LEICESTER -- Eden Hazard said he has decided his future and is waiting for Chelsea to act on his wishes after making what is likely to be his final Premier League appearance for the club against Leicester City.

Despite starting on the bench at the King Power Stadium, Hazard's name was sung all afternoon by the travelling Chelsea supporters, several of whom held up a banner urging him to spurn interest from Real Madrid and stay at the club.

Sources told ESPN FC this week that Hazard wants Chelsea to sanction his desired move to the Spanish giants as soon as possible, and speaking after the game the Belgian confirmed he has made his feelings known to the club hierarchy.

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"Yes I have made my decision, but it is not just about me," Hazard said on the subject of his future. "I'm still waiting."

Asked if he has told the club, Hazard replied: "Yes. A couple of weeks ago."

Maurizio Sarri said in December that it was time to resolve Hazard's future, and the Belgian agreed that he would have preferred clarity a little earlier in the season. "Yes, I wanted that but that's not happened. I'm still waiting like you are waiting and like the fans are waiting."

Chelsea's goalless draw with Leicester, coupled with Tottenham's 2-2 draw at home to Everton, secured Sarri a third-place finish in the Premier League to cap the Champions League qualification that was sealed with victory over Watford last weekend.

Hazard, however, insisted that Chelsea's presence in Europe's elite club competition next season will have no bearing on his future. "No, I don't think so. I have made my decision, that's it. I'm still waiting."

Chelsea have a chance to end the season with silverware by beating Arsenal in the Europa League final in Baku later this month, and Hazard expects to be able to announce his decision after the game.

But the Belgian -- who registered 16 goals and 15 assists for Chelsea in the Premier League -- insisted that the persistent speculation linking him with Madrid in recent months has not affected his focus when it comes to football.

"Never, never," he said. "When you are on the pitch, you try to be focused on the pitch with the ball. That's it. When I am on the pitch I just try to do the best. I am not thinking about this and this, my situation or the club's situation. I just try to win games."

Liverpool's Sadio Mane and Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang both scored twice on the final Sunday to share the Premier League's Golden Boot award for top scorer with last season's winner Mohamed Salah.

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The achievement of the three African strikers left Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp especially proud as he has played such an important part in the development of the trio's careers.

They all ended on 22 goals for the league campaign after Senegalese forward Mane scored twice in Liverpool's 2-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers to join his Egyptian teammate Salah.

Arsenal's Gabonese forward Aubameyang followed his midweek Europa League semifinal hat trick in Valencia with a second-half double that helped the Gunners to a 3-1 win at Burnley.

Though Mane and Salah's 44 goals proved in vain for Klopp as his side lost out on the league title to Manchester City, who won 4-1 at Brighton & Hove Albion, he had reason to smile.

"Auba too?" Klopp said, on learning that Aubameyang, his former signing at Borussia Dortmund, shared the accolade.

"Do they have three boots? It is good. They are all my players."

African and proud!!
Sharing the golden boot with my 2 brothers @MoSalah & Sadio Mané ☝??? pic.twitter.com/o3n2KQmCRl

— Aubameyang P-E (@Aubameyang7) May 12, 2019

The 22-goal winning mark was the lowest since the 2010-11 season when Manchester United's Dimitar Berbatov and Manchester City's Carlos Tevez shared the Golden Boot with 20 goals apiece.

Aubameyang was delighted over the trio's African connection, and said: "I share this trophy with two other guys I like, great players and African. We are representing Africa, that's cool."

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Salah, who had scored 32 goals last season, was not as prolific this term as in his record-breaking 2017-18 campaign but both he and Mane finished a goal ahead of champions Manchester City's top marksman Sergio Aguero.

Of course, the Argentine, who matched Thierry Henry in scoring 20 or more goals in five straight seasons in the Premier League era, probably netted the most crucial goal with his equaliser at Brighton that set City on course for the title.

Former Manchester City and Barcelona man Yaya Toure has denied that he has retired from football despite his agent claiming the midfielder called time on his playing career.

Last week, the player's agent Dimitry Seluk said that Toure had retired and planned to focus on coaching but the 36-year-old has publicly stated that he intends to continue.

