The fourth round of the Spanish Copa del Rey began, with espanyol coming to the away game against Mallorca, and in this campaign, Japan's Messi Hisayo played well, scoring a wonderful free kick in the first half. After 90 minutes of bitter fighting, Espanyol lost 1-2 and was eliminated, Mallorca advanced to the quarter-finals, and after winning 1-0 in the league this season, he beat Espanyol 2-1 in the cup, double-killing the latter. Wu Lei appeared in 91 minutes, played very little time, and missed the equalizer in 97 minutes. Mallorca set 2 big records, the first, 2 consecutive wins against Espanyol for the first time in 11 years. Second, Kyodo scored the first free kick of Mallorca's career!
Considering that the two sides are on an equal footing, the Espanyol manager naturally let the main players appear, Wu Lei was forgotten, and the team No. 7 continued to watch the game on the bench. Despite the sluggish performances of Di Mata this season, he can still make his debut, and his forward partner is the team's ace Raul de Tomas, and another striker Puado is also out. A big plus for Espanyol is the return of the team's two main players, Dudel and Diego López, while returning to the main squad. In Mallorca, Jiu Jianying made his debut and he was the organizational core of the home team on the field.
The first goal of the match came in the 32nd minute, when Mallorca won a free kick opportunity outside the box, Jiu Jianying kicked a perfect arc, the free kick broke the goal, Diego López could not save, witnessed the team conceded the ball. Espanyol trailed 1-0 away from home, while Japan's Lionel Messi smiled as teammates congratulated him on completing his first Copa del Rey goal of the season and his second goal in all competitions. At the age of 20 years and 255 days, Jiu Jianying scored the first free kick goal of his club career, and he made a total of 12 attempts to finally get something.
In the 56th minute, the Mallorca goalkeeper made a mistake in the kick-off, Barre broke the ball, but unfortunately his shot was high on goal, missing the opportunity to equalize. Two minutes later, the Mallorca player crossed from the left and Amat wrapped up the shot in front of goal, thanks to Diego López who saved the ball. In the 60th minute, Mallorca took a corner kick into the box and the no. 9 striker Platz's header broke through the goal guarded by Diego López, making the score 2-0.
In the 67th minute, Puado successfully countered the offside, won a one-handed left-footed shot into the goal, the score became 1-2, and there was suspense on the field again, but around whether the ball was offside, the two sides had a dispute, and the referee was besieged. In the end, the referee decided that the goal was valid.
In the 91st minute, Wu Lei came on, but was powerless to change the game, in the 96th minute, Pedrosa left the field with a red card, in the 97th minute, the Spaniard crossed from the right, Wu Lei wrapped up in front of the goal, but unfortunately the shooting force was too small, the opponent goalkeeper resolved, missed the opportunity to help the team equalize. The Spaniards did not wait for a miracle and eventually lost 2-1.