Chelsea great Eden Hazard insists he was a better footballer than Cristiano Ronaldo.

Hazard says only Lionel Messi was superior in terms of his generation.

He told L'Equipe: "Individually, Messi is perhaps the only one.

"I loved watching the Barcelona player, less so at the end, but he's the greatest in history.

"It's impossible to take the ball away from him.

"Cristiano is a bigger player than me but, in terms of pure football, I honestly don't think so. Neymar, maybe.

"After that, he's no better than me, but at Real, you've got the best, also in terms of their careers: (Karim) Benzema, (Luka) Modric, they were the best, (Toni) Kroos, Kev (De Bruyne), they all exude football."