Eden Hazard. It doesn’t matter when you read it. It may sound like a joke but it is sadly true: the Belgian has been carrying some kind of curse since his arrival at Real Madrid and his absences have become a habit.
This Wednesday it was officially reported that he will be out due to “muscle injury in the left anterior rectum. Pending evolution”, according to the club.
According to the Spanish newspaper Marca, the Belgian came to the practice “downcast”, so the coach Zinedine Zidane, who supports him like no one at the club, sent him back home, with his family, to leave to think a little about the nightmare of injuries since his landing in Madrid.
The source says that this new loss has particularly affected the mood of the player, who has to make a new rehabilitation, which will take as soon as possible, as there will be no rush from anyone to seek a return to the tracks.
“The coach’s plan is to shield Hazard, isolate him from the media noise and try to find alternatives to the squad to cover his injury, with Vinícius Jr. as the first option pending Rodrygo’s recovery.” , assures the environment.
The issue is that Hazard will have to see his teammates from the barrier again, at a critical time in the League and with the Champions League round of 16 (against Atalanta) just around the corner. Four muscle problems, 3 injuries and two fissures, one in the foot and one in the fibula, have deprived him of almost half of the games of the team that paid for him just over 100 million euros. If you add the low for covid-19, its story already sounds like a curse.
Thinking of leaving?
While Hazard rests in the infirmary, his most common place in Real Madrid, critics are not wasting time and from England wonder if it would not be good to start thinking about a sale.
“Real Madrid should consider selling it,” said Dimitar Berbatov, now an analyst. “He’s had a lot of injuries since he came to Spain and that has prevented him from being able to show that brilliant football he had at Chelsea. If it was something occasional … but it’s that when a player gets injured over and over again and then it yields below what was expected when it recovers, this is a sign that there is some other problem affecting it, ”the Betfair ambassador assessed.
“Will he be able to get back that way he had and prove that the money Real Madrid invested was a wise decision? It’s true that Hazard has just turned 30 and he may still have room to give a lot, but that question “The key is in this whole thing, and for now the answer is ‘no.’ Hazard has not yet shown any of that, so it would not be a surprise to be able to leave in the summer,” the veteran added. of Manchester United.