In the early morning of January 5, Beijing time, the third round of the Spanish Copa del Rey began, espanyol challenged the La Liga team Ponferradina away, played 1-1 in regular time, overtime did not rewrite the score, through penalties, the penalty score was 3-1, and finally the Spaniard defeated the opponent with an aggregate score of 4-2, thus achieving a 3-consecutive kill against Pomferradina, and last season La Liga has doubled the opponent.
In this match, espanyol's number one hero is goalkeeper Diego López, who saved two penalties in the penalty shootout to ensure that Espanyol advances to the fourth round of the Copa del Rey. The much-publicized Wu Lei completely fell out of favor, even the Copa del Rey game did not have the opportunity to start, he came off the bench in the 86th minute of the game, when the Spaniard led 1-0, Wu Lei came off the bench was not lucky, as soon as he played, he was eliminated, resulting in extra time and penalties.
Espanyol coach Vicente Moreno used a large number of main players, with Puado, De Thomas, Morón and others leading the starting 11. At the beginning of the game, espanyol quickly played the advantage of the lineup, just 3 minutes into the opening, Espanyol defender Cabrera completed the steal in midfield, and then launched a counterattack, De Thomas helped Pedrosa into the box after receiving the ball in front of the box to complete the push to break the goal, the Spaniard led 1-0.
After taking the lead, the Spaniards failed to extend the score, and Ponferradina gradually began to attack the Spaniards. In the 86th minute of the game, Wu Lei came on as a substitute and replaced Puado. In the 87th minute of the match, Espanyol defender Serch Gomez brought down Yuri in the penalty area, the referee awarded a penalty, Yuri himself took the penalty shot, espanyol was tied 1-1 by the opponent and dragged into extra time.
Wu Lei performed well in extra time, but did not have the opportunity to score, two shots were fruitless, and 11 passes created excellent offensive opportunities, but were wasted by Carreras. In the penalty shootout process, Wu Lei did not have the opportunity to play the penalty, Ponferradina scored the first goal, conceded 3 penalties in a row, the Spaniard hit all three penalties in the first three, and successfully won 3-1, eliminating the opponent 4-2 on aggregate.
After winning this campaign, Espanyol achieved a double-line explosion in the Copa del Rey and La Liga, the two major competitions hit the best results in three years, and are expected to repeat the 2018/19 La Liga 7th and Copa del Rey top-8 results, this season La Liga has won 7 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses, ranking 11th in La Liga with 26 points, and only 4 points away from the seventh-placed Real Sociedad.
According to the order of appearances of espanyol forwards, Wu Lei has become the penultimate 2nd striker, The order of appearance of Di Mata, Morón, De Thomas, Puado and others is in front of Wu Lei, only Badillo's order of appearance is behind Wu Lei, he was completely abandoned by the Spaniards, reduced to the penultimate first striker, only 3 appearances this season, Wu Lei has played 14 games in double line this season. According to such a situation, Wu Lei can consider a transfer to avoid being unable to play in Espanyol for a long time, and has been unable to play in La Liga for 4 consecutive rounds.