In the 24th round of La Liga this season, Wu Lei's Spaniard is in 13th place, suffering a winless finish in the last five rounds. As one of only two players in China to stay in Europe's top league, it is not known how many games have not started or performed brightly.
De Thomas, the team's recent poor record, but the personal performance of frontal thigh De Thomas is very dazzling, he has successfully blasted 22 la Liga games this season, 13 goals and 3 assists, ranking second in the league top scorer list!
In the 24th round of La Liga, Espanyol sat at home to meet Barcelona, and in this important Catalan derby, De Thomas's personal performance attracted the attention of the audience, he assisted Dudel to score in the 40th minute, and then successfully scored in the 64th minute.
Despite the overall weakness of the Spaniards, he managed to help the team draw 2-2 with 1 goal and 1 assist. It is worth mentioning that Wu Lei did not appear in this city duel.
The 27-year-old De Thomas performed well enough in the whole game, facing this barca team that is not at the top, if his team is stronger and can have more shells delivered, he does have the strength to rely on his personal scoring ability to decide the outcome of this Catalan derby.
As the current Espanyol's forward thigh, De Thomas has full individual ability, scoring 13 goals and 3 assists in 22 games in La Liga this season, is the team's top scorer, the second scorer in the league after 17 goals, and the most goalscoring Spanish player this season.
In January 2020, espanyol signed De Thomas from Benfica for a transfer fee of €22.5 million. In the 20-21 season, De Thomas played in 37 La Liga matches to score 23 goals and three assists, winning the La Liga Golden Boot while helping the team to successfully promote as a league champion.
De Thomas's outstanding individual performances allowed him to finally get a call-up from the Spanish national team. On November 12, 2021, in the 9th round of The World Preliminary Round of Eurogroup B, Spain played Greece away. He made his debut for the Spanish national team and was last named for the Spanish national team in the U19 period.
In January 2019, Portuguese Super League giants Benfica signed De Tomas from Real Madrid for a transfer fee of 20 million euros. In the first half of the 19-20 season, he suffered 0 goals and 0 assists in 7 games in the Portuguese Premier League.
Therefore, at first, De Thomas came to Espanyol and was still suspicious, he came with a previous poor performance and the first value in the history of the team.
De Thomas's personal characteristics are different from those of the all-around striker, and despite his physical and technical ability, he is a pure shooter who is basically only active in the front, and his task on the field is to turn all the scoring opportunities he sees into goals.
Once this type of player has the opportunity to get the ball, he will almost only give priority to his own handling, and sometimes he will not give the ball to his teammates, which can be called a lone wolf on the football field, but this is actually the team's tactical arrangement.
How important is De Thomas to espanyol? He has scored 44.4 per cent of Espanyol's total goals this season, with puado, who scored just three goals, the second most goals scored in the league.
If Espanyol hadn't had this scoring master who could blast 13 goals and 3 assists in 22 games, he might have been able to fight for relegation a long time ago...