Roberto Martinez, coach of the ‘Red Devils’, once again has the Madrid attacker after being absent in the last three games.
The situation
Roberto Martínez, Belgian coach, gave the list of players summoned to play the four games they have next June belonging to the Nations League against the Netherlands (Netherlands derby at home, June 3, 8:45 p.m.) , Wales (June 11, 8:45 p.m.) and the double confrontation against Poland (June 8 and 14, both at 8:45 p.m.). The coach called up 32 players for the four clashes in which the presence of Real Madrid players Thibaut Courtois and Eden Hazard stands out. The madridista attacker thus returns to the national team after being absent in the last three games for the Red Devils . Eden was neither in the match against Wales belonging to the qualifying phase of the Qatar World Cup in November 2021, nor in the two friendly matches last March (against Northern Ireland and Burkina Faso), having undergone surgery to remove the plaque he had on his ankle since March 2020. The Belgian, who played the last 25 minutes of the clash between Real Madrid and Cádiz last Sunday, although it ended with a blow, had not done so since last February when he enjoyed a few minutes in the match that the whites played against Alavés.
The details
Since then he missed 16 games between the League and the Champions League until his return to Cadiz. This has been a season to forget for Hazard . And that he started in the best way, being a starter in the first league game of the campaign in Mendizorroza: he even assisted Benzema so that the Frenchman scored the first Real Madrid goal of the season. In the Cup he was the whites’ savior by scoring the second goal in Elche with just a few minutes left in the match . He remembered Hazard best: he dribbled past the goalkeeper and defined an empty goal. Now he has the match against Betis ahead of him, with which Madrid will close the league season and the Champions League final against Liverpool to continue gaining confidence… for next season, where Carlo Ancelotti has already indicated that he will continue to wear white .