Benitez explains Hazard substitution
Rafael Benitez said he took Eden Hazard off during Chelsea’s draw against Tottenham because the Belgian suffered a slight injury.
Hazard was replaced by Victor Moses with 17 minutes remaining at Stamford Bridge after picking up a knock.
But the problem does not appear to be serious and interim Blues boss Benitez expects Hazard to be available for Saturday’s game at Aston Villa.
Benitez also brought the outstanding Oscar off in the closing stages – a substitution that did not go down well with the home fans.
But the Spaniard explained: “I needed to make substitutions in the wide areas because we were a little tired in those positions and Spurs are fast there.”
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10/05/2013 @ 1:05 am
Benitez is a fat swan fool who can easily kill someone who is suffering from heart pressure, please can someone provide me with a more suitable title for the so call football manager who have the likes of { JT, LAMPARD, BA, AKE, } BUT MADE UP TO BRING ON USELESS MOSES AND LIABILITY BENAYOUN BECAUSE MY TITLE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR HIM….
09/05/2013 @ 11:29 pm
simple substitution, take of torres bring in Ba to cause problems for the opponents defence, remove oscar bring in lampard to hold the midfield. very simple
09/05/2013 @ 10:37 pm
Benitez is never a bad coach. He is trying his best. If chelsea had played lesser games perhaps there wont be need for substituting some key players but the have to be substituted as a result of fatigue. If chelsea have won obviously there would be no reason to argue. Mourinho or any other coach would make a different error other than benitezs otherwise chelsea would be winning all the silverware in europe and england. So let benitez finish his job then we know the next step. Stop criticizing this man coz to me he is not bad coach. He has pushed us thus far too.
09/05/2013 @ 9:33 pm
Benitez is simply undermiming Chelsea’s qualification.Why is it that he doesn’t make such mistakes against Sir Alex Ferguson’s Man U?he is killjoy
09/05/2013 @ 9:21 pm
Benithez day were numbers bcos he is useless coach i hav ever seen chelsea players win some game by demself not useless coach work bcos d way he made him sub is verybad inmagin terry lampard ba on bench dat him useless benayun dey play in big game lik dos liverpool n tottenham i no only useless club will sign dat benitez both benayun.benitez shameless coach
09/05/2013 @ 8:45 pm
Benitez, is a dream killer who does not want chelsea 2 excel. He does not know how 2 subtitute and drop pressure from a team. Mr interim leave chelseafc. Dont kill our team
09/05/2013 @ 8:44 pm
benitez is not coach, wat a change
09/05/2013 @ 5:50 pm
Benitez asked for our respect as fans, therefore I’m also asking all the bloggers to give him some respect he deserves as we post our comments. Not only as a manager but as an elderly man. Why should we subject him to such vulgar language? Please spare him, only two games are remaining for him to go!
09/05/2013 @ 5:21 pm
It was really pain full to see our two super stars hazard and oscar made way 4 these useless players moses and benayoun and we saw the result of substition them. but i still support benitez than mourinho coz he will undermine our new style of play
09/05/2013 @ 5:09 pm
benitez isnt a tactitian,he doesnt think before substituting players and all he thinjs about is squad rotation.even hazard looked surprised at his substitution which doesnt correspond with his excuse.hazard was having a good match and he removed him from the game letting the overlapping walker play his game.benyoun wasnt the right man to come into the frame having removed oscar who was also playing well,everybody knows benayoun isnt the kin dof player he was at liverpool,he’s not a chelsea type of player so why put him in a game with so much pace;why not deploy torres to the wing and bringing on ba?why removing oscar and putting the slower moses with the excuse of wanting to keep up with the pace of the game?why not marin instead of benayoun or moses?…..benitez needs to answer this questions an di really think this should be fowarded if it’s possible…..#irepchelseafc
09/05/2013 @ 4:55 pm
Benitez don’t care wither Chelsea qualify for Champion league because he will not be retain as Chelsea manager so he prefer to win EUPA cup to add to his credentials. So doesn’t care and even will do all he can so that chelsea will not qualify.
09/05/2013 @ 4:47 pm
Moses is not serious at all, he plays anyhow as if he’s jst playin 4 practice,no seriousnes. He is a Disapointment to chelsea. I’m rily tired of him.
