Hazard, down on gastroenteritis

Eden Hazard will not be in Los Cármenes. Carlo Ancelotti advanced in the press conference prior to the match against Granada that the Belgian international will not travel with the rest of the white expedition to the Nasrid city due to gastroenteritis. A new setback for a player punished by injuries since he arrived at Real Madrid two and a half years ago and who was having little prominence in recent games with Ancelotti. The white team takes up the competition tomorrow, Sunday (4:15 pm) against the team coached by Robert Moreno.

The Belgian comes from playing 63 minutes against Estonia in the first of his team’s two commitments in the international break. With the qualification for the World Cup mathematically tied, Roberto Martínez released him from the second commitment against Wales by Gareth Bale, who could not play that match due to injury.

Ancelotti had been insisting in his recent appearances that Hazard should follow the example of other players to persist in his daily work while awaiting his opportunity. “Hazard is like all players who do not play much. He is not happy. It would bother me if he was happy at this moment. He is trying to overcome this moment. Today he has gastroenteritis and is low for tomorrow. It is not COVID,” said the Italian before the positive for coronavirus that De Bruyne has given after returning from the concentration of Red Devils.

Although he started as a starter at the beginning of the season in the Italian coach’s attempt to implant a trident with the Belgian, Benzema and Bale, the great performance of Vinicius relegated him to the substitution. In the six Real Madrid games between the last two national team breaks, the Belgian only played 34 minutes. In the total count of the season he has only played 416 minutes spread over 11 games. His last start was on September 28, in the match of the second day of the Champions League against Sheriff Tiraspol.