La Liga to the 24th round, Catalonia ushered in an important match, two teams from Catalonia Barca and Espanyol again direct dialogue, the two teams of this round of dialogue match time was scheduled to February 14 at 4:00 a.m. Beijing time, Espanyol as the home team, Barca as a visiting team. The two teams have been in big shape lately, with Barca just winning two straight and rising to 5th in the standings, with a win in this round that will push Atletico into the top four of the table.
Espanyol's recent avalanche of form has slipped, starting with a 2-1 loss to Elche in the 20th round until the latest La Liga match 1-2 loss to Athletic Bilbao, suffering a five-game winless trough, including a 1-1 defeat in the Copa del Rey and a 1-8 final in La Liga. The standings show that espanyol has slipped from the top ten to 13th place, and currently has 27 points in 23 La Liga games, straight to the relegation zone, although 8 points more than Cadiz in the relegation zone, but only 4 points away from Mallorca, who is 17th in the table, and Mallorca has one less game for Espanyol.
What is more worrying is that the Spaniards are afraid of 5 consecutive defeats and coach changes, and have recently lost two consecutive games, successively 1-4 Real Betis, 1-2 Athletic Bilbao, followed by 3 consecutive games against the top teams in La Liga, successively playing Barca, Sevilla, Villarreal, the probability of 5 consecutive defeats is very high, if 5 consecutive defeats, Espanyol is likely to be forced by the relegation zone team to close the points, at any time facing the risk of re-entry into the relegation zone, Espanyol coach Vicente Moreno will be responsible for the results, I am afraid that I will be dropped out of class directly because of 5 consecutive defeats.
Before the match of PK Barca, Chen Yansheng, president and owner of espanyol club, spoke out, and he hoped that the team would beat Barca and show the state of the previous upset defeat of Real Madrid. Feeling the pressure of performance, Espanyol coach Vicente Moreno seems to have begun to take the initiative to change, began to choose changes in the squad system, trying to change the state of the recent avalanche, Wu Lei was lucky to be trusted by Moreno again, in the last round of 1-2 Athletic Bilbao, Wu Lei turned over to end 7 consecutive La Liga games unable to play embarrassing, came on as a substitute again, and showed the role of the odd soldier, active performance, almost assisted Moron's goal.
Against Barca, Wu Lei also has an excellent resume, he came off the bench on January 5, 2020 to penetrate the Barca goal, helping the Spaniards to draw 2-2 with Barca in La Liga; in the first leg of this season, Wu Lei came off the bench and once again caused barca a huge problem, the 83rd minute of the game created a great opportunity, but unfortunately Di Mata's close-range header was strangely out of bounds, and finally the Spaniard lost 0-1 to Barca in the game.
Not surprisingly, Wu Lei will once again play the role of an offensive surprise and sharp knife on the bench, but the Spaniard is still difficult to win over Barca, and recently set an embarrassing record of 13 years of league defeat against Barca, the last time he beat Barca in La Liga was in February 2009, when he beat Barca 2-1 away from home, and the last time he beat Barca at home was in January 2007, when he beat Barca 3-1 at home.