Friday, November 29, 2024, 10:52
After the European high, Bidasoa Irun comes down to earth and on the eleventh day of the Asobal League they will host Benidorm this Saturday at 5:30 p.m. in Artaleku, one of the three teams that close the table with five points. They achieved them in the first four days and then have had six consecutive defeats, including Wednesday’s visit to Villa de Aranda, which was also with five points.
Alex Mozas warns that “to think that the bottom is coming and that we are going to win easily is to be 100% wrong” and assures that “the classification does not reflect the trajectory it has had in recent years and the squad it has. Most of their losses have been by one or two goals. He has always been involved in the games, except the other day against Aranda,” which they lost 32-24, with 15-7 at halftime.
In that sense, he acknowledges that “it would have been better for us if they won in Aranda, because they would come here a little calmer. Now a team is going to come that needs to win no matter what, that is going to come angry because of what happened in Aranda and that makes it a very complicated game.
The Madrid coach believes that it could be key “if we start very well and don’t let them get hooked on the game. That they see themselves behind on the scoreboard surely generates anxiety or the desire to turn that around quickly. That usually leads you to play worse. And that is why it is so important that they are not comfortable during the start of the game. Therefore, the message is clear: «Start very plugged in so that they see that they don’t have options here either. “Start eating up the track, taking them off the track with our rhythm.”
Bidasoa Irun is also in need of points but for other objectives. After ten games they are sixth with eleven points – the same as Atlético Valladolid and Nava, fifth and seventh – and two points separate them from fourth place, where Ademar is.
The first four at the end of the first round will compete in the Asobal Cup and “that is the objective, to be among the first four. If we achieve it, it would be a pretty good first round, taking into account all the changes and everything we have done.
The match is lost again, and those who remain until the end of the year, Matheus da Silva, injured in training in Granollers. The Bidasoa Sports Club has reported that “a nuclear magnetic resonance study was carried out on his right knee, an intra-articular free body was seen in the posterolateral compartment that is blocking his joint and will require surgical repair through arthroscopy, which will be performed soon. The findings during the aforementioned intervention will determine the recovery times for the return to sports activity.
