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Although Spaniards failed to score against Zaragoza on the road, narrowing the points gap to Almeria's 12, they have locked up their La Liga spot 4 rounds ahead of schedule with only 4 rounds left in the league by virtue of their head-to-head advantage. This not only continues the team's tradition of returning to La Liga immediately after 4 previous relegations, but also means that Wu Lei will continue to play in La Liga if he chooses to stay with the team. However, for Wu Lei, appearances were scarce in the Liga B campaign, and it is doubtful that he will make a breakthrough upon his return to La Liga.
This season, Wu Lei has played only 778 minutes in Liga B, contributing 2 goals and 2 assists. Of the 26 men who recorded appearances for the team, he ranked 19th in minutes played, comparable to Belgian rookie Di Mata. But Di Mata has only made 15 appearances, while Wu Lei has made 30, averaging half as much playing time as the 23-year-old striker's rival. Wu Lei also came on as a substitute for Di Matta in last night's crucial battle for promotion, and the Belgian shot-stopper, who only joined the Spaniards in the winter, has performed well and will most likely be bought out by the team in the summer.
In terms of offensive contribution, Wu Lei's performance is even more incomparable to the previous season. In fact, with 23 of his 30 appearances coming off the bench, Wu Lei has struggled to get enough time to fight for scoring opportunities. His offensive stats of 2 goals and 2 assists are far behind the team's golden boot, De Tomas, rivals Puado and Embarba, and even rookies Melamed and Dimata in terms of goals, and only better on the offensive end than Vargas, who has played even less time than he has.
With promotion to La Liga, the Spaniards will be able to earn at least more than 40 million euros in televised revenue, and with the trend towards regularization in La Liga in the new season, match day revenue can be restored as well, making it much less likely that the Spaniards will sell their top-performing mainstays such as De Tomas and Embarba.
Bringing the team to promotion means that team manager Moreno will, not surprisingly, have a high probability of staying in the team. Spaniards, as the highest budget in the history of the second division, the new season after the goal of the first division is at least relegation, and the parrot legion in La Liga is the traditional mid-table team, the plight of the successive high-paid poached coaches is difficult to reoccur.
Now in front of Wu Lei's predicament is obvious, the new season La Liga de Tomas, Puado, Embarque probability will still be the absolute main force on the offensive end, although Vargas is likely to be sold for cash, but Di Mata, Melamed, Melendo, Barre and other young people will continue to get Moreno's heavy use.
Although there are voices pointing out that the Spaniards due to their own strength positioning problems, in La Liga and La Liga B will adopt a different tactical approach to speed and running Wu Lei may be in the team's promotion to the first place to get more performance opportunities, but the harsh reality is that even more settled in a defensive counter-attack, Wu Lei is not Moreno's preferred choice.
Unless the Spaniards have a large number of injuries, or pre-season Wu Lei can have a better performance, Moreno is difficult to give him more time. Moreover, if the Chinese team entered the top 12, the second half of the Wu Lei still have to come back to Asia frequently to play the top 12, even if it is a tournament system, will directly affect his playing time in the Spaniards.
After this round, with the Spaniards confirmed promotion, manager Moreno may be a wide range of rotation to examine the status of the replacement players, leaving Wu Lei's playing time may increase. But for Wu Lei, earlier back to the country to prepare for the 40 strong match is also a big thing he needs to consider (now plan 39 rounds after the return to the country), after all, according to the national team during the training period of the front line position is almost completely occupied by the naturalized players, a long time not returned to the Wu Lei can completely occupy the position of the main striker is also in doubt. Each choice of different may change their destiny, I believe that in the experience of going abroad to stay in the ocean and stay in the team to fight in the West B two decisions brought about by the different situations, Wu Lei and his team will make a more accurate judgment.
