At 4:00 a.m. Beijing time on January 11, the 20th round of La Liga ushered in a closely watched match, Wu Lei's Espanyol home game against The La Liga side Elche. Elche's performance this season has been sluggish, with only 3 wins, 7 draws and 9 defeats in the previous 19 la Liga matches, ranking 18th in La Liga, and becoming a la croess team and trapped in the relegation zone. In the Copa del Rey match, Elche unexpectedly soared, beating Almeria 2-1 in the third round of the Copa del Rey to reach the fourth round, and the most recent La Liga game was a 0-0 draw with Granada.
Espanyol is in the middle of the league as a promoted horse, once reaching the top ten of the table, and is currently 7 wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats, ranking 11th in the table. The last 5 La Liga and Copa del Rey double-line matches have been eye-catching, with 4 wins and 1 loss, including 2 wins in the Copa del Rey and 2 wins and 1 loss in La Liga. The most recent Copa del Rey third-round match eliminated Pomferradina 4-2 on aggregate (regular 1-1, penalty 3-1) and the most recent La Liga defeat was Valencia 2-1.
Historical meeting results show that Elche is the bitter lord of Espanyol, the last 5 meetings, Espanyol 1 win, 2 draws and 2 losses, the last three consecutive times in La Liga did not win Elche, the first leg of this season played a 2-2 draw. However, this campaign is the home of Espanyol, as long as it is unbeaten, it can set a record of 5 years, 56 years of history, the record statistics, Espanyol has recently achieved 7 consecutive unbeaten la Liga home games, 6 wins and 1 draw, once won will set the team's longest La Liga home unbeaten record in 5 years, the last la Liga home unbeaten 8 consecutive games to date back to January 2017, when Espanyol La Liga home 8 consecutive unbeaten, 4 wins and 4 draws. Espanyol's home game against Elche is equally magical, with the last home defeat to Elche dating back to January 1966, when Espanyol lost 3-0 at home to Elche, and continuing to win this round will set a record of 66 years of unbeaten home games against Elche.
Before the match, espanyol officially confirmed that Puado won the team MVP in December 2021, and Puado will further compress Wu Lei's playing time. According to the tactical system of Espanyol coach Vicente Moreno, Wu Lei still has no chance to play in La Liga, his position is marginalized by Moreno, and he sits on the bench in 4 consecutive La Liga games, which seems to have nothing to do with Wu Lei's personal state, it is Vicente who is determined not to give Wu Lei a position, because he prefers to continue to trust Embarba, who has 0 goals in 20 games this season, and does not give Wu Lei a chance.
Combined with the recent 7 unbeaten home lineup configuration, espanyol's starting 11 in this campaign is easy to guess, the probability is composed of De Thomas, Puado, Nbarba, Dardell, Melamede, Barre, Pedrosa, Cabrera, Serhi Gomez, Alex Vidal, Diego López 11 people, Wu Lei is still the last substitute of the forward line, the order of appearance is behind Morón, Di Mata, Correras and others, if there is no injury, Wu Lei has a high probability of not being able to appear again, quite helpless.