The Blues have found goals hard to come by so far this season. Of all the teams currently in the top five of the Premier League table only Tottenham Hotspur (30) have scored fewer (33).
Much of this is down to a reliance on Hazard to produce the goods.
Olivier Giroud has netted just once in the top flight of English football thus far, whilst Alvaro Morata has chipped in with six but his confidence has dipped of late and wasn't in the matchday squad for the win over the champions on Saturday evening.
Instead Hazard led the line, playing as a 'false nine' and claimed the assists for N'Golo Kante and David Luiz in either half as the Blues ran out 2-0 winner at Stamford Bridge.
Sarri was clearly impressed with the Belgian international's display and confirmed he plans to use this option in the future.
"He had some problems at the beginning of the match, but I think he played really a very great second half," Sarri told reporters . "Maybe he deserved to score.
"I think it's a very good option. We will play like today in the future for some matches of course."
Playing without an out-and-out centre-forward did prove rather successful for Sarri at former club Napoli.
Dries Mertens was the internal solution when Arkadiusz Milik suffered a serious knee injury and he managed to score 22 goals across all competitions last season.
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