ZIdane quotes the Belgian, who may have minutes to pick up his pace. Modric is there too, but not Kroos. Madrid, without margin of error against a Betis looking for Europe.
De new Hazard. Or finally Hazard. As you prefer. The Belgian, totemic signing of Madrid for about two years that have passed almost blank for the footballer signed from Chelsea in 2019, he was once again on the list of summoned Zidane for a match. He has not stepped on the grass since last March 13, just a quarter of an hour before him Elche, before facing a new break in his career as a Madrid player, a muscle injury that has kept him out for a long month, and that has forced him to miss the last five league games and the two Champions League qualifiers played so far by The whites.
The following measures Madrid with Chelsea, the club in which Hazard established himself as a world star, a level that in Madrid he has only been able to show with a dropper. An appointment in which the Belgian must be, if there is not one more misfortune in an almost endless list, and if his feelings are good in tonight’s duel against him Betis. Zidane’s idea is to give him a few minutes if the context of the game allows it.
We must not forget that there is not the thing for too many experiments in Madrid. The whites play hardly without a net in their fight to reconquer the League after the stumble of the Coliseum and the reliability demonstrated in recent dates by its direct rivals. Whites have the advantage of playing before Athletics Y Barça to try to put pressure, but with the disadvantage of that semifinal of Champions against Chelsea who will demand the best of a squad already squeezed by the calendar, the covid and injuries. There are five players still out, including a Kroos that the victory at Carranza has already been lost, and that the coach wants to pamper in the face of the continental duel. Repeat in the citation, and perhaps even in the initial eleven, a Antonio Blanco that presented in the Carranza credentials of rennet midfielder.
For the rest, no big news is expected. Defense is still conditioned by casualties (Ramos and Mendy), although the return of Carvajal gives some margin to ZZ, who will again pull Marcelo, one of his great classics.
However, the great doubt in Madrid is Luka Modric. The little Croatian violinist did enter the summons, but the Madrid coach will have to measure a lot the use he makes of his services after the back problems that forced him to rest in Cadiz. And it is that football is once again a short blanket for Madrid, demanded in the League but also in the Champions League, with the difference that the prize in Europe is only three games away and that of the Spanish tournament is six, and it does not depend exclusively of whites, who are behind those of Simeone and maybe of those of Koeman if they take advantage of their game postponed for the Cup final. The Champions League is entirely in the hands of the whites, provided that the frustrated adventure of the Super league does not translate into unexpected consequences for the 13-time European champion.
For him Betis, the appointment is presented as an opportunity to affirm your aspirations to play the next Europa League, fight in which he competes with Real Sociedad and Villarreal. Anything that is fishing in Di Stéfano can be gasoline for Manuel’s men Pellegrini, a coach with a past in Madrid who can turn the league almost definitively for the white club.