"There has been a lot of confusion about my future recently," Toure wrote on Twitter. "I want to make it clear here that I love football and I'm still in contention to play for a few more years.

"Yes, I'm starting to prepare myself for coaching badges but full time coaching is not what I'm thinking right now."

Toure has been a free agent since leaving Greek Super League club Olympiakos after only three months last year.

He added: "I am now ready and focused to take new challenges in playing football. And don't worry once the time has come, I will announce my retirement personally and officially by myself."

Toure has enjoyed a successful playing career, winning two La Liga titles and a Champions League with Barca whilst claiming three Premier League titles, two League Cups and the FA Cup with City.

Liverpool will learn from their mistakes after coming agonisingly close to winning the Premier League title and hope to come back stronger next season, defender Andy Robertson has said.

The Merseyside club ended their league campaign one point behind champions Manchester City, who sealed a second successive title by coming from a goal down to beat Brighton and Hove Albion 4-1 on Sunday.

Liverpool finished with 97 points, the highest points tally of any team to finish runners-up in English top-flight history, and lost only one league game all season -- at City in January.

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"We've not done much wrong, but we'll learn from it," Robertson told Liverpool's website. "The good thing is that City know we're here now and we're not going anywhere.

"This squad will stay together and we need to put everything into next season.

"Nobody has lost this Premier League, it's been won -- and it's been won by an unbelievable team that's set the standard. We kept up with them but we just fell short."

The disappointment of losing out on the title has been somewhat eased by Liverpool reaching their second successive Champions League final.

The club could still end their season on a high by beating Tottenham Hotspur in the Madrid showpiece on June 1 to claim their sixth European Cup.

"We're in the final now and we need to take that one step further that we didn't take last season," Robertson said, referring to Liverpool's defeat by Real Madrid in last season's Champions League final.

"If we can do it then it'll be a hell of a season. We know how hard that game against Tottenham is going to be."

Eighty-three seconds; that's all they had. For just under one and a half minutes, Liverpool and their supporters allowed hope to turn into belief that a 29-year wait to be champions of England would come to an end on the final day of the Premier League season.

Having taken a 17th-minute lead against Wolves at Anfield through Sadio Mane, news came through that Glenn Murray had headed Brighton in front against Manchester City at the Amex Stadium. A murmur went around Anfield before turning into a deafening roar.

At first, though, it was a false dawn. In the modern era of instant news on social media, the phenomenon of misheard score lines and false alarms about goals should be a thing of the past, but Liverpool fans repeatedly jumped up and celebrated wildly, under the incorrect impression their title rivals were trailing.

Moments later, though, a second ripple became a crescendo of noise. Brighton had scored and The Kop erupted. Flares were lit and songs were sung; the title was finally within Liverpool's grasp. Some 215 miles south, Pep Guardiola removed his grey coat as his agitation grew.

For Liverpool to win their first title since 1990, they needed to win their game and hope for City to slip up. Nobody really believed it would happen -- Guardiola's men had not even fallen behind in a league game since losing at Newcastle in January -- but on the very last day of the season, it was happening.

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Fate? Maybe it was on Liverpool's side. Maybe that incredible 4-0 Champions League semifinal second leg victory against Barcelona last Tuesday was merely the precursor to the main event five days later.

But within 83 seconds of Murray's goal, Sergio Aguero levelled for City and the elation gave way to deflation inside Anfield. At that stage, with Liverpool winning and City drawing, Jurgen Klopp's team were still on course to end the day as champions.

Liverpool supporters knew, though. A lull descended over the stadium, punctured only by the Wolves fans celebrating. More City goals were inevitable and so it proved. Aymeric Laporte made it 2-1 with a storming header eight minutes before half-time, then Riyad Mahrez and Ilkay Gundogan completed City's emphatic victory in the second period.

Wolves supporters, basking in the Anfield sunshine, mocked their counterparts by cheering City's goals and singing the name of former Liverpool winger Raheem Sterling -- now a key man at City -- before rubbing it in by chanting, "you nearly won the league!" It summed up the situation in one way, yet did little to explain how remarkable the battle at the top has been.

Liverpool ended the season on 97 points, having suffered just one defeat -- against City in early January -- but still did not walk away with the trophy because City racked up 98. Legendary former Anfield manager Bill Shankly used to say that first is first and second is nowhere, but that is harsh on his old club this season.

