According to the official news of the national football team, Wu Lei, who plays for espanyol club, has successfully arrived in Tokyo, Japan, and participated in joint training after meeting with the whole team, fully preparing for the life and death battle of the top 12 match against Japan on January 27, when CCTV5 Sports Channel arranged live broadcast.
In the past two months, after Wu Lei returned to Espanyol from the national football team, he did not play much time in La Liga and the Copa del Rey, especially in La Liga, Wu Lei sat on the bench in the last 7 rounds of the league, did not play for a minute, and was completely abandoned by coach Moreno, and the outside world called on Wu Lei to transfer away from Espanyol in the winter window.
Now Wu Lei does not have much time to deal with individual transfers, and needs to fly directly to Japan to meet the national team and prepare for the upcoming round of 12. As the first star of the national football team, Wu Lei's performance in this World Preliminary Tournament is very outstanding, without Wu Lei's play, it is difficult for the national football team to reach the top 12, and may be eliminated early to the top 40 stage.
So far, Wu Lei has made 13 appearances for the national football team, including 7 round of 40 matches and 6 round of 12 matches, scoring 8 goals in the round of 40 and 4 goals in the first 6 rounds of the round of 12, all of which are the first scorers in the national football team. In addition to 12 goals, Wu Lei also has 3 assists, which is a barometer of the national football team's attack in the frontcourt.
With 12 goals in the World Preliminary Round, Wu Lei became the player with the most goals in the single World Preliminary Tournament of the national football team, and also scored 27 goals in the A-class match of the national team, equaling Su Maozhen, who ranked 5th in the list of top scorers in the history of the national football team, and each goal next was the first scorer in the history of the national football team.
Wu Lei's outstanding performance in the World Preliminary Round won the praise of the Western media "World Sports Newspaper". When Wu Lei left for Japan, the World Sports Newspaper published an article saying that Wu Lei was one of the great figures in Chinese football and would travel to Japan on January 27 to play against the Japanese men's football team, and then accompany the team to play the Vietnamese men's football team on February 1.
In the next match between the national football team and the Japanese team, Wu Lei can create 4 records as long as he breaks the goal, the first is to score the first goal in 2022 for the national football team, the second is to score the first goal of the new year, the third is to surpass Su Maozhen and enjoy the 5th place in the top scorer list in the history of the national football team, and the fourth is to refresh his goal record in the World Preliminary Tournament and the goal record of the single World Preliminary Tournament player of the national football team.
If nothing else, Wu Lei will continue to start the game, attacking the national football team in the front line and breaking the Goal of the Japanese team with all his might.