Real Madrid’s forgotten man Eden Hazard could return to haunt Chelsea | Sid Lowe

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Forward has endured an injury nightmare after leaving Chelsea in 2019 but is fit to face his former club in the semi-final

With 13 minutes left at Valdebebas on Saturday night a man appeared who Chelsea fans will remember fondly and Real Madrid fans may struggle to remember at all. Forty-one days later, Eden Hazard finally returned. It wasn’t long and there wasn’t much – a swift run at the Betis defence which ended with a pass to Vinícius Júnior when he might have taken a shot himself, a fleeting glimpse of the player he once was – but it was something, the Belgian fit again in time to face his former club.

“He had spark, energy. He had no pain and the feelings are good,” Zinedine Zidane said and he was not the only one. The sports newspaper AS called his return a shaft of light. “You could tell that he’s in good shape,” Thibaut Courtois insisted after the game, a 0-0 draw that damaged Madrid’s chances of winning the league and suggested their minds are drawn more to the Champions League. “He has trained with us for two or three weeks and he looked very good,” the goalkeeper continued. “He will be very important for us from now until the end of the season.”

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/apr/27/eden-hazard-real-madrid-forgotten-man-chelsea-champions-league

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