tottenham," the Dutchman said.
"At the end the strongest team will win the league. And the strongest team is who deserves the league as well. We've got nothing at stake really and we talked about that in the week.
"But we don't want the season to fade away - that's what we don't want. And the players responded very well. Then of course we go into the next few games where nothing effectively is at stake for us either.
"But if you play the way we played today then it's a guarantee that the team will do everything in our power to go for the win. In terms of attitude they will do everything until the end of the season, and of course, you know our schedule - and the next game is Tottenham."
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