The ordeal of injuries does not give Eden Hazard a truce. The Belgian forward suffered his umpteenth annoyance since he arrived at Real Madrid and his presence in the knockout stages of the Champions League against Atalanta is in doubt.
This time, Hazard has a muscle injury in the left anterior rectus and will be out of court for 3-4 weeks. In fact, the total balance of the Belgian with Real Madrid is 35 games played out of 79. Only against Granada, this season, he was available and the coach, Zinedine Zidane decided not to participate.
Although all point to his poor physical condition, there are others who predicted his constant injuries a long time ago. Jose Mourinho, after a Tottenham-Chelsea 2015 in which the Belgian received several violent tackles, warned what is currently happening.
“The boy is honest and physically strong, he resists blows but if he is not protected I think the day may come when we do not have Eden Hazard“Mou began by saying.
“I think people who love football in this country (England) must be in love with Eden Hazard. In view of how each game his rivals crush him and the referees do not protect him, the day may come when we cannot enjoy Hazard anymore. They are one, two, three, four, five, ten hard fouls every game … they kick him and more kicks …“added the Portuguese.
More than five years after that statement by Mourinho, time proved the coach right. Will the Belgian be paying in recent years for the hard bone and muscle wear of receiving so many blows during all the seasons in which he was “unprotected” at Chelsea?