They played their part in the most incredible title race for at least 20 years -- nothing has compared to their battle with City since Manchester United's Treble winners edged out Arsene Wenger's first great Arsenal side in 1999 -- but at the end of it, ended as runners-up because Pep Guardiola's City have been so good.

Never before have two teams surged through the run-in with such incredible consistency. So much for the nerves and anxiety of the season's final weeks, both clubs just kept winning; City amassed 14 straight victories to close out the campaign, while Liverpool managed nine in a row.

City claimed a league record 100 points last season, and 12 months on, fell just two short of equalling that historic tally. However, in contrast to 2017-18, when they finished 19 points clear of second-placed Manchester United, this time they were pushed every inch of the way.

"I think first we have to say congratulations Liverpool as well -- and thank you, of course -- because they helped us to push and improve our standard from last season," Guardiola said. "I think it's not just my feeling, it's the feeling of the team and the club, the players and the staff, this is the toughest Premier League title win that we have won, in my career by far."

Vincent Kompany agreed, saying this was the toughest title of the four he has won as City captain, at the conclusion of a race defined by incredible quality and the finest of margins. The season ended with seconds separating key moments, but you might say that millimetres were the ultimate difference between City and Liverpool.

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When Liverpool travelled to the Etihad Stadium on Jan. 4, they were seven points clear at the top and knew victory would open a gap of double digits, surely ending City's hopes. Early in the game, a goal-line clearance by John Stones, who got to the ball with 11 millimetres to spare, kept the score 0-0 and City went on to win and reduce the gap to four points.

Stones said later "those sorts of things can change games." As it transpired, his intervention went beyond one match in terms of importance for the eventual champions, who would also beat Burnley with an Aguero goal that crossed the line by just 29.5 millimetres.

Liverpool were not without their own moments of good fortune, never more so than in the 96th minute of a goalless Merseyside derby in early December when Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford pushed Virgil van Dijk's looping shot onto the crossbar. Divock Origi scored from the rebound. Everton manager Marco Silva called the victors "lucky, lucky, lucky," but the goal ignited belief that this could be Liverpool's year.

Six days later, Guardiola's men began to wobble when they lost at Chelsea, and back-to-back defeats against Crystal Palace and Leicester later in December threw the pendulum in Liverpool's favour. But Klopp's side stumbled in a five-week period from late January, drawing four times in six games. When the final whistle blew in a 0-0 draw at Everton on March 3, City were back in control.

Run-ins are often defined by challengers slipping up, which is what made this iteration so remarkable: There was no choking in the final straight. The approaches were often contrasting -- City racked up wins relentlessly with almost machine-like efficiency, while Liverpool lived on the edge with an indefatigable capacity -- but both teams had their foot firmly on the pedal.

City went from the end of January to the final day without trailing in a game, and when they needed a big contribution from a big player, saw Aguero or Raheem Sterling step up. More unlikely was the scoring contribution of inspirational captain Kompany, who delivered with a 30-yard stunner to beat Leicester.

Liverpool had Mohamed Salah to score a wonder goal against Chelsea and squeezed by Tottenham thanks to a late own goal, before Origi headed a late winner at Newcastle.

There was excellence on both sides. Aguero, Salah and Mane each scored more than 20 league goals, while Sterling and Van Dijk claimed one domestic player of the year apiece. Laporte brought to City defensively what Van Dijk gave Liverpool. In goal, the two Brazilians, Ederson Moraes and Alisson Becker, took the position to a new level.

Either side would have been worthy champions, but while City head into the summer with medals around their neck, Liverpool's wait goes on. Klopp and his players stayed at the city's Hope Street Hotel ahead of the Wolves game, perhaps attempting to conjure a last bit of fate. In the end, there was no hope, but their manager insisted this was no one-off.

"This team is one of the best to ever play for Liverpool," Klopp said. "This club is in a great moment and that will not end because another team finished with one point more. There is more to come, we will go again. This team tried for the first time, and is one of the best to play for LFC, 100 percent. If you think this is our only chance with a side like this, I feel for you."

