Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 10:31
The Asobal League is going to finish its first leg with two days in one week and Irudek Bidasoa Irun will visit Granollers on Wednesday (9:00 p.m., Teledeporte) and host Cuenca on Saturday (8:00 p.m.). The irundarras are second, tied with Logroño, and are one point ahead of their host tomorrow.
Alex Mozas believes that this classic does not come at a good time because “it is played on Wednesday and both teams have had very tough groups in the European League and we have both suffered and fought until the end.”
The physical state of the teams is worrying. «They have had many casualties, so have we. We will have to see who comes from them, who from us, but, nevertheless, when you enter the field you forget everything and for everyone it is a special match, not only because of the points that are very important, but because of all the conditions and the context, which in the end these matches are very nice to play.
With two days left to finish the first round, the Madrid native gives his team a very good grade. «The team’s response has been very good. Getting or having the option of getting 23 points, having played in Europe and having passed the group stage, would be something of honor.
Regarding Granollers, he indicates that “it has many very young, very good people. This year Marcos Fis has emerged, and everyone is talking about him, there are Pablo Urdangarín and Bruno Reguart and Adrià Figueras who have returned… They are managing to recover talent from those who left and that is very good for the League. “He also has very good goaltending.”
The Vallesano team went through a bad streak but “the other day they won in Cangas with solvency, also well in Cuenca… They are very difficult fields and they played the games very well.”
Regarding his opponent tomorrow, he highlights that “he has a lot of goals in transition, which means that we have to think about how to balance the team to retreat well. And then he has a lot of goals in positional attack, especially with Fis and Urdangarin, who are now both in a very sweet moment. “They are very difficult players to stop one-on-one and with a lot of outside shooting, we are going to have to be very demanding on a defensive level.”
Of course, “we also have many arguments to be able to harm them. We don’t want it to be a match like last year’s in the first round, which although we competed very well, it ended with many goals, which I believe is something that benefits them. “We are going to see if we are able to control the pace of the game a little and from there reach the end with options, as we did last season and that we have a little more luck than we had that time.”
