The Belgian has cast doubts over the prospect of him being a 40-goal-a-season player and claims exiting the Champions League was a blessing
Chelsea star Eden Hazard has admitted he thinks Jose Mourinho's expectations of him scoring at the rate of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are beyond him.
The serial Ballon d'Or winners have already bagged 32 and 31 goals respectively in La Liga alone this season, while Hazard has netted just 11 times despite playing in the Premier League's second-most prolific forward line.
The Belgium international revealed last month that Mourinho wants him to score two or three times a game, but he has now suggested that - despite his fruitful season at Chelsea - matching the exploits of the Barcelona and Real Madrid stars is almost impossible.
"I'm happy with my season at Chelsea, just as I was last year, and I am continuing to develop," the former Lille star told L’Equipe. "People [like Mourinho] expect me to score 30 to 40 goals per season [like Messi and Ronaldo] but I'm not like that.
"If there's one point I must improve on it is to be more efficient, to play more for me and score more goals, but I had a great season that can end up with two trophies and that would be great."
Chelsea are en route to securing the Premier League title, though Hazard says the gruelling nature of English football makes it almost impossible to compete both domestically and in the Champions League - even claiming that losing to Paris Saint-Germain was a blessing in disguise.
"After the elimination against Chelsea we were a little bit disappointed," the Belgian continued.
"But now we tell ourselves that, if we went through, the schedule would have been too hard to carry on so maybe it was a blessing in disguise. We could have ended up losing everything.
"PSG deserved it. They played better than we did. Now we only have the league. We will try our best to win the most games possible in order to win another trophy after the League Cup.
"The Premier League is very demanding in terms of energy. It's hard to play in Europe at the same time. When you play tough games at West Ham, Stoke, or Hull and you have to play against top European teams immediately after...
"You could say it was a bad year, too. We lacked luck. Arsenal did a very good game at Monaco but didn't go through."
