Altuna generates the benefits | The Basque Journal

“We have played a good game. Urrutikoetxea and Ander Imaz are a couple who don’t give anything away. The sensations have been good and it was important to win thinking about the match against Darío and Zabaleta, complicated to go thinking about the score because it is normal for them to dominate the rally». Jokin Altuna has finished satisfied in the Adarraga. He achieved victory together with Martija (22-17) in a match in which the player from Amezket has changed the rhythm and has created advantages every time he intervened. He has hurt Urrutikoetxea with the right cut to the wall, he has equally attacked both of his rivals and has once again helped his partner a lot. He has entered air to 13 serves. Of the five goals scored against Martija, three have come after feints from Altuna, who has left the ball served to attack behind.

The man from Amezket explained that “at the beginning it was difficult for Martija to gain height, it seemed that the ball jumped in her hand, but in the second half she did well. When he has begun to enjoy, after the 7 equals, is when we have gone on the scoreboard. Imaz has been good throughout the game, while Urrutikoetxea has been aggressive in the second half. They have come to us until 14-16 and the game has hardened.

Although Altuna has commanded, Imaz has liked it. The oiartzuarra has given him more than his rival in the defense. The ball has come out happy from the right. Intense as always, he played a very worthwhile game. Urrutikoetxea did not sign his first play goal until 11-16 –he had three serves–, which means that it was Imaz who held the pair.

In the final stretch, the Biscayan has tightened with two hooks, a stop and many other nice ones. Altuna sent a hook to the plate at 9-16 and a left-handed cut to the line at 13-16. “I think they have been so many well played. You have to adjust and they have escaped me, ”said the Amezketarra. Those two plays have allowed the Colorados to get closer to 14-16. Shortly after, a drop shot from Zaratamo made it 16-19 and it seemed that the game was opening up again, but a ball between his two rivals from Altuna, a ball from the txoko that had come close to Imaz –which gave a rebound at 17-21– and a hook to the line from Urrutikoetxea closed the match.