The right -handed veteran Diego Urdiales, who came out on his shoulders after cutting the two ears to the fifth in the afternoon by a task of Sublime Natural, again claim his mastery this Friday in the Vista Alegre Coso de Bilbao, which was always one of the talisman squares in his career and where he has triumphed repeatedly.
Even so, the Riojan bullfighter did not enter directly at this fair, but came to replace the convalescent Morante de la Puebla, in a year in which he was being relegated by the companies and with a little presence in the ring, despite the fact that, as he demonstrated yesterday, he is in one of his best moments. And, as happened on other occasions in this ring, he let him see with the one who opened a place, a red that used his devices pythons to always try to hook a crutch that Urdiales, with a perfect game of spaces, heights and pulse, did not let him play more than on a few occasions, in a technically exemplary transteo that also finished off an anthological lunge. It was then asked without much an ear not granted, but that was going to walk twice the room, a long bull, deep and somewhat rod of made that struggled in the early thirds, even fleeing from the picador, but that showed its true face, its good condition, as soon as it alone, the two, Urdiales took it down, walking with a lot of bullfighting, to the media of the square. The first three batches of passes with the right hand have already had an entity and link, no matter how much that Garcigrande did not take his onslaught. Only, with smoothness and pauses, Arnedo’s right -hander was lengthening and specifying until the deception was cast on the left hand, when the summit arrived. Because the three series that set him with the left -handed can well qualify as sublime, imaging and rockering the bull in the smooth flights of the fabric, moving them without apparent effort with a really masterful naturalness and precision.
And the ones, again, full of Vista Alegre vibrated as never before with the most authentic and difficult fundamental bullfighting to see. The ornaments, the aftertaste of a bullfighter who recreated in this unexpected opportunity to demonstrate his authentic artistic dimension, prologized to another lunge of perfect execution, although this time not high, and the concession of the two ears by a presidency that, without hesitation, appeared at the time the two scarves to reward the best task of the Bilbao Fair of 2025. Thus, from such a draft, he almost dislocated his two fellow posters, who tried, without success, approaching that level with the last two bulls.
And so, Alejandro Talavante, who had muted in anodine and with little sincerity to a second noble and measured of race, put all his efforts and a greater adjustment with the fifth, the finest bull and better fact of the confinement. The problem was that the Garcigrande turned off his gallop -gathered when he was afflicted or injured in flags, a tara who accused more in the abrupt and advisedly start of Talavante’s work, which never helped him to settle. Thus opted the Extremadura to get very short with the animal off, which had no choice but to turn him at the end of an almost desperate transport and earned him an ear of comfort.
Nor did Borja Jiménez give good treatment to the two of his lot, whom he greeted Portagayola. In his case, the Sevillian stole vertiginously with both the cape and the crutch, and with a tension that was not the one that the third needed to strengthen a quality that was not accompanied by excessive strength. And even more, after Urdiales’ lesson, he snatched with the last one, a serious red who, very meek in rods, broke in the last third to start promptly from the distance and repeat some delivered and deep onslaught to which Jiménez did not give stroke or fluidity from an almost always skewed placement to splicing short passes with which he could not hurry his remarkable condition.
Garcigrande / Urdiales, Talavante, Jiménez
Six bulls of Garcigrande, Volume disparate, raised and rennet, although all well armed ahead. As for the game, with some bulls cold And even staining in the early thirds, and other measured forces, most had nobility and options in the crutch, except for the first, which defended itself with roughness and the fifth, which was risen.
The sixth was the most complete in the crutch.
Diego Urdiales: Stopped (return to the ring after an ear request), a somewhat opposite front (two ears). Came out to
shoulders.
Alejandro Talavante: Stopy crossed that appears and lunge (silence after notice); stabbed crossed
(ear).
Borja Jiménez: Punchazo, Half Lunge and Rose (silence); Short stabbing (ovation).
Bilbao Square. Fifth celebration of fertilizer of the general runs. More than three quarters of the capacity covered (about 12,000 spectators), in pleasant afternoon and with some wind gusts.