Chelsea ace Eden Hazard says this season's form dip was always going to happen.

The former Lille winger scored an impressive 14 Premier League goals last season – no one could have predicted he would still be waiting for his first of this campaign in February.

And Hazard, too, is left searching for answers but accepts a spell like this is always on the cards.

"This is the first time this has happened to me, but it was always going to happen at some stage," he told the Guardian.

"You have to learn from it. I'm a human being, not a machine. I've been a professional since I was 16, so maybe that has had an influence too."