The Belgian Eden Hazard will not play the Spanish Supercup with Real Madrid , as confirmed by his coach Zinedine Zidane , who revealed that he will stay in Madrid hurrying the recovery time of his injury, with the aim of returning at the end of January.

"It is discarded one hundred percent , it will not come," Zidane said at a press conference discarding that Hazard could arrive in time to travel to Saudi Arabia and have minutes in the competition.

The objective set by Zidane is that Hazard rejoins the group dynamics after the dispute of the first title of the season, gains physical tone before reappearing and that it is at the end of January when his return can occur if everything follows the marked path.

"At the moment it continues with its normal recovery process and I hope that right after the Super Cup we will gradually see Eden with us," he explained.

Hazard was injured in the Champions League against PSG on November 26 and although he avoided the operating room, his recovery has followed a slow path. He suffers a perimaleolar microfissure in his right leg and his discharge will go to two months duration.

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