Chelsea's Eden Hazard wins PFA Player of the Year award

The best, most irreplaceable player on England's top team has, fittingly, captured the highest individual honor the Premier League has to offer. 

Chelsea winger Eden Hazard was bestowed with the PFA Player of the Year award at the association's annual gala in London on Sunday, adding another bit of hardware to his increasingly clustered mantelpiece.

"I'm very happy. One day I want to be the best and what I did this season is play very well, Chelsea played very well. I don’t know if I deserve to win but it is good for me," Hazard said after receiving the award.

"It is good, it is better to be voted by the players - they know everything about football. This is good. I’m very happy."

The Chelsea star, 24, beat out five other nominees for the award, as Alexis Sanchez, David De Gea, Philippe Coutinho, Diego Costa and Harry Kane joined the Belgian on the shortlist for the honor.

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Hazard - in the midst of his third season with the Blues since making the move from French side Lille - joins Sanchez as being the only players in the league with at least 13 goals and 8 assists on the campaign. Hazard is also near the top in a host of other categories, including matches and minutes played, key passes and successful dribbles.

"We are almost champions, maybe this is the key. Last season we finished third and this season we have an opportunity to win the league. This has changed from last season.

"I continue like I did last season - I try to be the same. I try to score more goals than last season. Personally I have played a good season, I have been there in the big games and I scored a lot of important goals, this is why I’m better this season."

Simply put, he's been the best player in the Premier League this season, and he's established himself as such while playing for the best team.