In exchange for 22 meetings with Chelsea in 7 years

Hazard in a year with Madrid ... 5 injuries and a missed 23 games

Real fans fear Hazard will turn into a new Gareth Bale.

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Supporters, management and players of Real Madrid, and with them the French coach Zinedine Zidane, received last Wednesday, just two hours before the meeting between Real and Valladolid, in the fourth stage of the Spanish First Division, shocking news of the injury of the royal star, the Belgian Eden Hazard, to miss that match. Which Real Madrid won 1-0, although he was in the reserve list.

This is Hazard's fifth injury since his move to Madrid a little over a year ago, and this time a muscle injury, and it will keep him away for a whole month, which means he will miss the first Clasico of the new season on the 25th of this year.

The irony is that Real, which invested in the player 100 million euros (and 40 million euros in variants), did not benefit much from him, if last season missed 23 games in one year, while in contrast Chelsea missed only 22 games in a full seven years.

"AS" newspaper described Hazard's situation in the Real as "the curse of the stars", and said that it is similar to what happened in the past for a number of players, perhaps the most prominent of whom was the Croatian Prozinski, as well as the Dutch Arjen Rubin, and finally the Welshman Gareth Bell.

The injury contributed to mixing the cards for the transfers in Madrid, as the bet was on loaning the Serbian striker Luka Jovic, and relying on Hazard as a partner to Karim Benzema in the attack, but with the new injury, this could mean loaning the other striker Mayoral, who approached Rome, and keeping Jovic.

The most serious injury he suffered last season in the Champions League, after the violent interference of the Saint-Germain Monier player, which led to his absence for many months, and then multiple injuries between the muscles, and others.

Hazard himself raised controversy at the start of the current season, as he had suffered an injury in Real Madrid training before the season, and yet he was called up to the Belgium national team, but he did not play.

When he returned at the beginning of last September, he was over five kilograms in weight.

Hazard had previously undergone surgery in 2017, during which a titanium piece was placed in the ankle after a fracture he had previously suffered.

And in the same ankle, he suffered multiple injuries with Madrid since last season, which began to raise questions in Madrid about the nature of that process.

Real's suffering increased with injuries after it was confirmed that the defender Carvajal was absent for two months due to a knee injury during the Valladolid match.

The royal is missing in the current 25 El Clásico, Hazard and Carvajal.

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