On the tenth day of the Chinese New Year, Chen Yansheng was interviewed by the Espanyol once a week for the club, as is customary, and he was satisfied with the team's overall performance this season. After four days, the Spaniard will face the challenge of Barca at home, and Chen Yansheng replied confidently: "If we can beat Real Madrid, we can let Barca swallow the defeat." ”
This is already the sixth year that Chinese boss Chen Yansheng has joined the spaniard, during which the team has also experienced a period of underestimation, and even fell to the La Liga at one point, but after the ups and downs, the Spaniard is still standing on the stage of La Liga, and the relegation situation is quite bright, which makes Chen Yansheng satisfied with the status quo. More importantly, the financial crisis of Boss Chen has been resolved with the easing of the epidemic, and now the club's operation is quite stable, and the team is trying to become the middle team in La Liga.
When asked about the next game against Barca, Chen Yansheng did not hide his trust in the team, he said: "Playing against such a team with rich roots and top players will bring us great difficulties, but our goal is to defeat such opponents and strive to become a team like them." We beat the equally powerful Real Madrid at home by a score of 2-1 this season, so why can't we replicate this victory? "His resolute attitude must have also greatly encouraged the players.
However, for Boss Chen's statement, is it too confident? According to the data, in the past 16 games with Barca, the Spaniard has only won 4 draws and 12 losses, not to mention that there is not a single game of victory, and is frequently slaughtered by Barca. Take the home game, espanyol lost 4-0 in December 2018, lost 3-0 in April 2017, and was played by Barca in 2010 with a 1-5 score. The Spaniard hasn't beaten Barca in 14 years, only in the 2018 Copa del Rey, when espanyol relied on Melendo's goal to win 1-0.
What's more, espanyol have been in very poor form in recent matches, with the last five games difficult to win, and the Spaniards have not tasted victory after entering 2022. The last two games were first a 1-4 defeat to Real Betis, followed by a 1-2 away defeat by Biba, but Wu Lei finally ushered in the opportunity to come on as a substitute after 7 rounds, and his breakthrough in the game also created a yellow card for the opposing player, and the connection with Moron also almost brought 1 point to the team. It can be said that it is also possible to play the role of a strange soldier against Barca Wulei, after all, he has never drawn Barca here.
As a Chinese fan, although there is a skeptical attitude towards Chen Yansheng's bold words that he must win against Barca, the Spaniards are after all the home team of Chinese player Wu Lei, so they are also very much looking forward to Boss Chen being able to give Wu Lei more time to play while the team can also win. At present, Wu Lei is suffering from unprecedented difficulties in Espanyol, he is a brother of the national football team and an ace-level striker, and it is expected that in the match against Barca, Wu Lei can reproduce the myth of the parity with Barca, break the 1-year-long ball drought in his league, and once again prove to the Spaniards and Chinese fans that he is still a first-class forward in Asia who can compete with Son Xingyu.