Eden Hazard It has become one of the great headaches for Zinedine Zidane since your arrival Belgian crack, brand new signing Real Madrid, the KO season began with a muscle injury. He came back and took to start, but when he did and began to take a high level fell again by a kick from his countryman Thomas Meunier.
So Hazard in the process of evolution of his perimaleolar contusion injury in the right leg he suffered an incomplete external microfissure in said area. That is, the player was aiming to be off the pitch for two weeks and for two and a half months. The recovery period has come to an end. It is OK to return, but has not yet done so.
Zidane could summon him before Atlético on Saturday, Real Sociedad on Thursday or for this Sunday at El Sadar against Osasuna, but he has chosen to postpone his return due to the hardness of the crashes and with the aim of being at the maximum possible physical level for the knockout stages of the Champions League against Manchester City. (DC News: the anecdote of Zidane with Hazard after discarding him)
Hazard, as you can tell Central defense, he thinks he will be at 90% for the first leg (February 26 at the Santiago Bernabéu), but it is clear that for the return crash (on March 17 at Etihad Stadium) Yes, you can now pay 100% Zidane will bet on him as a starter in both games because a Hazard 90% is a jewel that can not pass up.