Hazard: five Classics in white

Eden Hazard returned to stay without participating in a Classic. The Belgian, who was injured earlier this month in the Nations League semi-final against France, he has been working during these two long weeks with the intention of being able to have his first minutes in a Classic. It was the fifth chance that the Belgian had since his arrival in Madrid … and fifth game against Barcelona in which he was left without playing.

Hazard came as a relief to Cristiano’s departure a year after the Portuguese’s departure. He already warned: “I’m not like him.” And time has proved him right. After two years and three months, he has still not played a Classic. The other four previous ones have been lost due to other injuries: In 2019 he missed the two League Classics due to the fissure he suffered in his ankle against PSG. He was close to playing the Classic at the Bernabéu, but suffered a week before the match (defeat against Levante in Valdebebas). In the 2020-21 campaign, the Belgian suffered a muscle injury to his right leg earlier that season, although the area where the injury occurred was not transcended at the time. Hazard was out for 25 days and missed five games, including the Camp Nou Classic. The return match, held at the Alfredo Di Stéfano, was lost due to another muscle injury. The latter has worked hard to be available. He traveled to Barcelona, ​​but watched the match from the bench. It didn’t even jump to warm up. Ancelotti decided that Asensio should enter through Vinicius. The Balearic Islands had time to be one of the main protagonists of the second goal …

Time passes and there is no news from Hazard. That is the worst thing that can happen to a player who came to be the banner in the post-Christian stage, who has barely participated in nine of the 12 games that Madrid has played this season. None of them have finished. As Ancelotti puts it, Hazard is “tired of having these little problems.” The Italian refers to the number of injuries that prevent him from being normally.

Everything indicates that he will be available again for the match against Osasuna (Wednesday, 9:30 pm). He will return from scratch, but ahead he already knows that he has Vinicius, that he has earned ownership and continuity with his actions, already Asensio, which has the ok of Ancelotti. The game system imposed by the Italian coach (1-4-3-3), makes his presence in the starting XI even more difficult. It could go into a modification of the system, in an orderly 1-4-2-3-1, behind Benzema, and with Rodrygo and Vinicius on the wings. Who would be the sacrificed player in that regard? Ancelotti made it clear in Kiev last week. The CMK It is once again the BBC from its first stage: unquestionable. The results prove it: two games with Casemiro, Modric and Kroos in the starting line have resulted in two victories in two difficult outings (Kiev and Barcelona), seven goals in favor, for only one received, and the feeling that the help in defensive tasks of the two Brazilians they further solidify the white team. Definitely, Hazard has it complicated. Another Classic has been lost again. The fifth since he has been at Madrid …