Patience finally ran out with Eden Hazard on Wednesday night. Not when he was taken off a minute from the end having had almost no impact on the biggest game of the season, but about five minutes later when cameras zoomed in on him laughing it up as Real Madrid crashed out.
'He can't stay a minute more at Real Madrid!' said the presenter of Spain's late night football show El Chiringuito. Marca and AS both gave him no mark in their ratings and one columnist said: 'Zidane stubbornly insisted on making him a starter, and he repaid him with a lamentable performance.