Player of the week: With a 100% penalty record in the Premier League intact, Chelsea’s Eden Hazard was spectacular for the Blues this week and deserves the player of the week accolade for his scintillating performance over Stoke City. PHOTO: REUTERS
Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane was second in the voting by members of the English Football Writers Association with Hazard’s Chelsea club mate and captain John Terry third.
The 24-year-old Belgian international midfielder adds the award to the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) honour he collected last month and becomes the first player from his country to claim the accolade since it was launched in 1948.
Only two other Chelsea players have won England’s most prestigious and football’s oldest individual honour — Gianfranco Zola in 1997 and Frank Lampard in 2005.
Kane, who has scored 30 goals in his first full season for Spurs and was awarded his first England cap, was named the PFA’s Young Player of the Year last month, while defensive rock Terry has played every minute of every Premier League game to date.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 13th, 2015.
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