Eden Hazard. It doesn’t matter when you read it. It may sound like a joke, but it is, unfortunately, true: the Belgian has dragged a kind of curse since his arrival at Real Madrid and his absences have become a habit.
It was officially reported on Wednesday that he will be out due to “muscle injury in the left anterior rectus. Pending evolution”, according to the club.
According to the Spanish newspaper Marca, the Belgian arrived at training “depressed”, for which coach Zinedine Zidane, who covers him like no one else in the club, sent him back home with his family, so as not to think a bit about the nightmare of his injuries your landing in Madrid.
The source says that this new loss has particularly affected the spirit of the player, who has to make a new rehabilitation, which will last as long as it will last, because there will be no rush when looking to return to the field.
“The technician’s plan is to protect Hazard, isolate him from media noise and try to find alternatives in the team to cover his loss, with Vinícius Jr. as the first option pending Rodrygo’s recovery,” the press said.
The problem is that Hazard will have to see his teammates on the sidelines, in a critical moment of the League and with eighths in the Champions League (against Atalanta) right around the corner. Four muscle problems, three injuries and two cracks, one in the leg and the other in the fibula, deprived him of almost half of the games of the team that paid a little over 100 million euros for him. If you add the loss due to covid-19, his story already sounds like a curse.
Are you thinking of leaving?
While Hazard is resting in the infirmary, his most frequent place in Real Madrid, critics are not wasting time and in England he wonders if it would not be good to start thinking about a sale.
“Real Madrid should consider selling it,” said Dimitar Berbatov, an analyst today. “He’s had a lot of injuries since he came to Spain and that kept him from showing that brilliant football he had at Chelsea. If it was occasional … but when a player is injured again and again and then he teaches less than he expected when he recovers, this is a sign that there is another problem that affects him “, said the Betfair ambassador.
“Will he be able to regain that form he had and prove that the money Real Madrid invested was the right decision? Is it true that Hazard has just turned 30 and that it may still take place? “But Hazard has yet to prove anything, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if he could leave in the summer,” the Manchester United veteran added.