Eden Hazard goes through the operating room again

Eden Hazard, at PSG-Real Madrid. DPA via Europa Press (DPA via Europa Press)

Eden Hazard will be operated on again.

Real Madrid announced this Friday that the 31-year-old Belgian will undergo surgery to remove the osteosynthesis plate in his right fibula.

It was the one that was placed on him two years ago, in February 2020, after his recurrence of the serious injury that he had suffered three months earlier due to the kick of his compatriot Meunier in a Madrid-PSG match.

The intervention will be next Tuesday in the capital of Spain.

According to the white club, the estimated loss is four or five weeks, deadlines that, if met, would still allow him to arrive on time for the last commitments of the season.

“I had to do it, it was imperative for his health.

Eden was, but he was not.

He couldn't be delayed any longer.

Removing the plate is not only good for his leg, but for his mental internalization that the leg is perfect again, ”say sources from the entity.

The news confirms the suspicion and general feeling of those who have seen the attacker play in the last three seasons: that his physique and mind never fully recovered after the injury in November 2019 and his relapse in February 2020. The player has believed that the best way to try to shake off the continuous discomfort in that area is to remove the plate and return his bodywork to kilometer zero to face the final stretch of his career in the best possible conditions.

With Madrid he has two contract campaigns left.

Sometimes due to discomfort in his right ankle, others due to not feeling safe and strong in that area, and the rest due to both, the truth is that Hazard's career in his three seasons at the Bernabéu has been a sequence of penalties and starts in false that they have taken him out of the lane and have turned him into an irrelevant footballer on the pitch.

In the last five games he has not even appeared and since February he has barely played 45 minutes in four periods.

Carlo Ancelotti has insisted in recent weeks that the Belgian was fine and that his lack of prominence was not due to physical problems, however, the chapter on his ankle was never closed and now he is going through the operating room

fall in two acts

His football life began to twist on November 26, 2019 at the Bernabéu against PSG, when he received a strong impact from Meunier in the right ankle, and he twisted completely on February 22, 2020 in the Levante field, when hitting high-heeled.

His fall against the French team occurred when he was already beginning to show his football after a difficult start to the campaign due to the obvious lack of physical shape with which he joined Valdebebas at the turn of the summer.

That night, in Chamartín, he ended up with a microcrack.

He remained 82 days off and, upon his return to the fields, he only endured two incomplete matches.

In the second, against the Granota team, he suffered another injury in the same area, which pushed him into the operating room.

There they placed the osteosynthesis plate on the right fibula that will now be removed.

Since those two episodes, Hazard never looked like Hazard.

In fact, he hardly ever got close.

In 65 games he adds the starving figure of six goals and 10 assists, and only the bet of his coaches, especially Zidane, to recover him have given him more minutes than his game invited.

The French coach did not miss the opportunity to put him into orbit in each of his returns, with no result.

Far was that Hazard from Chelsea, who in 352 duels amassed 110 goals, 92 assists and an incident on the pitch that placed him on the rung immediately after the elite of Cristiano and Messi.

Madrid made him the most expensive signing in its history (115 million), but the Belgian was soon trapped in the infirmary.

Ancelotti, unlike Zizou, tried it with him, but he has not insisted more than necessary, especially since Vinicius exploded down his left wing.

Months ago, the Italian made it clear that this position belonged to the Brazilian, so the Belgian, whenever he has shared the field with him, has had to look for lentils in other areas, such as the midfielder or the right.

Now, with his new visit to the operating room, he is looking for a new attempt, perhaps the last, to rehabilitate himself as a footballer.

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