Eden Hazard’s situation seems to be getting more complicated week by week. If Carlo Ancelotti had promised a leading role behind Karim Benzema in preparation, the Brainois failed to shine during his appearances in this position and has not played since September 11, exactly a month, with the Merengues while KB9 has just returned from wound.
This sad observation is made by the AS newspaper: in the last four weeks, Eden Hazard has played 129 minutes … but all with the Red Devils against Wales and the Netherlands. He has not played a single minute with Real Madrid since starting against Mallorca in La Liga, his only start of the season. ‘Even Benzema’s injury didn’t give him a place in the team’, points out the Spanish daily. Hazard did not convince Ancelotti in this position and Rodrygo took over as interim. Even more worrying according to AS, “Eden was not even able to collect the crumbs following the changes during the game, minutes which were given to Mariano.”
Because Hazard has indeed lost an additional place in the hierarchy at Real Madrid: “Even Mariano passed him… A surprise overtaking”according to AS, both the Dominican, who arrived in 2018 at Real Madrid, has always been considered a third or even fourth knife.
A situation that is getting more complicated despite Ancelotti’s words
In all, it is therefore five consecutive meetings in which Eden Hazard remained on the bench without playing a single minute, when he had played at least ten minutes in four of the first six meetings of the season. An increasingly worrying situation just over a month before the start of the World Cup in Qatar.
The fine speeches of the start of the season with the new role promised to the captain of the Red Devils are therefore already a long way off. However, in front of the press, Carlo Ancelotti seems to continue to keep his confidence in Hazard. He even has him promised game time very quickly : “He’s fine, he’s training well. He’ll get his chance soon”, he said at a press conference on Monday. Perhaps even this week in the Champions League against Shakhtar Donetsk, Real Madrid being almost assured of qualification for the round of 16 (and first place in their group).
Hoping that this time, Eden Hazard can seize his chance and (finally) get back to Real Madrid. With 40 days to go before the start of the World Cup, it’s time…