In a focus battle in the 23rd round of the La Liga that ended on February 1, Beijing time, Espanyol was reversed by 3 goals by Vallecano with a 2-goal lead at home, and the league was "double killed" by the opponent. For the first time this season, Espanyol have suffered three consecutive defeats in official matches (2 La Liga and 1 Copa del Rey).
In this match, the Spaniard had a fantastic start. Puado helped the team open the scoring in the 8th minute, while the team's ace scorer De Thomas scored his second goal for Espanyol in the 39th minute. However, the second half of the game was abrupt, and in the 48th minute Palasson helped Vallecano to recover a goal.
The most controversial scene occurred in the 79th minute of the game, when Vallecano won a free kick opportunity in front of the field, and espanyol's ace Embarba had a problem, he rushed to the sideline to change, but just then Vallecano took advantage of Nbarba's change of pants and the referee was still directing the Espanyol players to line the wall, the right side quickly opened the free kick, and finally the 20th Montreal left foot long-range shot hung in the net. In this way, Vallecano tied the score.
With one less man on the pitch at the time, Espanyol strongly protested. The players on both sides even had a fierce friction on the field, with Espanyol left-back Pedrosa receiving a yellow card, but the goal was ultimately judged to be valid. And the angry Espanyol coach is even more out of control of the anger of the water bottle to vent anger.
Perhaps it was precisely because of the imbalance of mentality of the whole team that in the end, espanyol scored a deadly goal again after 4 minutes and gave up 3 points. Unfortunately, Chinese player Wu Lei only came on as a substitute in the 81st minute, and he failed to save the team in just 10 minutes. It was also the first time in nearly 19 years that espanyol had suffered a reversal of a two+goal lead at home, last dating back 19 years, against Valencia in December 2001.
Espanyol, who once led the table, was also thrown away by Three points by Mallorca, and Almeria, who had one less game behind him, also scored the same points, and if Espanyol continues this decline, it may not be optimistic to achieve the goal of returning to La Liga.