Saturday, March 13, 2010

Eden Hazard: Lille Deserved To Beat Liverpool In The Europa League


Hazard believes that a similarly strong performance from LOSC in England could be enough to see them through, but he knows that the club from northern France cannot allow their level to drop.

Effervescent teenager Eden Hazard played a central role in Lille’s 1-0 Europa League success over Liverpool on Thursday evening, and the Belgian is of the opinion that les Dogues merited their victory.

Mickael Landreau had to be on good form in the home goal to repel a number of threatening moments from Rafael Benitez’s Reds, though LOSC had a number of opportunities themselves before Hazard’s late free-kick was missed by everyone, ending up in the net.


“We played our game, and we need to do the same thing in the return leg,” Hazard chirped after the game, according to Ligue 1’s official website. “Honestly, given what we showed in this match, we deserved to win. No matter what happens now, we pulled off something huge here tonight.”

LOSC have been bullish about their chances of scoring at Anfield, which would leave Liverpool requiring at least three goals to reach the last eight of the event.

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