Real Madrid team news ahead of Elche: Hazard, Modric, Rodrygo

Eden Hazard appears to be like set to characteristic for Actual Madrid for the primary time in over a month when Los Blancos face Elche on Wednesday night time.

Having come again from the Christmas mini-break in peak form, the Belgian worldwide has been capable of practice at 100% because the return to work on Sunday, with coach Zinedine Zidane confirming that the 29-year-old winger will play no less than “a couple of minutes” on the Estadio Martínez Valero.

“The concept is that he performs just a little,” mentioned the French coach, who has taken excessive warning with the Belgian worldwide’s return to play after a string of damage set-backs since his transfer to Madrid in the summertime of 2019.

Zidane not risking something with Hazard return

Following his newest right-thigh muscle damage sustained in opposition to Alavés on 28 November, the previous Chelsea man has been again coaching with the group since 16 December. Nonetheless, Zidane and his medical employees have to date been reluctant to thrust him again into motion. The Belgian star made the bench for the sport in opposition to Granada on 23 December however was not risked as Los Blancos went on to win 2-0.

Hazard — who has performed simply six video games this season, scoring two objectives in opposition to Inter Milan and Huesca — shall be itching to get again on the pitch and hopes are this can have been the final of his damage setbacks for no less than the foreseeable future. Since his arrival on the Bernabéu 18 months in the past, he has spent 291 days on the sidelines, lacking a complete of 46 video games.

Rodrigo out as Modric returns

The lack of Rodrygo attributable to a hamstring damage has opened up an area in Zidane’s beginning eleven, with Hazard, Asensio and Vinicius all battling for the broad spot up entrance. With Rodrygo the one participant unavailable, the French coach may have the uncommon luxurious of a virtually-full squad of gamers to select from in what has to date been an injury-laden season. 

Veteran midfielder Luka Modric comes again into the squad after he missed the final sport in opposition to Granada by means of damage and will begin in opposition to Elche as Madrid chase their sixth straight league victory and seventh straight in all competitions.