Eden Hazard. It doesn’t matter when you read it. It may sound like a joke, but unfortunately it is true: the Belgian has dragged some kind of curse since his arrival at Real Madrid and his absence has become a habit.
On Wednesday, it was officially reported that he will be out due to “muscle injury in the left anterior rectus. Awaiting evolution,” the club said.
According to the Spanish newspaper Marca, the Belgian arrived “depressed” at the training, for which coach Zinedine Zidane, who covers him like no other in the club, sent him back to his home with his family to reflect. about the nightmare of injuries since you landed in Madrid.
The source says that this new loss has mainly affected the mind of the player, who has to do a new rehab, which will take as long as it takes, as there will be no rush in seeking the return to the field.
“The engineer’s plan is to protect Hazard, isolate him from the media noise, and find alternatives in the squad to cover his loss, with Vinicius Jr. as the first option pending Rodrygo’s recovery,” the said. media.
The problem is that Hazard will have to see his teammates again from the sidelines, at a critical time in the League and with the eighth of the Champions League (against Atalanta) around the corner. Four muscle problems, three injuries and two fissures, one in the foot and the other in the fibula, have deprived him of nearly half of the matches from the team that paid just over $ 100 million for him. If the loss from covid-19 is added, his story already sounds like a curse.
Are you considering leaving?
While Hazard rests in the infirmary, his most common place in Real Madrid, critics waste no time and from England they wonder if it wouldn’t be right to think about a sale.
“Real Madrid should consider the sale,” said Dimitar Berbatov, analyst today. “He’s had a lot of injuries since he arrived in Spain and that’s kept him from showing that brilliant football he had at Chelsea. If it was an incidental thing … but it’s when a player gets injured over and over again. then surrenders lower than expected when he recovers, which is a sign that there is another problem that concerns him, ”the Betfair ambassador said.
“ Will he be able to get back that form he was in and show that the money Real Madrid invested was the right decision? It is true that Hazard has just turned 30 and he may still have room to give a lot, but this question is the right one. The real key in this whole thing and for now the answer is ‘no’. Hazard has yet to prove that, so it would be no surprise if he could leave in the summer, ” Manchester United added. veteran.