Jose Mourinho has won the Premier League Manager of the Year award
for guiding Chelsea to their fifth title, while Eden Hazard has collected the
Player of the Year award.
The Blues ran away with
the Premier League this season, securing the title with three games to spare,
and could finish as far as 11 points ahead of their rivals after the final
round of fixtures on Sunday.
This is Mourinho’s
second season back in the Stamford Bridge hotseat and he has pushed Chelsea one
step further after a second-placed finish last year.
It is also the third
time Mourinho has won the annual award, adding to his 2004-05 and 2005-06
triumphs.
Hazard, meanwhile, can
now add the prize to his PFA Player of the Year and Football Writers’
Association Footballer of the Year awards after a sublime campaign.
The Belgian scored the
goal that sealed their fifth top-flight title against Crystal Palace, one of 14
Premier League strikes in a memorable season.
Mourinho did not win the
Manager of the Month award during the season, but beat fellow nominees Ronald
Koeman, Garry Monk, Nigel Pearson and Arsene Wenger to the overall award, while
Hazard defeated fellow Blues stars John Terry, Nemanja Matic and Cesc Fabregas.
Chelsea face Sunderland
this weekend, as they look to finish with a points tally of 87 in 2014-15.
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