09/05/2013 @ 4:42 pm
I knw benitez is tryin his best wit d rotation policy.though he made a mistake in liverpool’s match bt in d totenham i xpected him to remove oscar 1st cos he seems to b tired & he’s not givin d much needed outcome & in d case of hazard he made d ryt decision by substitutin him cos he has bin hit & he’s jst recoverin 4rm an injury,u can see d way he was even walkin & even went straight 2 d dresin room. Wit all due respect lets suport our coach jst 4 d main time & tins wil b bak 2 normal again. Up Blues!
09/05/2013 @ 3:16 pm
Benitez must be blamed for the draw against Tottenham, and when this come every person who knows football must say that “Benitez is not a good coach ” he don’t even to know how to substitute. Take off Hazard give rivals chance to attack.He don’t learn from the past mistakes he did for game against liver. CHELSEA WINS BECAUSE THEY HAVE GOOD PLAYES AND NOT BENITEZ. COME HOME MORINHO
09/05/2013 @ 3:00 pm
HHHM! And they called him coach. So iritating.
09/05/2013 @ 2:54 pm
Rafa is never a good coach even 4 a day.a good coach can nev er bring out Hazard in dat kind of match.he kwns what he’s doing,cfc should let him go before Villa match
09/05/2013 @ 2:12 pm
I don’t blame benitaz. I blame the one who employed him. I can’t sit watching my employee wasting resources like abramovich is doing.it hurts to watch chelsea drop point coz of the coach who doesn’t think tactically. Shame on him!
09/05/2013 @ 1:52 pm
Rafal is not a good boss but a box useless is all
09/05/2013 @ 12:51 pm
he is d most useless coach av ever seen,he is tacticaly poor,he shuld av bring in BA nd withdraw toress 2 the wing,its as simple as that.
09/05/2013 @ 12:40 pm
It was obvious that Hazard had a knock so can undastand his substitution. Moses just didn’t live to my expectation, He playd as though it were a practice session…no spark in his play!
Oscar shld hv bn replacd wt Lampard, not d “weakened” Benayoun who couldn’t withstand the pace of Spurs players. This result makes d Aston Villa game a MUST win.
09/05/2013 @ 12:00 pm
He who comits same mistake several times is a big fool and Benitez is no exceptional, why wil he subtitute hazard in such a game? We realy needs this match at winning level nt even draw. Infact he shud do n leave even befor the season ends. I ever ready to welcme the special one.
09/05/2013 @ 11:36 am
It was his mistake that cause the draw. Thats why i in particular cant support you to be a a permenent manager in chelsea. WE NEED YO THE CHOOSEN ONE@ MOURINHO
09/05/2013 @ 11:12 am
Why is’t that is only chelsea that change their manager every season?
09/05/2013 @ 11:09 am
I think chelsea should tried and win their next matches, if to secure a place in the next champions league
09/05/2013 @ 11:06 am
There was many opportunity for chelsea to denier totteham, but i don’t actually know what happen.
09/05/2013 @ 10:55 am
1,Benitex is a fool.2,his an enemy to chelsea footbal club.3 He don’t want chelsea to go to C L,he is a mad man
09/05/2013 @ 10:38 am
Benitez is useless coach, Ȋ̝̊̅ can’t just imaging how he subtitled hazard n oscar it was a big mistake he give the visitors the chance to equalize he did that same mistake against Livapool he can never be Chelsea coach never
09/05/2013 @ 10:24 am
I ve seen dumb coaches,but benitez is the dumbest,he keep making the same mistakes over n over again,liverpool/spurs game,it is 83 minutes on the clock we r winning 2 -1,all u hav to do is put on experience of frank n terry to hold on to the score,simple as that.
09/05/2013 @ 10:04 am
Benitez was totally wrong last night about his subtitutions,he have remove mata and bring on terry to support the defence and he shouldn:t have remove oscar and hazard
i think against villa he play 4-3-3 formation
cech
azplicueta ivanovic terry cole
remires
hazard oscar
torres mata
ba
09/05/2013 @ 12:14 am
Benitez cannever be chelsea manager,come rain come sun,he does’nt knows how to substitute players,inmargin removing hazard and oscar from dat crucial encounter with spurs,when he knows very well dat day are d ones dat is suportin matain in d game,dat is wat he did against liverpool,when he substituted mata and hazard and after some time liverpool recallize,i dont know d plans dat he has,dat is making him to be substituting key players in crucial encounter,but chelsea will still quallify 4 d UCL whether he like it or not.