Poor punditry

So I was in bed watching Match of the Day yesterday after spending all day in Huddersfield. The showing of the first game's highlights had just finished, with the Alan Pardew incident obviously first on the agenda, which I completely understand. The second game, Fulham vs Chelsea, is then shown, with Chelsea running out 3-1 winners. But what annoyed me was the analysis after the game by Alan Hansen and Robbie Savage. 

André Schürrle's first hat trick for Chelsea was 'overshadowed' by Eden Hazard according to Robbie Savage. I'm sorry, but how can anyone who hits a hat trick in a derby be overshadowed? Eden Hazard is an exceptional player, there's no doubt about that, but yesterday belonged to Schürrle. Hazard did assist two of his goals, but Schürrle had to be clinical to finish them; he could have hit all of his shots straight at the keeper or put them wide. For someone to score their first hat trick in English football, especially someone that has to have been patient to take his chance, I feel he was neglected by MOTD rather unfairly.

Chelsea have an abundance of attacking talent that has been constantly praised this season (Hazard, Oscar etc) but I'm going to name two instances that make the André Schürrle situation odd. Firstly, there was Eto'o's hat trick against Manchester United, with everything focused on Eto'o because he scored all three of the goals, so stole the show in many respects. Maybe that was due to the magnitude of the game, Chelsea vs Man Utd has always been a massive fixture, and it was played on a Sunday, so that is understandable. The second is when Chelsea beat Norwich 2-0 earlier in the season, where Willian received a lot of praise for his goal, and I will admit that it was a great hit. But that got a whole analysis from the pundits as to why it flied into the top corner; André Schürrle got a sentence of recognition from Gary Lineker - "a great hat trick from Schürrle but".

Even the interview snippets after the game in which Schürrle was interviewed, the only question that he was asked which was broadcast was "what did Jose Mourinho say to you at half time?", not "how did it feel to score your first hat trick in English football?" or even "how big is that win to your season?". What's even worse is that they asked the exact same question to Mourinho himself. Why does the same question need to be asked to two different people, especially when the person whom the question concerned was one of the two people asked? It's very poor from MOTD in my opinion.