Eden Hazard suffers a muscle injury to the rectus femoris of the right thigh that will keep you a minimum of three weeks off, so will miss the derby against Atlético December 12 at the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium. The Belgian star, who had to retire in the first part of the match that measured Real Madrid with Alavés last Saturday, underwent an MRI on Monday that has confirmed the extent of an ailment that prolongs the ordeal of injuries that He has been pursuing since he landed in the summer of 2019 in Chamartín as a great signing for the whites.
Are already 70 days accumulated in the dry dock this season the former Chelsea player, to which we will have to add a minimum of 21 more that will prevent Zinedine Zidane from having one of his most senior players in such decisive matches as this Tuesday against Shakhtar Donetsk, corresponding to the fifth day of the group stage of the Champions League, or the duel with Sevilla on Saturday at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, to which Real Madrid will arrive specified after adding only one of the last nine points in the league. Nor will the ‘7’ be in the stake on Wednesday, December 9 against Borussia Mönchengladbach in which, depending on what happens on Tuesday at the Kiev Olympic, the whites could play the first place in group B of the Champions League or even a move to the last 16, in case they stumble in Ukraine.
Physical setbacks are preventing Hazard from performing at the level expected of him when Real Madrid recruited him to lead a team that a year earlier had lost Cristiano Ronaldo. The Belgian, who suffered hardly any mishaps during his seven Premier League campaigns, He could only play 22 games in his first season at Real Madrid, in which he spent 186 days away from the playing rectangles due to various injuries, the most serious of which occurred on November 26, 2019, when an entry by his compatriot Thomas Meunier in a match against PSG in the groups of that edition of the Champions left his right ankle damaged.
He returned almost three months later, but in an ephemeral way, since at the end of February 2020 he relapsed into a clash against Levante and had to undergo surgery in Dallas. The stoppage due to the pandemic allowed him to play in the final trap of that course, but without the confidence and pace that made him become one of the most unbalanced footballers on the continent.
Nor is Hazard having fortune this season. He came overweight to the preseason and since then has accumulated three other injuries that, added to the two weeks he was out due to coronavirus, They have only allowed him to play six games, none of them complete, in which he has scored two goals. A situation that generates great concern at Real Madrid.
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