In the 19th round of the 2021/22 La Liga season, Espanyol won the 2-1 away victory over 10-man Valencia to win the 2021 finale. Carreras came off the bench to make points and deliver assists, De Thomas hit a penalty and Puado scored the winning goal from the head of the penalty area.
In this battle, Wu Lei sat on the bench for 90 minutes, Espanyol coach Vicente Moreno still did not give the Chinese forward time to play, Wu Lei continued to sit on the bench for 4 rounds of the league, it seems that the 30-year-old Chinese striker Wu Lei has fallen into a low point in his Spaniard's foreign career.
In this game, it is worth mentioning that the strange soldier Carreras helped espanyol to achieve a reversal victory, and after the 20-year-old winger Carreras came on as a substitute, he first burst into the box to help Espanyol equalize, and then near the end of the game, he sent a precise pick-and-roll assist Puado to score the winning goal, and Carreras is likely to become a competitor of Wu Lei in the future.
The Spaniards were very passive on the pitch some time ago and did not have a single shot on goal, and in the 9th minute, Douro grabbed a nod in front of the goal and hit the upright, and the Spaniard escaped the danger. Valencia drove in the corner in the 23rd minute and Vaz followed up with a long-range shot from outside.
In the 44th minute, Embarba and De Thomas were all saved in a short period of time. In the 51st minute, Costa picked out a cross from the left bottom line, Aldret quickly flew to the header and scored, Valencia took the lead to break the deadlock, 1-0!
Yi Bian fought again, and in the 71st minute of the second half, the Spaniard made personnel adjustments and made two consecutive substitutions, Di Mata and Oscar Gill appeared, at this time Wu Lei could still only sit on the bench. In the 73rd minute, Oscar Gill crossed and Puado fired a powerful right-footed shot from outside the penalty area, and the ball flew off the line slightly.
In the 83rd minute, Carreras was single-handedly tripped by Douro's foot, the referee made a penalty and also showed a second yellow card to send Douro off, de Thomas jumped to make the score 1-1. In the 88th minute, Carreras assisted Puado to score a winning goal, Carreras crossed the right into the box, and Puado in front of the goal flew a header to the top of the goal, and the Spaniards overtook Valencia 2-1.
The match ended with the Spaniard reversing the match with two goals in just five minutes, with espanyol winning 2-1 away to Valencia and the spaniard's first away win of the season. After this campaign, espanyol overtook Villarreal with 26 points and rose to 9th in the La Liga table.