![](\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Real-Madrid\u2019s-Hazard-reveals-his-idol-what-Conte-Sarri-have-in-common.jpg\")
<\/p>\nHazard scored his first goal for the Spanish giants, as Los Blancos stayed top of LaLiga.<\/p>\n
The former Chelsea star also teed up Luka Modric for the goal of the game just after the hour mark.<\/p>\n
But the home side let their opponents back into the contest when Darwin Machis converted from the spot after Alphonse Areola brought down Carlos Fernandez.<\/p>\n
Domingos Duarte set up a tense finale with his close-range finish 13 minutes from time, only for James Rodriguez to kill off the comeback to move Madrid four points clear at the top of La Liga.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am thrilled for Hazard, it was a well-deserved goal, he is working well and getting better every time,\u201d Carvajal told reporters after the match.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe coach told me to play left-back because of injuries, I did it a couple of times last season and that\u2019s what he wanted me to do, but the important thing is the three points.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t let this keep happening at 3-0 up at home, we need to correct that because it will cost us points.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing ahead and them not being able to equalise is not a sign of strength. We need to be more convincing.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow we go into the break league leaders, regardless of what is happening the rest of the weekend. We can start to focus on a difficult week away from home.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Real Madrid defender, Dani Carvajal has disclosed that he was \u2018thrilled\u2019 by teammate, Eden Hazard after the Belgium international scored his first La Liga goal for Zinedine Zidane\u2019s side in their 4-2 win over Granada on Saturday. Hazard scored his first goal for the Spanish giants, as Los Blancos stayed top of LaLiga. The former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,13379,5278],"class_list":["post-158014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-granada","tag-real-madrid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}