At 01:30 Beijing time on November 1, the 12th round of La Liga, Wu Lei came off the bench and played 9 minutes, only 2 shots and 1 touch, and finally Espanyol was defeated by the bottom team Getafe 2-1.
Trailing 1-2, Espanyol Moreno replaced Wu Lei in the 89th minute, replacing Embarba, who missed a one-handed goal.
Wu Lei just played 1 minute, and then staged a good scene of rushing back to the defense at half-time, preventing Getafe from making a quick counterattack. At that time, the director also briefly gave Wu Lei a close-up.
However, in the remaining 8 minutes, Wu Lei did not have any sense of existence. The only time he was on camera was in the 97th minute, when Cady Barry carried the ball into the box at the edge of the penalty area, and Wu Lei completed the whistle touch. In the technical statistics, Wu Lei's header this time is a pass, not a goal, from Wu Lei's own chagrin expression should want to attack the goal, but in the end also helped the Spaniard to get a corner opportunity. It was just that there was no threat from the corner, the referee gave an extra minute in the 7 minutes of stoppage time, the Spaniard failed to rewrite the score, and Wu Lei only touched the ball once in the 9 minutes of the substitute appearance.
Wu Lei has made nine appearances in La Liga this season and has not yet scored his first goal of the season, 505 days after his last goal in La Liga. Espanyol coach Moreno did not give Wu Lei a chance, he put Wu Lei in the starting list in last week's match against Elche, but Wu Lei was replaced after half-time, he only completed 7 touches in 45 minutes, shooting, passing and successful scrambling and other 5 statistics were all zero. As a result, when facing Athletic Bilbao, Wu Lei was directly pressed to sit on the bench for 90 minutes. Facing Getafe in this round, the main striker De Thomas was suspended for a red card, Moreno put Di Mata in the position of a single arrow, and Wu Lei could still only be a substitute.