The Fraikin Granollers inflicted this Saturday the first defeat at home this season to a Bidasoa Irún (30-32) that moves away from the second position of the ASOBAL League strengthened by the Catalans led by the international Antonio García. The local team dominated the first minutes with a good address from Azkue, but immediately the people of Valles, with Pol Valera full of imagination, he took the lead (10-11) and forced Bidasoa to go in tow.
This is how the entire first part went: a give and take that alternated the dominance of one team and the other in a totally even match in which Valera was running for the next list of the coach Jordi Ribera. Granollers escaped by two goals in the final stretch of this period because he was phenomenal in defense and always found options up front with the Antonio García-Valera-Salinas triangle. Cavero’s penalty with time to zero left the gap to a minimum.
Everything open for a second half in which the locals they changed their defense to 5:1. The Catalan team was blinded, missing their first three attacks until Valera unblocked his team again. Granollers took a step forward in the last quarter of the game. The Basques gave it back in their defensive performance and the Catalan center back did and undid to give Antonio Rama’s men a hard-fought victory.
Bathco wins the derby and continues to be sweet
Bathco BM Torrelavega prevailed this Saturday in an intense Cantabrian derby against Blendio Sinfín (34-30), which allows it to continue its spectacular streak of seven consecutive wins, between league and cup, and settle in the noble zone of the classification . Although both teams entered the game with very different dynamics, it was Sinfín, which continues to sink to the bottom of the table, who began taking the initiative on the scoreboard.
The first part was developed with great equality between the two Cantabrian representatives in the highest category of national handball, altering minimal differences in electronic. It was not until after the middle of the first period when the Sinfín achieved a first income of more than one goal (10-12). The Santander team maintained its advantage for a few minutes and even, with less than five minutes to go in the first half, extended it to three goals (12-15), although Bathco BM Torrelavega reacted very well and gave it the return to the scoreboard before the two teams went to the changing rooms (16-15).
After going through the locker room, the game resumed with the same equality as at the start of the match, without a clear dominator. A situation that continued until, with less than ten minutes remaining in the match, Bathco BM Torrelavega began to take better advantage of its rival’s errors and inaccuracies and achieved a three-goal lead (28-25). The Sinfín tried to reduce the differences but their attempts were in vain and the most they achieved was to be two goals behind (31-29) before in the final stretch the Torrelaveguense team definitively sentenced the Cantabrian derby with the final 34-30.
ASOBAL matches of day 12
barca – Anaitasuna 33-26
Valladolid – Swan 35-31
Bidasoa – Granollers 30-32
Torrelavega – Auger 34-30
Huesca – Benidorm 28-29
Sunday
Geníl Bridge – Enchanted City, 12:30 p.m.
Cangas – Ademar, 17:00
Guadalajara – Logroño, 18:30