Real Madrid announced in an official statement today, Friday, that its 31-year-old Belgian star, Eden Hazard, underwent surgery in the right leg, after which he will be absent for several weeks.
And a statement from the royal team read: “Our player, Eden Hazard, will undergo surgery in the next few days, to remove the plate of fixing the two ends of the bone in the fibula bone of his right leg.”
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According to the Spanish newspaper, Mundo Deportivo, the Belgian winger is expected to miss the royal for a period of up to 5 weeks. The newspaper pointed out that Hazard underwent surgery in 2017 due to a fibula fracture, and he also underwent another surgery for the same matter in March 2020.