Ex-Chelsea star Hazard given rating of TWO by French newspaper as Real Madrid lose 3-0 at PSG and Di Maria gets a nine
ZINEDINE ZIDANE was slated in the French press for his flop as Real Madrid were humiliated 3-0 at Paris Saint-Germain.
L’Equipe is notoriously brutal with its player ratings and the £150million Belgian did not escape as he was handed a TWO out of ten.
Gareth Bale had a worldie lob ruled out for handball via a controversial VAR call and managed a four – just one short of his highest-performing team-mate Karim Benzema.
On the other side of the fence, Angel Di Maria‘s double saw him scoop an impressive nine, with ex-Everton star Idrissa Gueye also praised for his work in midfield.
In the BT Sport studio, Rio Ferdinand piled more misery on Hazard as he questioned the former Chelsea talisman’s attitude.
He said: “When you go to a new club, especially the size of Real Madrid, you have to earn the right to be the man who gets all the ball.
“He’s got to do something in the training games, in the actual games that he plays.
“I’m fearful for him that he’s gone there at the wrong time.
“This is a team that’s ageing, they’re not on their way up, they’ve not got much spark about them at the moment. That is going to affect him and reflect badly on him in the long term.”
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Peter Crouch echoed Ferdinand’s comments as he challenged Hazard to show why Real invested in him.
He added: “Hazard at Chelsea was one of the top five players in the world but watching him tonight he didn’t look it.
“At Chelsea he was the main man and everyone was giving him the ball from everywhere.
“He won’t get that at Madrid until he earns it.”
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Glenn Hoddle, meanwhile, thinks Hazard and Bale need to be more fluid in order to stretch defence.
He explained: “I’m surprised that the rotation wasn’t there between Hazard and Bale.
“Real usually have a free-flowing rotation of a front three but Hazard played out on the left, Bale played out on the right.
“They were pretty much playing in straight lines and that’s easier to defend against.”