The process of returning to normality, or to new normality, the concept of fashion, has had a name at Real Madrid, that of Eden Hazard (29 years old). The Belgian's recovery is total and, as AS has learned, he feels ready to start against Eibar. The decision will depend on Zidane (there is a week of training and he has not communicated anything yet), but, if the last word were from the footballer, next Sunday at Di Stéfano (7:30 p.m.) it would be him and ten more. He is doing as well as he can in such a particular context: he only lacks, like the rest of the squad due to inactivity, the rhythm given by games. And that's what you need: minutes to reach your peak and improve his current records, one goal and five assists.
This newspaper has been telling step by step the magnificent evolution of Hazard, the greatest beneficiary of the break due to the coronavirus. His injury at the Ciutat de València on February 22 greatly worried Madrid, who saw how a second mishap and almost consecutively in the same area endangered the presence of his great star in the rest of the course. After a more variable € 100m investment last summer, the attacker's first season seemed doomed to disappointment over physical problems.
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However, the pause in the pandemic competition served Hazard as a lifeboat. On March 5 he was successfully operated on in Dallas for a fracture of the right distal fibula and, just a few days later, recently landed in Spain, he was informed in Valdebebas with his colleagues that the positive of Trey Thompkins, of the basketball section , required home quarantine for at least two weeks. That period was increased when the state of alarm was decreed, time used by Hazard to keep meeting the deadlines.
The removal of the stitches and the examinations after the first two weeks, considered key by specialists to check progress after a surgical intervention like his, led to optimism. Everything was going great and on April 30 AS revealed two important steps in his rehabilitation: Hazard had not only started to run, but also had contact with the ball at his home.
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On Wednesday May 6, he went to Ciudad Real Madrid to undergo the coronavirus tests and the following Monday he returned to training. He soon exercised as one of the group, an unequivocal sign that he was on the right track. Soon the euphoria began to grow in all spheres of the club, from the managers to the fans, passing through the coaching staff and their teammates, amazed at their potential.
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Hazard, then, has changed the Eurocopa for the League. Eden and Belgium, as Roberto Martínez repeated, were betting that he would arrive at the national team tournament. On June 13 the Belgian Red Devils should have played their first group stage match against Russia in Saint Petersburg. Hazard was expected to start the match, and it could be this Sunday 14 against Eibar. That remains in the hands of Zidane, little given to risk and very supportive of reintegrating the injured little by little.
Because of this widely accepted internal policy in Valdebebas, he is suspicious that the French put, like Asensio, the Belgian at the start. For his first comeback, after a muscular setback in September, Zizou gave him 30 minutes to take flight for PSG, a strategy that Eden saw logical. Now he feels more prepared, but Zizou's doubts can be fueled by the proximity of Valencia's difficult visit (June 18, 10:00 p.m.) ... and can convince him to dare the level offered by his crack in the sessions of this kind of preseason.
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