In a La Liga match in the early hours of this morning, Cadiz, who visited Camp Nou, won 1-0 against Barca with Lucas Perez's goal shortly after the start of the second half. Under the overall advantage that Barca's entire team is ten times that of Cádiz, Lucas Perez led the team to the first away victory over Barca in history, staging a good play of weak victory over strong, and Barca had no choice but to swallow two consecutive defeats.
Barca started the game with Depay instead of Aubameyang, but in the first half he and Ferran Torres were too impatient on the offensive end, and their cooperation with each other was not tacit, often too much of a single fight. Barca, who had been behind at the beginning of the second half, were replaced by Aubameyang, Traore and Luc De Jong, continuing to bomb high on the wing, but in exchange for only the improvement in the number of shots, the highest scoring goalkeeper Ledesma contributed 6 key saves to keep Barca's shots out again and again.
The 18-5 shooting counts of the two teams and Barca's huge offensive advantage of 75% possession did not result in a goal, but rather several counter-attacks by Cadiz, such as Perez missing a half-empty goal in the first half, such as Cádiz's substitute striker Alejo who forced a breakthrough on the right and crossed to Alex Fernandes in the middle of the box, whose shot was slightly offside.
In addition to scoring goals and a key pass, Lucas Perez's stats are also dismal. He lost 13 of his 21 passes and missed a great opportunity after only 32 touches.
But it's enough to score goals, and it's Barca who are playing against them. Perez is definitely a veritable Bassack star, and counting this goal, he has scored four goals against Barca in his career.
"Spanish Valdi" is also a giant killer
Barca fans will certainly not be unfamiliar with Lucas Perez. As early as the 2014-15 La Liga finale, this game Barca has won the title in advance, the victory or defeat is meaningless for the title, but this game has other significance, that is, Xavi's La Liga curtain call, not only that, this is also Aavino Camp curtain battle. Messi, Neymar and Xavi started, and Luis Enrique wanted to say goodbye to the fans of Xavi and camp Nou with a win.
In the first 59 minutes of the game, Messi gave Barca an unsurprising 2-0 lead, but only eight minutes later, Lucas Perez's left-footed burst from the corner set off the horn of the team's counter-attack, after which Diogo Salomão scored another goal to equalize, and finally the two sides drew 2-2, and Perez disrupted the closing game of Javino Camp.
The following 2015-16 season, Lucas Perez once again broke the Barca goal. The script is very similar to half a year ago, still away to Camp Nou Barca leading by two goals, and then Perez scored his first goal and assisted his teammates to equalize.
Two seasons later, in the 2017-18 season, Perez once again scored Barca's goal in La Liga, and Perez received a precise pass from teammate Borja Valle in the penalty area, and the ball did not stop pushing a dead corner.
Counting this game, Lucas has played against Barca a total of 11 times in his career, scoring a total of 4 goals and assisting 1 time, and Barca is also the second team in his career to score the most goals. Four breaks against barca goals are not easy for a non-big player, and you can feel the difficulty by looking at The number of goals Bale has scored just 2 goals against Barca in 15 games.
Because Perez can often score Barca goals, Barca especially wanted to bring in Perez during the winter break of the 2019-20 season, when the team's forward injuries were serious, and barca brought in Braisvert after Perez rejected Barca.
Perez is also reminiscent of Vardy, who often plays the role of "rich and poor" giant killer, Vardy has scored a total of 9 goals in 18 career games against Manchester City, 10 goals in 15 games against Liverpool, 8 goals in 15 games against Tottenham Hotspur and 10 goals in 14 games against Arsenal.
And Perez did not hesitate to let go, not only to break through the Barca city, but also against Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, he also scored two goals.
The two are the same age (Perez is one year younger), the same from the lower league, the big instrument late, the same height is not more than 1.8 meters tall and excellent speed ability of the center, the same play for non-big teams, so it is not surprising that the two are compared.
The bleak Arsenal years
Lucas Perez and Vardy are inextricably linked, and it's not just good to play against a big team.
In the 2015-16 season, Perez had a big explosion, scoring 17 goals in 36 La Liga matches, and seven consecutive goals also equaled the record of the team's famous bebeto, who personally wrote to Perez to encourage him to continue.
At that time, the same grassroots speed forward Vardy led Leicester City to victory in England to stage the Blue Fox miracle, and Lucas Perez, who had a similar career and style, was described by the media as "Vardy Spain".
In the summer of 2016, Arsenal struggled to pursue Vardy, but in the end he chose to stay with the Blue Foxes, so Arsenal brought in Perez. The value of 20 million euros is enough to see the value of Perez in the transfer market, knowing that when he returned to A Coruña from Athens side PAOK Thessaloniki a year ago, the transfer fee was only 1.5 million euros, and in just 12 months, the value of the body increased by 13 times.
After joining the Gunners, Perez is very happy, he knows the history of Arsenal very well, and he also appreciates what his compatriot Reyes has done here. His good English skills, coupled with the fact that the team had three Spanish compatriots at the time, Bellerin, Monreal and Cazorla, should have easily integrated into life and training in London.
However, Perez came with a dream, but he could not show his talent, he could not shake Olivier's main center position, coupled with his technique is not delicate and arsenal style is not in line with the Arsenal style, so he only got 11 Premier League appearances totaling 265 minutes in the whole season, which is just more than 3 games for the main players. Although there are also reasons for his ankle injury at the beginning of the season and the injury to his thigh muscles in the second half, even a healthy Perez cannot guarantee that he will be able to play every game.
The last straw that crushed the camel was Lacazette's joining in the summer of 2017, after a difficult season, and Lucas Perez once again felt that he was not valued, even respected.
'Lacazette signaled to the club that they wanted to wear the no. 9 shirt (which is Perez's shirt number) and the club executives agreed to Lacazette's request before asking for my opinion, they cheated on me and I was leaving.
So he parted ways with Arsenal, leaving only a few fond memories of hat-tricking basel in the Champions League.
In the summer of 2017, Lucas Perez returned to Lacco on loan for a season, and by the summer of 2018 the Gunners sold him to West Ham for 4.4 million euros. A year later, he moved to La Liga side Alaves for a transfer fee of €2.3 million.
Left Alaves because of the "Friendly Wife Gate"
His two seasons in Alaves were not stopped, and last season he split the dressing room into two factions because of his relationship with teammate Rodrigo Elie's wife, and coach Abelardo said that Perez did not respect himself nor his teammates, and directly abandoned Perez.
(Former AC Milan player Rodrigo Elie has two children with his wife)
So last summer Perez joined Elche on a free transfer, and was bought by Cádiz for 200,000 euros during the winter break to help the team relegate, and the 33-year-old veteran Perez only scored the only goal against Barca this morning in the second half, but it was worth a fortune, helping the team to score three points and temporarily escape the relegation zone by 2 points.
In an interview in 2015, Lucas Perez recalled how he felt when he played in Ukraine, saying that his last four months in Dynamo Kiev were the worst months of his life, and that he felt lonely and unfair away from his family in a place where "80 percent were poor and the remaining 20 percent were multimillionaires."
Just like Lucas Perez's career, most of the time his role has been a lone brave who breaks through the shackles of the bottom and shows people a positive side of struggle. He has undermined the unity of the Alaves team and has become a hero of the relegation team. (Supine Braces/Qiu Yixi)