In the 18th round of La Liga, Espanyol ushered in a tough battle, away to 14th place in the table of the old rival Celta, the game time is scheduled to be 4:00 a.m. Beijing time on December 18. Celta have scored 17 points with 4 wins, 5 draws and 8 losses this season, while espanyol have scored 23 points with 6 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses. Although Espanyol has a clear points advantage, the 0-win away record has made Espanyol more fierce in this campaign, and all six wins this season have come from home.
Celta are in a balanced home and away form, with 1 win, 4 draws and 1 loss in their last six La Liga matches, during which they are 3-3 with Barca and 1-1 with Villarreal, which is the hard bone of La Liga. On the deck, espanyol is actually inferior to Celta, the entire Celta team is worth 110 million euros, and the Espanyol team is worth 67.5 million euros.
The reason why Celta is espanyol's nemesis is that Espanyol and Celta's recent PK Celta has been born for 4 years, that is, the spectacle of five consecutive duels in the past 4 years, five consecutive matches have been 2-2, 1-1, 1-1, 1-1, 0-0, and the last match to be divided is back to the La Liga match in September 2017, when Espanyol beat Celta 2-1 at home.
Judging from the frequent draws in Celta in recent times, as well as the 5 consecutive draws in the history of the two sides, the Spaniards still have a high probability of playing a draw again. Before the game, Wu Lei was once again confirmed to attack with an injury, after the last game of the Copa del Rey, Espanyol coach Vicente Moreno believed that Wu Lei's toe was still injured, and said that Wu Lei's state did not reach 100%, but he himself was eager to play, and it was important to find the feeling of scoring.
This time with injuries, Wu Lei continued to impact 2 major spells, the first and one year league 0 goal curse, the last time to represent the Spaniards in the league to break the goal is back to December 2020, when the pass led the team to win the La Liga game 2-0; the second, a year and a half of La Liga 0 goal curse, the last time in La Liga to break the goal is back to June 2020, when the single knife helped the team win 2-0 La Liga matches.
The Spanish media "As" predicted the 11-man list of the Spaniards to start the match, detailed by: Embarba, Puado, de Thomas, Dadel, Barre, Herrera, Alex Bidart, Pedrosa, Cabrera, Serhi Gomez, Diego López. Wu Lei will come off the bench, most likely in the second half to replace Embarba, his state this season is worse than Wu Lei, the start of the game is still 0 goals, wasted more than 30 shots, began to anger espanyol fans, inside and outside the field has caused a lot of questions. If Embarba continues to be in a slump, Wu Lei will likely return to the starting line-up in the following games as long as he maintains the status of the goal scored in the last Copa del Rey.