Chelsea: Eden Hazard hits "nothing serious", hopes Maurizio Sarri

Maurizio Sarri is indifferent to Eden Hazard's blow to Chelsea's Europa League victory over Slavia Prague on Thursday.

Hazard initially declined at Stamford Bridge but continued after a treatment, but was finally withdrawn in the 65th minute while the Blues held out for a 4-3 win that sealed a 5-3 triumph and went up half a second. final against Eintracht Frankfurt.

But Sarri – who has seen his team score four in a sensational first half before conceding twice in a row after the interval – is confident that Hazard's injury is not a major cause of injury. ;worry.

"Nothing serious, I hope," said Sarri at a press conference.

"It's only a big hit, but I think we can get it back for the next game."

Chelsea appeared to have full control at halftime at Stamford Bridge, who had taken a 4-1 lead.

However, thanks to a good double of Petr Sevcik at the beginning of the second period, Slavia was relaunched and pursued his goals, because he needed two more to qualify for the semi-finals.

In the end, Chelsea did enough and beat 5-3 overall winners, but Sarri was again baffled by second-half problems from the Blues.

"[Chelsea were] very well in the first period, I think. Really, [we played] very well, "he told reporters at his press conference after the match.

"As usual during the last two months, we started very badly in the second half of the year, we need a solution, we have to solve this problem.

"In the last 10 games, we started as in this match [in the second half]. It's a big problem. We have to concede that it's a qualifying match, not for three points, but probably at the end of the first. half we thought we were qualified.

"But against these opponents, it's not true, they have physical numbers, I've never seen Something like that [Slavia’s fitness] in the last 20 years.

"The number of accelerations, the high speed counters, the race … I've never seen anything like it in these opponents.

"So the second half could clearly be difficult for us, but we did something wrong, and in the first 10 or 15 minutes of that half, they scored from 18 meters without a break. to be opposed, twice.

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"AT Half time I told them that the goal was to start with the same application and the same attention in the second period, but we did not do it. [it].

"I do not know [why]and it's not easy to understand, otherwise we can solve the problem very easily.

"It's very hard to understand why, I can try without going into the locker room at half-time, I can try if that will solve the problem."