Former Southampton, Chelsea and Leicester City defender Ryan Bertrand has named the toughest opponent of his career.
During Ryan Bertrand’s time playing in the Premier League, the Englishman had to face some of the best players ever seen in the top division of English football.
The 34-year-old defender played against Wayne Rooney and Mohamed Salah just to name a few of the star studded players he has had to face during his career.
Bertrand had a superb trophy haul during his career, winning the Champions League with Chelsea in 2012, as well as the Europa League and FA Cup, also with the Blues.
Bertrand names Chelsea legend as toughest opponent
Despite playing against Manchester United’s all-time leading goalscorer and one of the finest goalscorers Liverpool have had in the 21st century in Salah, Bertrand has named another player as his toughest opponent.
“I’d probably say Hazard,” Bertrand told talkSPORT when asked to name the toughest opponent he has had to play during his career.
“Playing against Hazard was probably a tough one because of his low centre of gravity.”
The English left-back faced Hazard on nine occasions during his time at Southampton and also played with the Belgian winger on 34 occasions during Bertrand’s time at Stamford Bridge.
Hazard will go down as a bonafide Chelsea legend as the former Lille winger was crucial for the club as they won two Premier League titles during his time in West London.
Hazard’s career came to a sad end
After numerous outstanding seasons for Chelsea, Real Madrid came in for the Belgian and splashed out £130 million on the exciting winger.
Sadly for Hazard, and Madrid, the move never worked out as the Belgian had to deal with numerous injury issues during his time in the Spanish capital and never recovered.
Despite this, he still won two La Liga titles, the Champions League, the Super Cup, the Copa del Rey and Spanish Super Cup during his time at Los Blancos.
Hazard will always be remembered for tearing Premier League defences apart and Jamie Carragher once had some high praise for the Belgian.
After Hazard scored an outrageous goal against Liverpool back in 2018, Carragher told Sky Sports: “Think of Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Gianfranco Zola and you can even go back to Diego Maradona and Pele. They can’t be bullied in football. Even though they are great players, you think ‘how do you stop them?’
“You can’t knock them off the ball and he has got that power and strength in the legs and the backside.
“I said on commentary that he is the best player in the Premier League. It’s not because he scored that goal, I believe it. I think he should have been named the best player of the World Cup also.”
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