Fall Fair in Las Ventas: Román, passion without rapture | Culture

Román did the most difficult thing: risking his true kind against the most complicated and demanding victor of the afternoon, the fifth, who presented the bullfighter with a power-to-power battle; The Valencian responded with bravery, honor and courage and the public recognized this, but, in the end, when the feat was accomplished, he failed with a resounding success. The sword stood guard, peeked out from the ribs and smeared the very meritorious work.

Before, he had cut off an ear from the ley of the classiest bull, an Astifino like everyone else, who simply performed in rods, went without greed in banderillas and reached the final third as if unwillingly, without apparent joy in his journey.

Román offered his death to Enrique Poncae, and began gently from below, at which point the bull obeyed with fixity and humiliation. It was difficult for the animal to understand its purpose and accept the invitation of the crutch, but it went from less to more. With doubts at first and perseverance, later, in short runs, but with repeated attacks, with rhythm and transmission. Román gave everything he had, everything he was capable of, and perhaps the need for a more powerful crutch remained in the atmosphere, not braver, but deeper. The task, however, was increasing, so that the last round with the right hand was the most successful, round and linked, which was followed by some very bullfighters helped by bass and a thrust with a devastating effect. They awarded him an ear, and it can be thought that it was a fair reward. Just as the bull deserved something more.

And the fifth arrived. You had to take a chance, and Román really took a chance. The bull was complicated, reserved, uncertain, with many doubts in his head, with a short attack and desire to find meat in his opponent. The bullfighter stood up to him with a very meritorious courage, well placed, enduring looks and pauses that seemed unbearable, and he stole passionate muleta blows from the right side, and hooked with his left foot due to the animal’s difficulty. Román managed to convey to the public the emotion of danger and the maximum risk that he decided to take, but he failed to kill and everything was reduced to an ovation. There was passion in the bullfighter’s teamwork, but the final outburst was missing.

Ginés Marín was not lucky with the three bulls that fell to his lot. He greeted the first with a lot of bullfighting in a bunch of excellent speedwells and a stocking of posters; Next, Iván García showed off with the banderillas, but the bull collapsed on the muleta and all attempts were in vain. The fourth was very shabby and dull, and the sixth was dull, which Víctor del Pozo brilliantly flagged, and with which Marín exposed more than the bull deserved. Insistent on both pitons, he stood out in a group of graceful naturals and all his effort and endurance, which was not little, was smeared with the sword.

The one with the worst luck was David Galván. Shortly after starting the muleta task, after a few low blows with the muleta, his first, an uncertain bull that did not allow him to position himself, hooked him by the right leg, and once on the ground he lifted him by the chest and left him unconscious in the sand. Fortunately, what seemed like a serious goring in the hemithorax has turned out to be a complete blow pending radiological study.