Real Madrid is one step closer to getting its money’s worth for Eden Hazard. The $113 million man is finally back in the squad after last playing on Aug. 7 in a Champions League defeat to Manchester City.
The Belgian’s tenure with Real Madrid has been marred with injuries to put it lightly. A broken fibula that required surgery saw Hazard sidelined for the majority of the 2019-20 campaign. The nightmare of a season for the Belgian saw him score one goal.
His hopes of a comeback season for the 2020-21 season didn’t exactly hit the ground running. Hazard was unfit to start the season and suffered a muscle tear in his right leg. He has missed all seven games of the new season so far.
With such a tragic backdrop casting its shadow over Hazard’s return, surely he must be taking the situation seriously, right?
Nope. Instead Hazard had a laugh in training by pretending to suffer an injury during warmups.
Love Eden Hazard sense of humour!! Here he is back training with Real Madrid pretending his injured again. pic.twitter.com/VEChdh5lCV
— Frank Khalid (@FrankKhalidUK) October 27, 2020
I swear Hazard is a normal teenager trapped in the body of a star soccer player. May I remind you that this is the same guy who plays Mario Kart on the phone before games and desperately tried to stop himself from eating too many buns during quarantine.
Eden Hazard playing Mario Kart before a match will never not be funny pic.twitter.com/xoeM7cZ4Ts
— Yahya (@CFCYahya) October 25, 2020
Eden Hazard is all of us during isolation pic.twitter.com/cbor8I4xGf
— B/R Football (@brfootball) April 13, 2020
Hazard traveled with Real Madrid to Germany for Tuesday’s Champions League clash with Borussia Mönchengladbach. Zinedine Zidane hinted at a Hazard appearance follow his team’s El Clásico victory over the weekend.
"If Hazard is with us it is because he is well and that is good news. We are all happy to see him with us," Zidane said on Monday.
"Tomorrow we will see how we are going to use him. It is very positive news for us.
"We know that the season is long and we are going to need everyone. It is true, I have always said it, because they are players who always play.
"It is true that we have had problems on the wing, but there are other players who can replace them and it will not give us problems."
If he doesn’t make an appearance in the match the next opportunity for him will come against newly promoted Huesca in LaLiga on Oct. 31.
