• Whispers of sport. Hazard's vicious cycle: "You need to be happy"

  • Real Madrid.Hazard falls again and will not play against Atalanta

On Friday, taking advantage of

his return to the squad for the league match

against

the

Elche

,

Zinedine Zidane

threw a cloak to

Eden Hazard

.

The Frenchman had expected everything to be

expected

from the Belgian, he had given him confidence to return to training at his best level, he had defended him at press conferences, he

had insisted that he did not want to "force anyone"

during an injury. . Zidane had given Hazard what he believed he needed most at that moment: time

or.

And that Friday morning, microphone in hand, deluded Real Madrid: "

When he gets fucking motherfucking he'll be awesome

.

He sure does well here. "More than a month after his injury against Levante, the Frenchman awarded him

fifteen minutes against Elche

and the Belgian participated, although somewhat timid, in the comeback.

Receiving heeled to the band, performing not too explosive actions, moving with respect to his body on the front of the attack ... He fulfilled, at least, what was expected of him after the last muscular problems.

On the horizon, all eyes on him

duel against Atalanta

, key in the meringue season and '

Champions stage

'for which Hazard was signed for 100 million euros.

There Zidane was waiting for him and there Real Madrid was waiting for him. Three days after that speech and 48 hours after his return,

Hazard, Zidane, the club and their fans twist the gesture again

with a new injury to the Belgian footballer.

An inexplicable injury, as the coach admitted this Monday morning: "

Something is happening

, a player who had never been injured ... is new to him and

I can't explain more

".

A different injury in a different area

Hazard's new injury is in the

right psoas

, an area totally away from the

left anterior rectus

, where the February one took place.

A circumstance that, together with the little action that the former Chelsea player saw against Elche (just 15 minutes), forces us to think about the

psychological situation of the footballer

.

"These are things that happen in football," Zidane acknowledged about injuries to the squad, including Hazard's.

"Short preseason, many games,

accumulation of many things in the head ...

That influences a lot, "he admitted." What worries me about Eden are not the injuries.

It is that he is happy.

It is what you need, "he argued.

Roberto Martinez

, Belgium coach.Hazard, to his own and the club's despair,

you will accumulate almost a year of sick leave when you overcome the new problem

.

Wore

320 days out

putting together the total number of times he has been absent, and it is expected that he will be at least between a month or a month and a half more (30-50 days).

The first time you entered

the white infirmary was 28 years old and had no injuries

.

He is now 30 and has suffered eleven.

"This is only really fixed with

rest and mental disconnection

, a vacation ", advised Kristof Stas, doctor of the national team. Emergency solutions for times of emergency.

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