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Chelsea boss Antonio Conte refused to choose between Eden Hazard and N’Golo Kante as his pick for PFA Player of the Year.<\/p>\n
The Blues duo are on the six-man shortlist for the top award along with Harry Kane, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alexis Sanchez and Romelu Lukaku.<\/p>\n
Conte feels Hazard and Kante’s nominations are well deserved for their part in Chelsea’s rise to the top of the Premier League.<\/p>\n
However, the Italian was unwilling to pick one of his key performers this season over the other.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s great, for them, it’s a great achievement to receive this nomination,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I hope for them to be the best player of the year and also I want them to win the league. Awards are important but the most important thing is if you match the two.<\/p>\n
“But I don’t like to make a choice between two of my players. It’s not right. They deserve the best because they are having a good season, but I think all my players are having a great season.<\/p>\n
“I’m pleased because it’s a fight between two of my players and four other players from other teams. I want to see who is the winner.”<\/p>\n
Everton striker Lukaku, who has scored 24 goals this season, has been linked with a return to Chelsea in the summer.<\/p>\n
Former Stamford Bridge great Didier Drogba this week said the Belgium international, sold by Chelsea to Everton for \u00c2\u00a328million in 2014, still has a point to prove at “the house he knows”.<\/p>\n
Yet Conte said: “I think it’s not the right time to talk about this.<\/p>\n
“I have great respect for Drogba, a legend for Chelsea, but I can’t talk about this. It’s not right to talk about players from other teams, we must have respect for players and other clubs.”<\/p>\n
Chelsea head to Manchester United on Sunday with no new injury concerns as they look to cement their place at the summit and move a step closer to the title.<\/p>\n
Source: PA<\/p>\n
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![\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte refused to choose between Eden Hazard and N’Golo Kante as his pick for PFA Player of the Year.<\/p>\nThe Blues duo are on the six-man shortlist for the top award along with Harry Kane, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alexis Sanchez and Romelu Lukaku.<\/p>\nConte feels Hazard and Kante’s nominations are well deserved for their part in Chelsea’s rise to the top of the Premier League.<\/p>\nHowever, the Italian was unwilling to pick one of his key performers this season over the other.<\/p>\n“I think it’s great, for them, it’s a great achievement to receive this nomination,” he said.<\/p>\n“I hope for them to be the best player of the year and also I want them to win the league. Awards are important but the most important thing is if you match the two.<\/p>\n“But I don’t like to make a choice between two of my players. It’s not right. They deserve the best because they are having a good season, but I think all my players are having a great season.<\/p>\n“I’m pleased because it’s a fight between two of my players and four other players from other teams. I want to see who is the winner.”<\/p>\nEverton striker Lukaku, who has scored 24 goals this season, has been linked with a return to Chelsea in the summer.<\/p>\nFormer Stamford Bridge great Didier Drogba this week said the Belgium international, sold by Chelsea to Everton for \u00c2\u00a328million in 2014, still has a point to prove at “the house he knows”.<\/p>\nYet Conte said: “I think it’s not the right time to talk about this.<\/p>\n“I have great respect for Drogba, a legend for Chelsea, but I can’t talk about this. It’s not right to talk about players from other teams, we must have respect for players and other clubs.”<\/p>\nChelsea head to Manchester United on Sunday with no new injury concerns as they look to cement their place at the summit and move a step closer to the title.<\/p>\nSource: PA<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\t\tPlease enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\nFrom Football.co.uk<\/a>\nSouth Africa Today Sport \u2013 Sport News Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea boss Antonio Conte refused to choose between Eden Hazard and N’Golo Kante as his pick for PFA Player of the Year. The Blues duo are on the six-man shortlist for the top award along with Harry Kane, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alexis Sanchez and Romelu Lukaku. Conte feels Hazard and Kante’s nominations are well deserved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[371,30,120,80,188],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-premier-league","tag-football-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dd3e697ee5a9eaf64894e877229e2694.jpg\"){kind=link}