Three goals of Diogo Jota finish with the options of the team of Abelardo, victim again of his defensive errors (4-0).
David Lpez, Ferreyra and Naldo, after the last goal of Wolverhampton.
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4-0 in Molineux.
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RCD Espanyol fell with a crash on his visit to Wolverhampton in the first leg of the 16th of the Europa League, the victim of a triplet of Diogo Jota. The psima second part of Abelardo's team, plagued with errors in the vicinity of his arc, was taken advantage of by the team of Nuno Esprito Santo, who was able to redeem himself from his recent bad results in the Premier League.
Diogo Jota, three times, and Ruben Neves once again overcame very lazy, too lazy, defending Espanyol. In the 4-0, for example, Jota was jogging diagonally towards the edge of the area, without being barely disturbed, to shoot at pleasure. And, in the first and third goal, the Vctor Snchez and Vctor Gmez brands only touched the ball to help Diogo Jota sing their goals.
This 4-0 will hurt a Espanyol who already knows that he would not prioritize European competition, since his fight is in LaLiga, where he occupies the last position. But, with many rotations and especially a passive attitude, the blue and white team takes a moral blow.
Go straight to the goal
Beyond Andrs Prieto, who could not do much more, the best and only visitor player who could go out with his head high was Wu Lei. Precisely with his head, the Chinese had the best chances of a Espanyol that went from more to less until it was sunk.
Already in the first quarter of an hour, with the internships of the forced Adama Traor, the Wolves found it going straight to the arch on the right wing. But it was Moutinho who centered for Ral Jimnez to comb and Diogo Jota, attentive, flew to, with the help of Vctor Snchez, inaugurate the score.
Half an hour later came the clearest chance of Espanyol, in a gift from Rui Patrcio that Ferreyra didn't take advantage of. After a bad clearance, the blue and white striker failed to overcome a goalkeeper with his back, to correct his previous error with a good hand.
'Hat-trick' and sentence
That action hurt Espanyol, but more than 2-0 in the 55th minute, after Wu Lei touched the draw. Ruben Neves took advantage of a bad rejection 'parakeet' to Adama center to control with the chest and shoot, despite the distance, Andrs Prieto. Unstoppable.
And after another warning, with wet powder from Wu Lei, came the third. Another goal of beautiful invoice for the Wolves, second of Diogo Jota, that culminates a braided play with an oriented control and a shot with the right hand that also stumbled in Vctor Gmez.
But he still had to celebrate his hat-trick. I received in the left band, I drew a diagonal without anyone going out of the way or bothering him, and chut at ease from outside the area to almost sentence the tie.
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