Eden Hazard has become a matter of controversy between his club, Real Madrid, and his national team, Belgium. The player traveled to London to receive a second medical opinion on whether the ankle injury that has stopped him twice since arriving at Madrid is related to his recent muscle problems.
The white club is in favor of a conservative treatment that would allow the footballer to return to the pitch within a month and, therefore, play the final part of the season, in which the titles will presumably be played.
Belgian doctors, on the other hand, believe that a new surgery on the ankle would end the footballer's problems. Your recovery would be longer, but it would allow him to arrive in perfect condition to the Eurocup.
The player is now undecided, especially because Madrid is against the operating room. The idea of the Belgian, in case of surgery, is to remove the plate that was placed on him in March 2020. Since he reappeared, he has never felt comfortable with it, he has had to modify his footprint and the footballer thinks that this may be the origin of so many muscle problems. By avoiding a new ankle injury, it is causing them in other areas. This last injury has left him especially frustrated, because he had come back stronger than ever and has been seen in the infirmary again at the first change. The Belgian has not given a definitive answer, although at Real Madrid they assume that he will not have surgery, as advised by all the doctors consulted except those from the Belgian team.
Real Madrid is in favor of his reappearance in a month, play the remainder of the season and if the discomfort persists, take advantage of the summer to go under the knife. They still think that if you chain several games in a row you can forget about muscle problems without the need for surgery. Despite this, Hazard has the last word. The white club thinks about the most convenient thinking about the final stretch of the season, just as Belgium does before a European Championship in which they have high hopes. But what all parties are clear about is that they will accept, respect and support Hazard's decision. He is an exemplary player, who no one has a complaint about, and the decision he makes will be made thinking only of finding the best way to return to his best version and thus leave this ordeal of injuries behind.
Ten injuries
Hazard has suffered ten injuries since arriving at Madrid. If the coronavirus that also had him stopped is added, it reaches 330 days off. That has meant missing 51 games. His last injury, in the right psoas, occurred after the minutes he played against Elche, the first in a month and a half.