Real Madrid Victims Of A Twitter And Website Hack, Announce Fake Injury

Real Madrid's official website and Twitter account were hacked on Tuesday morning an announced Rodrygo had suffered a fake injury.

The Spanish giants are preparing to take on Atalanta in the second leg of their Champions League last 16 tie this evening.

It is likely Rodrygo will play a role but a message appeared on the 'Los Blancos' Twitter feed claiming he'd be out with a thigh problem.

A tweet read: "Following tests carried out on our player Rodrygo by the Real Madrid Medical Services, he has been diagnosed with a muscular injury in the right thigh."

Marca report Rodrygo's father woke him up this morning when he saw the medical report and quickly contacted the club to see what had happened.

Both the tweet and website article have since been removed and it's been confirmed the injury is non-existent.

Rodrygo featured in Saturday's 2-1 win over Elche and helped set up Karim Benzema's late winner

The 20-year-old has played in 20 games for Madrid this campaign and recently returned from a two month injury lay-off.

Madrid currently lead Atalanta 1-0 on aggregate thanks to Ferland Mendy's strike in Bergamo.

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One man who will be missing for a number of weeks is Eden Hazard.

The Belgian could be out for 4-6 weeks after suffering a muscle injury in the right psoas.

Manager Zinedine Zidane told reporters: "They're things that I can't explain. I want to be positive and hope that it's not too much of a problem.

"Something's up, because he was never injured in his entire career (before joining Real) or there were very few injuries. It's something new.

"I can't really give any more of an explanation. We want to help him and hope he's back as soon as possible.

"We're going to try and figure out why it's happening (the club's injuries), but right now we can't explain it.

"We've spoken about things like the lack of pre-season, amount of games and the mental aspect."

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Topics: Rodrygo, Football, Real Madrid

Daniel Marland

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