With the end of the World Preliminary Round, the European leagues have reignited the flames of war. In a match in the 20th round of the Swiss Super League, grasshoppers welcomed the challenge of Zurich at home, and Li Lei, a Chinese player who returned from injury in this game, made his debut in Liuyang, but unfortunately he failed to help the team get a victory, and finally Grasshoppers lost 1-3 at home, suffering two consecutive defeats.
Grasshoppers are the traditional giants of the Swiss Premier League, winning a total of 27 league titles in history, as well as 19 Swiss Cup titles. However, in recent seasons, with the departure of core players, grasshoppers, like Premier League giants Arsenal, have fallen into a long period of sinking, and have not been involved in the championship for 8 years. As the façade of the Swiss Super League, grasshoppers are naturally eager to enhance the strength and attention of the team through various means, so they introduced Chinese player Li Lei, on the one hand, to strengthen the team's weak defense, on the other hand, it also brought super popularity to the club.
In this game, Li Lei played in the 77th minute of the second half, ushering in his debut after Liu Yang, before he had been in the recovery stage of recuperation, so the team did not arrange for him to play, but from the performance of the previous warm-up game, it can be seen that Li Lei's adaptation is good and has the potential of semi-main force. He delivered a perfect stat in just 13 minutes, contributing 1 interception and 2 steals, and succeeded in 4 of 5 confrontations, including two ground confrontations and two air confrontations.
In addition, Li Lei, as a full-back, successfully played 8 of the 11 passes, with a success rate of 73%, and also tried a long pass and cross in the game, but unfortunately failed to form a connection with his teammates. After the game, Li Lei scored 6.8 points, which was already the third highest score in the team because grasshoppers did not perform well in this game, and was the highest score among grasshoppers' five substitute players. You must know that this is Li Lei's first appearance, and such a performance definitely makes fans full of confidence in his future.
You know, Zurich is the leader of the Swiss Super League this season, and has now scored 46 points, and after this game, it is 23 points, temporarily in seventh place. Zurich has won the Swiss Super League in recent seasons, so they are regular visitors to Champions League and Europa League competitions. In the face of such a Swiss Super League giants, Li Lei's performance on the defensive end is already very amazing, and he is also in a happy mood to take a photo with the Chinese fans on the sidelines after the game, which is his milestone night. Many fans believe that Li Lei's stay in the Ocean is much brighter than Wu Lei, who is in Espanyol, and Wu Lei has now completely degenerated into a bench administrator.
In this campaign, the grasshoppers only had 45% of the ball and 8 shots on goal, while Zurich had 11 and the number of shots on target was 3-8, so it can be said that grasshoppers lost unjustly. In fact, the first goal of the game was the grasshoppers, in the 41st minute of the first half, Bolo broke through on the right side of the road and then his cross changed line, and Schmid, who arrived at the back of the point, easily scored a goal to rewrite the score to 1-0. However, in the 46th, 66th and 82nd minutes of the second half, Zurich scored three goals in a row to overtake the score, which was also a losing streak suffered by Grasshopper after losing 0-2 to Sion.