• Real Madrid-Celta.Zidane: "Hazard is here to play"

The messages coming out of the Bernabéu and Valdebebas on November 27 in the morning were bleak. "Bad looking, a real put ..." Hazard's injury, broken last night before PSG, was already felt serious. It was also very inconvenient news for the damage to the player, just when it began to take off, and for the foreseeable impact on the team, on the way to an end of the year full of commitments, with the classic as the most important event. The Super Cup also appeared in January, where whites would play the first title.

On the palate there were still the good minutes that the Belgian had starred in the game against PSG, before a bad ankle turn in the second part left him KO. He looked overflowing, verticality, game vision ... A demon difficult to stop for rivals. The player, in short, for which he had paid Real Madrid 100 million euros in June looking for the super star that was missing in the squad since the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo .

He did not expect tons of goals from the Portuguese, but his capacity for intimidation and offensive vertigo. A figurine, the name called to be the franchise player. But suddenly, with Real Madrid displaying the smile of illusion with his new idol, he touched a stretcher, an operating room and almost three months of retirement. Tonight, the white fans will see him again in his stadium. "He is here to play," Zinedine Zidane announced Saturday, with surprising clarity at his press conferences.

Without the Belgian, his team has not fared badly, reformulated from behind, more solid than in his previous stage and, finally, leader of the League after a surprising evolution. Courtois is the least goalkeeper goalkeeper and Benzema fights Messi for Pichichi. Along the way, with Hazard absent, a title in his pocket (the Super Cup ) and the competitiveness recovered without anyone attacking the vacancy of 7. Vinicius, Rodrygo, Bale, Lucas ... All have been entering and leaving, adding sometimes, not so much, while the team grew from the core.

City Road

Now the coach will have to go around the system to fit his star without resisting the structure. He returns, it is true, to the doors of two decisive curves for the white season: the classic, in two weeks, and the Champions League tie against Manchester City , with the first leg on February 26. The objective of Zidane is that Hazard take a temperature in the two league games that arrive before the momentous events, where his team will play the League and the European trip.

Celta can be a good function for Hazard's return, either playing for a while from the starting lineup or leaving in the second half. «I am very happy that he returns because he is a unique player. We did not want to rush with him so that the sensations were very good. We know what the team wins with him and that's why we signed him. He is a great player and it is time for him to return to the team, ”said Marseille coach.

Rodrygo and Lucas will rest, with Benzema's company to be defined. Zidane was asked yesterday about the defensive face of his team. «Soccer is always balance. The legend of Real Madrid is to attack and play football well. But defensively we have to work hard and hard. It's what we are doing lately. In football, balance is what gives results.

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