Comparing Eden Hazard and Sadio Mane's stats in their prime PL seasons is very interesting

Who was better in their prime: Sadio Mane or Eden Hazard?

That’s the question that a lot of football fans are asking now that it looks as though both players have banked their statistics, output and records in the Premier League.

Hazard looks set to plough on at Real Madrid having waved goodbye to English shores in 2019 and Mane is now just a confirmation tweet away from being ratified as a Bayern Munich player.

And while there’s still a chance that either or both of the legendary wingers might still return to England’s top-flight one day, it’s highly likely that their primes will have passed them by at that point.

In which case, so be it, because we’ve been lucky to see both Hazard and Mane grace the Premier League with what will already be considered as the zeniths of their star-studded careers.

Now, that’s all well and good, but we need to return to our original question because Mane’s Anfield departure has seen him dragged into the Hazard debate that Mohamed Salah knows all-too well.

Both ourselves and supporters just can’t resist comparing top players from time to time and we couldn’t help digging into matters a bit deeper having seen the back and forth on social media.

Besides, in theory at least, we’re now set for life when it comes to the Mane vs Hazard debate in the Premier League and so the time has never been better than now to pull up their statistics.

And we tend to find that the most interesting way of crunching the numbers of two world-class stars is to have a look at how they matched up during their aforementioned primes.

Interestingly, too, there’s good reason to believe that Hazard and Mane both peaked during the 2018/19 season, which is where we will turn to try and find out who boasted the better