Sheer ‘mortals’ have to set aside huge sums of money to watch El Clásico. Eden Hazard regularly watches the biggest game of Spanish football for free. And from the best possible seats. He neither enters the pitch, nor contributes, nor pays a ticket.All as a consequence of the fact that at the last five matches between Real and Barcelona so far, since he moved from Chelsea in the summer of 2019, he was an unused substitute. As things are at the moment, the same will happen on Sunday night, when Carlo Ancelotti’s team faces the Catalans.Steady Los Blancos and rising Barca – the viewership should be optimistic ahead of El ClasicoAfter arriving from England, Hazard suffered numerous injuries, he missed the derby matches in the 2019/20 season due to a broken heel bone, followed by problems with the fibula. He was a spectator at both encounters in the next campaign, because muscle injuries prevented him from helping his teammates, while in October 2021, when the Royal Club won at the Nou Camp, the Belgian sat out the whole match in the substitute’s bench. These are the five league clashes that took place without a footballer that was paid 111 million USD. And there is also the Copa del Rey semifinal match played in Riyadh.Sun 23:00: (2.30) Real Madrid (3.40) Barcelona (3.10)Chances are that Eden Hazard will not play in the 29th round of La Liga either. Although, unlike the previous El Clásico, he is healthy. The reason is the fact that the last time he was on the pitch was a month ago, with the fact that he then spent only five minutes on the turf, in the final minutes of the match against Alaves. Since then, he has been a reserve against Rayo Vallecano, Sociedad and Mallorca in La Liga, and in the Champions League rematch against Paris Saint-Germain. Not one second of playing time.Even the fact that the top scorer of the team, Karim Benzema, is out for El Clasico due to injury – it will hardly open the space for Hazard, considering that in matches when the Frenchman did not play the place of the “false nine” was covered by Marco Asensio.
