Hazard, successfully operated to remove the ankle plate

Eden Hazard has already undergone surgery and is at home to start the recovery process. Real Madrid has announced that the Belgian attacker underwent surgery on Tuesday to remove the osteosynthesis plate on his right fibula. The operation has been carried out successfully and the footballer is expected to be out between four and six weeks.

“Our player Eden Hazard underwent surgery today at the Sanitas La Zarzuela University Hospital for the removal of an osteosynthesis plate on his right fibula. The operation was carried out by Dr. José Palacios under the supervision of the Real Madrid Medical Services. Hazard is already at his home to start his recovery », reads the statement issued by the Chamartín club this Tuesday afternoon.

Hazard decided to undergo surgery to try to solve once and for all the physical problems that have turned his time at Real Madrid into an ordeal. Since he was injured as a result of an entry by his compatriot and teammate Thomas Meunier on November 26, 2019 in a Champions League group stage match that measured Real Madrid with PSG at the Santiago Bernabéu, the former of Chelsea has not raised his head again.

On March 5, 2020, he underwent surgery in Dallas for a fibula fracture, after suffering in a League match against Levante, shortly after his return to the pitch. But the consequences of that operation continued to torment him, preventing him from seeing the footballer who led the Premier League during his stay at Chelsea. The pain has increased in recent weeks and the player, who had stopped entering Carlo Ancelotti’s plans, opted to go through the operating room again to have that plate with screws that was implanted then to join the parts of the fractured bone and stabilize the ankle.

Visit of Florentino Pérez

The operation, which lasted half an hour, has been carried out successfully and the player is now at home. After receiving a visit from Florentino Pérez at the hospital, the Belgian is very excited and hopeful that he can finally see light at the end of the tunnel. At Real Madrid they calculate that he will be out for between four and six weeks, so he will miss the quarterfinals of the Champions League against Chelsea (April 6 and 12) and he could not be available for a hypothetical semifinal either. on April 27 and May 4, as well as in most of the remaining days of the League.

Hazard, who signed for Real Madrid in the summer of 2019, after the club chaired by Florentino Pérez paid 160 million euros for his services and extended a contract of 15 million net per year that expires in 2024, he has only played 65 games in the almost three seasons he has been wearing the white jersey, with a poor balance of six goals and ten assists.

His poor performance and the explosion of Vinicius have left him without a place in Carlo Ancelotti’s schemes just a few months before the World Cup in Qatar. So far this year he has only added 877 minutes spread over 22 games.