The Barça team only knows what it is to win after a duel against Irun in which a huge Gonzalo shone with his own light
The Asobal League will be interrupted until March 25 by the national teams and then by the Asobal Cup in León
Three days after closing the group stage of the Champions League with a spectacular record of 13 wins and one draw, the Barca added another victory this Sunday in Artaleku against Bidasoa Irun (26-32) which he cemented in the first half before facing a long hiatus of two weekends without the Asobal League.
Now it will play a stoppage for national team matches that they will leave the Ciutat Esportiva half empty again and then a new edition of the Asobal Cup will arrive in León in which the current champion will play the semifinals against the great revelation of the season, REBI Balonmano Cuenca (Saturday, March 18 at 6:00 p.m.).
Without the discarded Luka Cindric, Barça carried out an impressive first 15 minutes in defensive tasks with a center made up of Ludovic Fàbregas, Jonathan Carlsbogard and the ‘quarterback’ Thiagus Petrus. If we add to this that the captain Gonzalo Perez de Vargas I was even more inspired than usualyou can understand the strange marker.
After five initial minutes with 0-0 in the electronic, Carlos Ortega’s men were able to score directly with two goals from Dika Mem and three from Aleix Gómez to leave by seven goals after the first quarter of the match (2-9). Yes, the irundarras had two goals in 15 minutes and Gonzalo was at a spectacular 6/8 with 75% effectiveness.
As they were not doing a bad job in defense, the locals managed to balance themselves in attack thanks to several penalties, although the irruption of Melvyn Richardson raised the visitor’s lead to nine goals (7-16 at 2:18 from the intermission). The locals were able to run for the first time all night and reduced their deficit to 10-17 before the new goal of the son of the mythical Jackson with which the first act closed (10-18).
With their homework almost done and quite punished by the arduous calendar of the last few days with two games a week, the azulgrana team lowered the intensity a bit and this contributed to equalize a lot in a second part that, by the way, Jacobo Cuétara’s men scored 16-14.
An excellent Luís Frade in the pivot prevented the local attempts from being translated even into a threat of comeback and with four goals in a row from the Portuguese, the great dominator of all domestic competitions he even left for nine goals (15-24, min. 39:43)although from then on the dynamics began to be more favorable for the Basques.
So much so that Carlos Ortega called a timeout with 21-28 at 50′, coinciding with a threat of defensive change at 5-1 for Bidasoa. And that threat became a reality moments later with the result that Barca’s static attack was thicker. The irundarras came within just five goals after 54′ (24-29), but two good defenses and the consequent goals from Dika Mem and Carlsbogard put things back on track. In the end, 26-32 and at the break with good feelings.