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Antonio Conte hails "fantastic" Eden Hazard

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Chelsea manager Antonio Conte heaps praise on the "fantastic" form of Eden Hazard.

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has heaped praise on the form of Eden Hazard in the team's new system.

The Blues have won five games in a row without conceding since Conte switched to a 3-4-3 formation, with Hazard one of the players to have flourished most in that time.

The 25-year-old has already scored seven goals this season - three more than the entire 2015-16 campaign - and Conte is delighted with what he is seeing from the Belgian.

"I like to see my players always involved in the project, in the idea of football. You can see Eden is always involved in the game, not calm and off during the game. He's always a point of reference for his team-mates. I think he's fantastic [at] this. If you want to pass the ball, he's always in the right position to receive," he told reporters.

"To be a complete player you must do both phases, with the ball and without the ball. Eden is doing this and it's fantastic. The season has just started. It's important to continue, to continue to work, to continue to work very hard, to have this commitment, this work-rate, during the training sessions, during the game.

"When we have the ball you can see that he can have freedom, but always to respect the other roles and the other two strikers, [Diego] Costa and Pedro. For this reason always there is a rotation of these three strikers. In this system Eden is working a lot without the ball, but in a position more ahead than before. And for him it's better. For him [and] for Willian, for Pedro, also for Diego."

Chelsea will look to make it six wins on the bounce when they face Middlesbrough on Sunday.

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