Friday, November 22, 2024, 10:58
Bidasoa Irun and Fraikin Granollers will play this Saturday (7:00 p.m., Teledeporte) one of the classics of state handball. It will be the thirtieth confrontation between these two teams on a Vallesan field within the Asobal League, although before its creation the rivalry began to be forged, then with a chocolate aroma, Elgorriaga-Cacaolat.
Granollers is third with thirteen points – they have only lost to Barça and Cuenca – and Bidasoa Irun aspires to catch up with them if they win. It would be the fourth consecutive season scoring at the Palau d’Esports de Granollers, with draws in the last two visits and victory in the 2021-2022 campaign.
Bidasoa Irun is coming off a great and decisive victory in the European League and Alex Mozas wants the team to “continue on that good wave. “We have little time to enjoy it, a lot of travel and we are going to face what is possibly the fittest team in the Asobal League, a team that is going to demand a lot from us.”
For the Madrid native, it is a “very important game to be hooked on to the top.” He regrets that “with 40 hours of travel in four days and barely being able to train, it is very difficult for the players to be at their best, but the important thing is going to be the mentality with which we face the game and I think it is going to be very good.” ».
The Bidasotarra coach warns that Granollers is “the team in the League that runs the most and best, the one that scores the most counterattack goals, even at the Barça level, and that demands a lot from you in terms of defensive withdrawal, not to fall behind any rebound, to anticipate a lot.
He would like it if “of the ten easy counterattack goals they score per game, we could reduce that number by half, for example, and also for us to have few turnovers. In all the games that we are winning, the same script is always repeated, which is very good defense, few losses and that way we have control.
