Your situation is not pleasant. Injuries have broken his career and he does not know when he will be the same footballer as three years ago, when he was chosen as the fifth world player. after Cristiano, Messi, Neymar and Mbappé. He lost that role since his compatriot Meunier destroyed a fibula at the Bernabéu in a Champions League match against PSG. Now, in its third season in Spain, seeks to compensate «and return to Real Madrid something of what he has given me.
The Spanish club paid 100 million transfer to Chelsea and there are 50 million more in bonuses. He feels better gradually, although the house doctors are careful with him. They still don’t want me to dispute
two full consecutive games. That is why it accumulates 203 minutes spread over four league games. After starting against Celta, he did not debut in the Champions League.
His performance has evolved this season. He began as a starter in the triumvirate Bale, Benzema and Hazard who
Ancelotti was invented as the premiere of the course. But the swift explosion of Vinicius arrived to remove the Belgian’s place and an injury has once again ruled out Bale from the Madrid stage. Young people have gotten their beards up.
Hazard replaced the Welshman against Celta in a forward formed with Benzema and the Brazilian winger. In San Siro, three more days late, did not enjoy a minute of Champions. The imperative need to win made the Italian coach bet on Lucas first and Rodrygo later, who decided the victory with a shot on the edge of the clock. The coach said everything very clearly: “I looked for one more player on the wing, to widen the field and enter from the outside.” He chose the young Brazilian scorer. Hazard is a footballer who “tends to go more inside,” he said. It does not look for the flanks. Right now it is not decisive. It is what you want to be again. “Honestly, he is not at the level that we all would like, but we are confident that he will be in his best condition again,” Carletto warned with frank sincerity.
A knee discomfort added to the star’s heavy saddlebags Belgian not to jump on the grass of San Siro. It was better not to risk, not force, we already know what happened to Ramos and Mendy for insisting on facing Chelsea on May 5 without being recovered. Today they are still out, four months later, and they missed the Eurocup. The club’s coaching staff and medical team will never allow that to happen with the Belgian. They are already chastened by the ambitious selfishness of footballers and Hazard does not have that selfishness.
Yesterday still I felt some discomfort in that knee. However, he wants to play, he hopes to do so. Seven days have passed since he starred in an hour of football against Celtiñas, always regulated in time, and today he even aspires to be a starter at the Mestalla.
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He is eager to show, to give back, to satisfy the Madrid fans. Live at a crossroads between your longings and its physical reality. He wants to score goals, be decisive and must do it in sixty minutes, as his medical guards ask the “allenatore” to graduate the striker. Soccer telemetry dictates that after playing 70 minutes is when the overwhelming majority of injuries arrive and do not let “Eden” reach that time on the grass. And it has never, in fact, exceeded 65 minutes.
Today he wants to start and is measured against a Valencia that, like all Bordalás teams, are very tough and play at the limit of the Regulation. They don’t matter to him. You want to jump into the field and decide. It is his third season at Real Madrid and it is the first that he is fed up with his numbers. He has only played 47 games in two years, 34 as a starter, and has only finished four. Five goals and seven assists fill out his discreet balance in Spain, diminished by his fibula injuries.
“For people at home I am the one who is always injured, that is the photograph he has of me now, but no one has played more than me in the last ten years,” he says objectively. «I signed with Real Madrid for five years and the first two were not good, partly due to injuries. I have three more to prove what I am and I hope that happens ». This is his key season, in the middle of his contract. Your crossroads to determine the future. It’s the time for the truth.
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