At 5:00 a.m. Beijing time on March 19, the Swiss grasshopper officially confirmed that 29-year-old international defender Li Lei had a right adductor injury and was expected to recover for 4 weeks and will miss the last 2 games of the round of 12.
In order not to distract Wu Lei, Li Xiaopeng could not recruit him, but chose to let him continue to stay in espanyol and train hard to win playing time. Guo Tianyu, who was loaned to the Portuguese Premier League to play for Vizzella, just reported in the past, so he did not enter the big list. Li Lei became the only player in the national football squad to stay abroad. As a result, I did not expect that even Li Lei, the only player who stayed in foreign countries, would now miss the final match against Saudi Arabia and Oman in the round of 12.
What is heart-wrenching is that this is the third injury in just 2 months after Li Lei joined the Swiss Grasshopper. Li Lei has suffered a severe injury to a torn cruciate ligament in his left knee, coupled with some minor injuries intermittently in recent years, so that his career has never been able to play the expected effect. Now that he is close to 30 years old, he has not yet established himself in the Swiss grasshopper, only 1 start in 8 games, only playing 151 minutes in total, and now he has various injuries, Li Lei's road to stay in the Ocean is worrying.
On the last international matchday, Li Lei was already absent due to injury, missing matches against Japan and Vietnam. Now, once again, he is out of the squad due to injury. In this 2022 World Cup qualifier, including 18 matches including the top 40 and the top 12, Li Lei only got the opportunity to play in the two legs of the top 40 against the Maldives, the other 6 round of 40 matches 0 appearances, and the 10 games of the 12 round of 12 were also 0 appearances.
Of course, Li Lei's absence due to injury is not a big problem for Li Xiaopeng's arrangement at left-back, because Gao Zhunyi, Wang Shenchao, Zheng Zheng and even Liu Yang can play this position.