{"id":1093317,"date":"2019-06-11T11:41:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T10:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1093317"},"modified":"2019-06-11T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T10:41:40","slug":"liverpool-robertson-hazard-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/liverpool-robertson-hazard-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Andy Robertson names the best player he has faced in the Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Liverpool left-back Andy Robertson has named Eden Hazard as the best player he&#8217;s faced in the Premier League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hazard&#8217;s long-awaited move to Real Madrid was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/real-madrid-confirm-eden-hazard-signing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally confirmed on Friday<\/a>, ending a seven-year association with Chelsea in which he won six major honours.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Hazard vs Liverpool in 2018\/19: Five key things to know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Hazard faced Liverpool three times last season \u2013 twice in the Premier League, once in the EFL Cup.<\/li>\n<li>In the Premier League, he scored once against the Reds and completed 10 dribbles.<\/li>\n<li>Hazard also scored a decisive goal as Chelsea knocked Liverpool out the League Cup in September.<\/li>\n<li>The Belgian has seven goals against Liverpool overall; no team suffered more at his hands.<\/li>\n<li>But the Reds can now sleep easy knowing he will be playing in La Liga next season.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7284737-it-s-time-to-talk-about-a-potential-bernard-or-silva\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAGB1_lwBKG8A\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robertson&#8217;s Scotland side are preparing to face Hazard&#8217;s Belgium in Uefa Euro 2020 qualifying on Tuesday and ahead of the game, the defender gave a glowing review of his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s probably the best player I&#8217;ve come up against in the Premier League and he deserves his move and all the plaudits he gets,&#8221; Robertson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/12017\/11739277\/andy-robertson-says-eden-hazard-is-best-player-hes-faced-in-premier-league\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s probably one of the best in the world at the minute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it all comes back to showing him respect because of his ability but not showing him too much respect that we fear him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Would You Rather Matthijs de Ligt or Frenkie de Jong? Nations League Fans Quizzed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uLx3oaV8oxk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to try and defend him out the game but we know tough that&#8217;ll be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robertson&#8217;s long-range strike helped Scotland to a hard-earned 2-1 win over Cyprus on Saturday but Tuesday&#8217;s game represents another chance for them to try and get a result against a top nation \u2013 something Robertson admits his compatriots have struggled with in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve not had a big result since probably England and there was still some disappointment because of the late goal,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1092845\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/eden-hazard-real-madrid-winners-losers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1092845\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1092845\" src=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/08135721\/Hazard-Real-Madrid-Winners-Losers1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/08135721\/Hazard-Real-Madrid-Winners-Losers1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/08135721\/Hazard-Real-Madrid-Winners-Losers1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/08135721\/Hazard-Real-Madrid-Winners-Losers1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/08135721\/Hazard-Real-Madrid-Winners-Losers1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/08135721\/Hazard-Real-Madrid-Winners-Losers1-66x37.jpg 66w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/08135721\/Hazard-Real-Madrid-Winners-Losers1-620x350.jpg 620w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/06\/08135721\/Hazard-Real-Madrid-Winners-Losers1-940x530.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1092845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">READ MORE:<\/span><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/eden-hazard-real-madrid-winners-losers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eden Hazard to Real Madrid: the biggest winners &amp; losers as Zinedine Zidane gets his man<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Since then, the big nations have turned us over if we&#8217;re being honest. 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Hazard&#8217;s long-awaited move to Real Madrid was finally confirmed on Friday, ending a seven-year association with Chelsea in which he won six major honours. Hazard vs Liverpool in 2018\/19: Five key things to know&#8230; Hazard faced Liverpool&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":1093326,"parent":0,"menu_order":6475,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Liverpool news: Robertson names best Premier League player he's faced","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Liverpool left-back Andy Robertson has named the best player he's faced during his Premier League career so far.","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1093317","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"external_featured_image_url":"","hide_featured_image_pattern":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liverpool news: Robertson names best Premier League player he&#039;s faced<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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