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Its completely different from Conte and Mourinho – Eden Hazard loving Maurizio Sarris new Chelsea

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The Blues have started the new season with four straight wins (Picture: Getty)

Eden Hazard says he is enjoying the football played by new Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri far more than when the club were managed by Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho.

Sarri took over in the summer, bringing his attacking, possession football to Stamford Bridge, and the club have racked up four straight victories to sit second in the Premier League table behind Liverpool on goal difference.

Hazard netted again against Bournemouth on Saturday, and is enjoying the freer-flowing football advocated by Sarri compared to his predecessors.

Hazard has two goals and two assists already this season (Picture: Getty)

Asked if he is enjoyed Chelseas new style, Hazard told the clubs official website: Of course, I like to have the ball. Not in my own half, but in the last 30 metres.

I like this type of game, its completely different from Antonio Conte or Mourinho before. Like I say, we have more of the ball so for me its not bad.

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Sarri brought midfield maestro Jorginho with him from Napoli, as well as signing Mateo Kovacic from Real Madrid on loan, and Hazard says the pair are having a huge impact.

I think the big difference is we bring in two players, Jorginho and Kovacic, and they are completely different, the Belgian continued.

Sarri has brought more attacking football to Stamford Bridge (Picture: Getty)

Of course, they want to keep the ball, we just try to keep the ball more often, and then when we have the chance to score we just need to score. But when we have more of the ball we can have more danger.

On Chelseas form, he added: At the moment we are okay, we are winning games, I think we are playing good football, so I enjoy.

I want to keep this momentum. The bad thing is now we go to the national team, we want to just keep playing with Chelsea and win games!