Liverpool might have regrets about drawing against Arsenal, Leicester and West Ham -- games in which they took the lead -- but, equally, City will look back with relief at a missed Riyad Mahrez penalty when the two sides met at Anfield in early October.

The former Leicester winger redeemed himself at the Amex with a crucial goal, which made the score 3-1 and banished any prospect of a Brighton fightback, and in doing so spurred the defiance of Liverpool fans at Anfield, who sang about going to Madrid ahead of next month's Champions League final against Tottenham.

A sixth European Cup win would soften the blow of missing on the league title, but for now Liverpool must accept that City have just been too formidable, too powerful and too ruthless. Both sides are set to go head-to-head again next season, and given they have redefined what it takes to dominate while the rest of their top-six rivals are floundering to varying degrees, few would pick against them a repeat of the top two.

As for the order in which they finish, the past nine months have shown that even the tiniest edge can be crucial in deciding the destination of the Premier League trophy.

Tasmania have signed young Western Australian quick Alex Bevilaqua for next season as part of a squad littered with fast bowlers.

Bevilaqua, 22, played two Sheffield Shield matches for Western Australia in early 2018 but only managed a handful of Futures League games last season. The 207cm quick was a long-term project for the Warriors and had worked closely with Tasmania coach Adam Griffith when he was WA's bowling coach prior to taking the head coaching role with the Tigers.

Bevilaqua joins a squad already featuring Jackson Bird, Riley Meredith, Gabe Bell, Sam Rainbird, Gurinder Sandhu, Tom Rogers and James Faulkner as the Tigers look to exploit the seamer friendly conditions at Bellerive Oval in both formats next season.

Tasmania have rewarded local talents Alex Pyecroft and Sean Willis after both men debuted in the Sheffield Shield last season following excellent performances in Tasmania Premier cricket. Pyecroft took 5 for 28 in his second match against Queensland.

Veteran George Bailey returns for his 19th season with Tasmania. He began last season as the Tigers' skipper in both formats but handed the captaincy to Matthew Wade halfway through the season to concentrate on his batting. He suffered a nasty shoulder injury in the BBL semi-final playing for the Hobart Hurricanes but is expected be fit for the start of next season.

Tasmania batting coach Jeff Vaughan will oversee the start of the Tigers pre-season with Griffith away on secondment with Australia's World Cup squad.

Tasmania Men's 2019-20 squad George Bailey, Gabe Bell, Alex Bevilaqua, Jackson Bird, Alex Doolan, Jake Doran, James Faulkner, Caleb Jewell, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Simon Milenko, Tim Paine, Alex Pyecroft, Sam Rainbird, Tom Rogers, Gurinder Sandhu, Jordan Silk, Matthew Wade, Charlie Wakim, Beau Webster, Sean Willis Rookies Iain Carlisle, Jarrod Freeman, Lawrence Neil-Smith, Keegan Oates, Jack White, Macallister Wright

Beaten Sheffield Shield finalists New South Wales have upgraded left-arm quicks Daniel Sams and Greg West to their contract list for 2019-20 as they continue to develop youth.

The Blues have kept a fairly stable squad after falling just short of claiming the Shield against a dominant Victoria side.

Sams, 26, has been rewarded after an excellent JLT Cup last season. He also made his Sheffield Shield debut playing two matches prior to the BBL break. West, 24, also impressed in his first two Sheffield Shield matches, taking five wickets against South Australia on debut and three against Victoria.

New South Wales were keen to keep continuity within the squad that was revamped under new coach Phil Jaques last season. Teenagers Jack Edwards, Jason Sangha and Baxter Holt all debuted last season with Edwards and Sangha playing all 11 Shield games in order to fast-track their development as long-term players.

"When you try to develop players, you want to give them an opportunity to do well," Jaques said. "We obviously want to reward performance as well which we've done with the changes that we've made.

"I think the long-term development of the core group of young guys is still, very, very important, as is the leadership that the [senior players] have shown over the last 12 months."

Young batsman Ollie Davies, 18, and wicketkeeper batsman Matt Gilkes, 19, have both been handed rookie contracts. Davies became the first player to make a double century in a 50-over match at the Australian Under-19 Championships last season while Gilkes made 51 on BBL debut for Sydney Thunder.

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