The League10am this morning. The twitter account of Miguel Angel Díaz of the Spanish radio station Cadena Cope: ‘Eden Hazard has a problem with his calf’.
Miguel, a very good and reliable journalist, says he is sure – ‘Good sources’. He is not alone. Since Monday, almost the entire Madrid press has been unhappy that Hazard can finally resume full group training only twelve days after his flu attack – in this case this morning. Rodrygo, for example, stayed in bed on Sunday with the flu, but he had just started training again – three days later.
Just 13 h. Carlo Ancelotti at his press conference: “Hazard is in the squad for the game against Bilbao (tomorrow evening 9pm, live on Eleven Sports) and he will get minutes. Rest assured, there is nothing wrong with Eden.”
Eden Hazard has already given many a journalist who follows Real Madrid gray hair. The truth – as so often – lies somewhere in the middle. According to the information available to your newspaper, Hazard returned to Madrid after the international match against Estonia (November 13) with a calf overload. There was no real ‘injury’, it was more ‘nuisance’. Marc Degryse would describe it this way: ‘Simply not being fit’.
Hazard then gets the flu on Friday 19 November. A strong flu that weakens him. Once he returns to the club’s facilities, the medical staff decides not to let the player train with the group immediately, given Eden’s previous calf problems and his physical weakness. Because Ancelotti only talks about ‘flu’ at every press conference, alarm bells are going off in the local press – and therefore also in Belgium. But ‘as we speak’, both the flu attack and the muscle problems would be behind Hazard.
And he can indeed score minutes against Bilbao tomorrow night.
It drives Miguel mad.
At the beginning of November, national coach Roberto Martínez was still positive about Eden Hazard’s situation:
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