Eden Hazard ultimately lost faith in Chelsea’s ability to challenge at the level he wanted to reach and yet it is the Blues and not the Belgian who will play in a Champions League final. This was meant to be Hazard’s stage, the time for him to flick a switch on his Real Madrid career and yet Chelsea turned the lights out on their former star’s Champions League dream for another year. Returning to Stamford Bridge for the first time with a place in the final at stake, Hazard had been relishing the opportunity to remind Chelsea of the magic he produced so frequently at what became his second home. But rather than being the Hazard of old, this was more like an ageing Hazard whose fleet of foot has been dulled by an accumulation of injuries since his £130 million move to Spain. Ahead of this tie, Hazard had only managed 641 minutes of football in almost two years at Real thanks to 10 different injuries and contracting coronavirus, and it showed. There was still the odd turn, such as the one in the first half that lured Jorginho in to earn a yellow card, and Hazard did force the excellent Edouard Mendy into a good second-half save with a well-struck shot. But there were none of the jinking runs, the sudden bursts of pace or the footwork that left defenders struggling to stay on their feet. Rather than looking to embarrass his opponents, as he used to do, Hazard more often than not looked for one of his team-mates with a safe pass.