Eden Hazard has expressed his delight at returning to competitive action for Real Madrid when Los Blancos drew 2-2 with Celta Vigo at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday.
The Belgium captain is however happy that his side failed to win the home game , but he is still confident that the Zinedine Zidane’s team will win titles this season.
Celta Vigo scored first through Fedor Smolov in the seventh minute, before Madrid stormed to a 2-1 lead with Toni Kroos’ 52nd minute strike and Sergio Ramos’ 65th minute goal from penalty kick. Santi Mina ensured the Oscar Garcia’s men smiled home with a point when he made it 2-2 in the 86th minute.
“I felt good, The first 10 minutes I was tired,but as the minutes went by I felt fine. I’m happy with my performance, but not with the
result,” Hazard who was replaced by Vinicius Junior in the 73rd minute in the game was quoted as saying by Marca.
“I hope we’ll improve in the next few games. When a team is winning 2-1 you try to see out ilthe match], but it wasn’t to be
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“There’s still a lot of games left and we’re going to fight it out until the end.”
The draw prevented Real Madrid from from extending their lead at the top of the Laliga table. They are now o 53 points, just a point ahead of Barcelona (52 points) who beat Getafe 2-1 at Camp Nou on Saturday.
Made are also not doing better than Barcelona in goal scoring this season. They have scored 46, which is 11 goals behind Barca’s 57.
“I don’t think [we’re lacking goals); we had chances and deserved to score more goals,” Hazard said.
“We’re working well and we’re going to win a lot of games together, it’s going to be good for us.”
