Jose Mourinho: Eden Hazard has asked for bigger shinpads

Eden Hazard has been the subject in recent weeks of very bad fouls by his opponents.

The Belgium International has been fouled a total of 74 times in the Premier League this season, 14 more than Raheem Sterling.

He was fouled on nine different occasions during the clash in the Champions League with PSG on Tuesday night at the Parc des Princes. He is undoubtably one of the most exciting and skilful player in the Premier League but he can quickly exasperate opponents who tend to go for harsh tackles on the 24 years old.

In the past few week,  Chelsea’s coach Jose Mourinho has kindly asked referees to come up with solutions in order to protect his player, but Eden Hazard might have a found a very good solution as he asked for better shinpads.

If you see the game in Paris he had nine fouls. But three of them were very bad fouls. Very dangerous fouls. And nothing. So Eden has asked me to speak with some friends of mine who make carbon shin-pads. He wants one that covers the whole leg. Like a horse.

Mourinho believes Eden Hazard is fair player, who never cheats and  some of his opponents should be punished for their fouls committed on the 24 years old

Normally, if you get 100 fouls, the opponents will get a certain percentage of yellow cards. So if he is the most fouled player he should be the player creates more cards in the opponent. But he isn’t.

There are fouls and there are accumulations of fouls and there are fouls that are strategy and the referees have to understand exactly that.

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