CAPE TOWN — Maurizio Sarri believes Eden Hazard can win the Golden Boot and said he has told the Belgian international that he can score 40 goals this season.

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Hazard took his tally to five in five on Saturday as he scored a hat-trick in Chelsea’s 4-1 win over Cardiff.

Last season, Liverpool’s Mo Salah won the coveted trophy with 32 Premier League goals, while Harry Kane was second with 30.

The most Hazard has managed in a league season was 20 goals for Lille in the 2011/12 Ligue 1 campaign, but the Italian says that Hazard can do much better than that this season.

Asked whether the 27-year old could win the Golden Boot, Sarri replied: “I think so.

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We spoke yesterday and I told him he can score 40 goals.

He has to improve some things, but he can do it.”