There were three minutes to go and Espanyol were heading for another defeat against
Barcelona when the Chinese striker Wu Lei appeared to bring new hope for a new decade, guiding his shot past Neto. Espanyol are still bottom, four points from safety and they still have not won at home this season but at the end of a proper derby on a noisy night in Cornellà it felt like they had.
As the ball hit the net, the fans hit the roof. The adrenaline flowed, bringing with it the belief that they can avoid relegation and joy that they had come back to equalise against their local rivals.