Casemiro and Hazard, positive for COVID-19

Bad news for him real Madrid. The club has confirmed that its players Eden Hazard and Casemiro have tested positive in the latest tests for coronavirus made in Valdebebas, before the visit of the meringues in Mestalla the match against Valencia (Sunday, 21:00) by LaLiga Santander.

In a statement on its website, Real Madrid confirmed that the Belgian and Brazilian “have given positive results in COVID-19 tests made yesterday Friday morning “They in turn explained that they are the only two members of the squad and the coaching staff to be infected:” All the other players and the coaching staff of the first team, as well as all the club employees who work directly with their, gave negative results in that same test carried out yesterday. Likewise, it is confirmed once again all, except Casemiro and Hazard, returned negative results in the antigen tests carried out this morning “, reads the statement.

After the positive, Casemiro and Hazard must comply with the corresponding isolation protocol of at least 14 days and will be low, in principle, by comparison with the Valencia and engage with their teams. If negative in two weeks, they may be under orders of Zinedine Zidane for the visit of the meringues at the Estadio de la Cerámica, on November 21, for the match against Villarreal for the tenth round of LaLiga Santander.

Madrid’s infirmary, full

Real Madrid will arrive at Mestalla with just enough. To the victims of Casemiro and Eden Hazard, those of Dani Carvajal, Álvaro Odriozola and Nacho, due to an injury, and Éder Militao, who is also confined to his positive for COVID-19. The good news for “Zizou” is that he will recover Martin Odegaard, who spent several days practicing normally under the orders of the French coach.

Casemiro is a very sensitive defeat for Real Madrid. The Brazilian is one of the players who contributes the most to Zidane’s approach and there isn’t a player in the merengue squad who can replace him, especially in his ball retrieval work. The Belgian, for his part, I was returning from an injury and barely worn twelve days completely healed. So far Hazard had played an important role in the Madrid forward, accompanied by Karim Benzemá and Marco Asensio. The good news is that Zidane has many options to replace it.