The second round of the 2021/22 Copa del Rey came to an end, with Espanyol winning 2-1 at Athletic Christo with goals from Wu Lei and Gomez in the second half. In this game, Wu Lei finally broke his 342-day club goal drought, Wu Lei's last club goal had to be traced back to the game against Alaves in mid-June 2020, and the last 2 rounds of the league, Wu Lei has not played, this time the Copa del Rey faced the West C team, the head coach Hid most of the main players, so Wu Lei finally got the opportunity to start, and finally Wu Lei also proved himself with goals.
According to statistics, Wu Lei played a total of 58 minutes in this game, got 4 shooting opportunities, of which 2 shots were on target, in exchange for a goal, and the pass success rate was 86%. It can be said that Wu Lei, who has not won the opportunity to play in 2 consecutive games, can play such data is already very good. Just 6 minutes into the opening, Christo Athletic took advantage of the home advantage to score first, while the Espanyol, who were in a somewhat slow form, were unable to find their own offensive rhythm, although they had the advantage on the field, but failed to convert this advantage into a goal advantage, but were caught off guard by the opponent.
After the adjustment of the intermission, the state of the Espanyol team has improved greatly, only 1 minute after the opening of the second half, Wu Lei helped the team equalize, Molon received the ball from his teammates on the left side, all the way along the bottom line, and then knocked the ball across the middle of the road, followed by Wu Lei pad shot, the Spaniard changed the score to 1:1. In the 86th minute, espanyol countered the score, espanyol attacked along the right side, and then hoisted the ball into the box, Gomez got the ball and directly swept the goal, the opposing goalkeeper although judging the right direction, but still could not prevent the ball from flying into the net, and finally the score was fixed at 2:1.
In fact, in this game, Wu Lei had a chance to open twice, but unfortunately Wu Lei missed a single knife opportunity. At that time, 1 minute after Wu Lei scored, the Espanyol team made a comeback, the teammate sent a precise straight plug, Wu Lei quickly followed to form a single knife, but Wu Lei directly sent the ball into the arms of the opposing goalkeeper. For Wu Lei's ball, the head coach was very excited, he got up from his seat and rushed to the sidelines, and then spread his hands to express his dissatisfaction. Is it necessary to lose a single knife manager? We will not talk about this problem for a moment, but Wu Lei's foot in the door really needs to be promoted, and for the dissatisfaction of the manager, Wu Lei can only silently endure it first.