La Liga promotions to Mars Espanyol completed the 2021 finale last night Beijing time, which is the 19th round of La Liga, against Valencia. After 90 minutes of competition, Espanyol reversed 2-1 while killing the big nemesis Valencia, the team's last two wins against Espanyol, the last 12 matches against 8 victories over Espanyol, so this game Espanyol is considered to have completed the battle of revenge.
Manager Vicente Moreno has created a stable starting 11-man system for Espanyol, only to fine-tune in individual positions, with De Thomas, Embarba and Morón partnering for the trident, Melamede, Dadel and Barre as the three midfielders, Pedrosa, Cabrera, Ceci 0 Gomez and Alex Vidal forming a four-back, and goalkeeper Diego López.
Due to the away game, espanyol continued the recent away form, the opening stage was very sluggish, in the 9th minute of the game, Valencia almost scored, Elder Costa crossed from the right and Douro's header from inside the box hit the upright. Espanyol did not complete a threatening shot until the second half, but the form was still slow, Valencia took the lead in seizing the opportunity, in the 51st minute of the game, Eld Costa crossed from the left, Aldrette jumped high to head the goal, Valencia 1-0 Espanyol.
In the 82nd minute of the game, the Spaniards opened the reversal and kill mode, first by the substitute Carreras inserted a single knife, into the box to create a foul for Douro, the referee showed him a yellow card, let him two yellow and one red was sent off, while giving espanyol a penalty opportunity, De Thomas took the penalty and the score became 1-1.
In the 88th minute of the match, substitute Puado inserted himself into the penalty area, and Carreras found Puado with a precise cross from the right, who scored with a header and the Spaniard successfully reversed Valencia 2-1.
In the whole game, espanyol had 58% of the ball, 15-11 with Valencia's shot on goal, 4-1 on target, and finally won 2-1, struggling to get 3 points, ranking 9th in La Liga with 7 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses and 26 points. Winning away from home, Espanyol put an end to two humiliating records, the first and most recent 18 consecutive La Liga away winless records, and the second, the last 14 years of away wins against Valencia, the previous 13 away games without a winless game, the last time away to Valencia was in October 2007, when it was also a 2-1 score.
Wu Lei continued to sit on the bench in this game, although witnessed the Spaniards 10 years of grandeur, the team got the highest score in the past 10 and a half years, 26 points, but Wu Lei personally is not optimistic, he has entered the list of 4 consecutive rounds of La Liga but can not appear, completely out of favor, and there is a bad situation of 0 goals in the league in 2021, 32 games in all competitions only scored 2 goals in the Copa del Rey, this season played 12 La Liga games averaged 24 minutes, 0 goals and 0 assists. From the perspective of the manager's employment strategy, Wu Lei basically has no chance to turn over, and the transfer will be a real problem that Wu Lei must face, and the long-term inability to play the game has no meaning to him!