Updated:01/19/2022 14:54h
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Almost five months after wearing the Real Madrid shirt for the last time, in Vitoria against Alavés, Gareth Bale returns to a list of summoned of the white team. Ancelotti revealed it in the press conference prior to the duel against Elche in the Round of 16: «Bale is fine. He has not come with us to Arabia, but he will be in the squad for tomorrow. And every player who is in the call has the possibility to play from the beginning, during the game or they may not play, but he is ready to play.
The Welshman, along with Hazard, monopolized all the protagonism of the appearance of the Italian. They started the first two league games as starters, in August.
In January, they are residual footballers, although Ancelotti hopes that the trend will change: «There is nothing strange that has happened between Hazard o Bale and me. The explanation is simple. There is competition and the coach, which is me, each game chooses the best ones to win the games, fair or not. This is what happens in all the big clubs. There is competition because there are many good players, and it can happen that even if you are very good you are not going to play. You talk about Hazard and Bale, but I can tell you about Nacho, Marcelo, Isco, Jovic, Ceballos, all of them with great quality, but the same thing happens to them as to Bale and Hazard. Only the first part of the season has passed and they have not been able to help much, but hopefully this second part can be better.
It is true that they are not twin cases. Bale He has been injured or in pain for most of these five months, and Hazard already seems to have completely forgotten the odyssey of physical problems in his first two seasons with white, but when he has minutes he is not even a shadow of the footballer he was, which has generated a wave of rumors about a possible departure in January: «I don’t have to advise Hazard at all because he has experience and character to choose the best for him. What I can tell you is that he is still a Madrid player, he is focused on the team and we have nothing else to think about.
Ancelotti was surprised when asked if Hazard He was thinking about having another operation on the plate in his ankle, something the Italian denied, and praised the professionalism of the entire squad: «The management is not complicated because the players are very serious and professional. I don’t have any problems with any of them and I’m not going to have any, because their professionalism is very high. This squad is capable, by character and personality, of having a good and positive atmosphere.”
Apart from Bale’s discharge against Elche, the other great novelty on the list will be the absence of Courteous, who is indisposed and will not be on the summoned list.
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