In the early morning of January 15, Beijing time, the quarter-finals of the Spanish King's Cup continued, and the Spaniard challenged Mallorca.
Both teams are promotion horses in La Liga, and last season's two-legged league match, Espanyol had the advantage of 1 win and 1 draw, but this season's league, Mallorca beat Espanyol 1-0 at home.
Mallorca's recent form has been average, with 3 wins in the last 10 games, but both have been in the Copa del Rey, with Espanyol winning 5, drawing 1 and losing 4 of their last 10 games.
In the league table, Mallorca is 15th with 4 wins, 8 draws and 8 losses, and Espanyol is 6 points ahead of Mallorca and is temporarily 12th.
An hour before the match, espanyol announced the starting line-up for the match, namely Diego López, Oscar Hill, Cabrera, Sersi Gomez, Pedrosa, Dadel, Alex Vidal, Cady Barré, Puado, De Thomas and Di Mata. Wu Lei continued to stand by on the bench.
In the last round of the Copa del Rey, Wu Lei also came off the bench in the 86th minute and played overtime, but in the league, Wu Lei has not been able to play for 5 consecutive games.
After the opening, the Spaniard's attack was quite skilled, and Vidal's shot knocked on the mountain.
Kubo's breakthrough forced Pedrosa to be given a yellow card.
In the 33rd minute, Mallorca won a free kick in front of the field, Kubo Kenei took the penalty, and the Spaniard sent de Thomas, Di Mata and Pedrosa to the human wall.
The Spaniards' defenders looked a little nervous, and they knew What Kubo was capable of.
Sure enough, Kubo Kenei used the full moon curved knife to hit a wonderful world wave, even though López had used his full strength, he still could not touch the ball, and the ball hung straight into the net.
Mallorca players chased After Kubo Kenei and celebrated the goal around him, Mallorca took a 1-0 lead.
Away from home, 1-0 behind, the situation for espanyol is not good.
In addition, there was a news about Wu Lei before the game, the Spaniard and the team reporter Biya said that Wu Lei's current situation is the worst after coming to Espanyol, he has lost the trust of head coach Moreno, more often, Wu Lei not only can not get playing time, even the opportunity to warm up, Moreno does not give!
Biya believes that if Wu Lei chooses to transfer in the winter window, he is not surprised.