Lin the image of Eden Hazard sitting on the bench at Real Madrid is no longer news. The Belgian has spent 930 of the 960 minutes that his team has played, with him in the call, since he was the last time starter. That happened before the Sheriff at home, on September 28. One hour of play spread over five appearances, the longest lasting 21 minutes (against Osasuna).
Hazard, who came to be one of the stars of LaLiga, does not appear in this competition from 2-1 to Lightning November 6. Five games have passed since then. Two of them lost to gastroenteritis and in the last three he didn’t even jump to warm up.
Away from the plans of an Ancelotti who made it clear long ago what was happening with Hazard, 7 for white is faced with an opportunity that was not counted on. The outbreak of coronavirus that plagues the Real Madrid squad has removed from circulation three players who have accompanied the untouchables more assiduously Benzema and Vinicius. The virus has attacked Rodrygo, Asensio and Bale. They are the three players who have occupied the far right the most.
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In fact, against Shakhtar at the Bernabu, Ancelotti’s response to Rodygo’s loss suggests that Hazard lacks right of pernada in this team. The presence of the Galician in his natural zone, in which he was trained and earned him to return from the Spanish To the first white team, it cannot be seen as a surprise.
And neither does the white coach move the team to play with a scheme based on a 4-4-2 with Valverde and Camavinga.
The devastating for Hazard It will be a team with Isco or a youth squad on the right wing.
And Hazard entering the team can no longer be to play in the position that feels most comfortable: the left-handed winger. That position is owned by Vinicius. The Brazilian has earned it hard. He is the most unbalanced player who has Ancelotti and a scheme is not imaginable without Vini roaming freely from the left.
The entrance of Hazard in the team it will be to play out of zone, as he had to do before him Sheriff at the Bernabu. So it was on the right wing. This season, only against Alavs and Levante he started in the position where he arrived to be the star of the team.
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With his future up for debate
And Hazard does not enter into the plans of Ancelotti now the shadow of a possible exit of the team in the winter market is growing. In the week that Little has opened its doors to the one who was its great icon, Hazard he can start again in Madrid. Otherwise it will be clear that their future in the capital of Spain hardly exists. It will be in the short term. Because long the space for a player of Hazard’s rank is minimal. With this Vinicius and the imminent arrival of Mbapp There is no way to fit Belgian.
For Eden it is his now or never more intense. Between the coronavirus and a calendar that softens so that Ancelotti measure efforts in the face of the decisive stretch, Hazard faces knowing what his true reality is in the Real Madrid.
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