Sebastián Castella: "I've given a lot of myself, I don't know what happened to the man who didn't listen to me."

A good afternoon for Juan Pedro Domecq 's team this Thursday of lanterns in the Maestranza bullring, where Sebastián Castella and Diego Urdiales each took two ears, and local bullfighter Pablo Aguado left empty-handed despite his good work with 'Victorioso', the third of the afternoon.

The presidential box also took center stage this afternoon at the Baratillo bullring due to its uneven criteria for awarding trophies to the same matador, Sebastián Castella. After his two hard-fought performances, and with a bitter taste in his mouth, the French bullfighter declared that Thursday's performance had been "an afternoon of effort in which the bulls moved." Castella confessed that he "enjoyed it a lot" and lamented that his "dedication" to 'Predicador,' the fifth bull of the afternoon, hadn't been rewarded. "I don't know what happened to the gentleman who didn't give me an ear for the second, when they asked for it more than for the first. I'm going to be self-critical; perhaps I could have fought more with my left hand, but the bull wasn't giving any more. I fought at will , I reduced the pressure a lot," he said in this regard. In any case, the name of his first bull, 'Mágico,' which earned him an appendix, proved premonitory for the Frenchman. "I've experienced Seville. After 25 years, being in this plaza is very special," he told Ser Sevilla.

For his part, Pablo Aguado also performed an excellent performance with his 'Victorioso', a name that in this case wasn't a prediction because the final puncture prevented him from winning. "I was moved while bullfighting, it happens even with a heifer, and it happened to me here in Seville, thank God. Regarding that missed opportunity, and although he said that "I carry the sorrow inside," the Sevillian was very satisfied with the result. "It was perhaps one of the performances in which I felt most free in Seville . It was very beautiful; no one can take away what I felt, and I wouldn't change it for anything."

Diego Urdiales was also pleased with an afternoon in which the bulls shared the spotlight on the radio, first with the election of the new Pope and then with Betis' decisive match in Florence: "It was very beautiful, being able to feel the bullfighting in that arena so slowly and from within. I'm very happy," he acknowledged. The bullfighter from La Rioja shared his vision of bullfighting on the same microphones. "That thing about fighting one at a time often isn't like that. The bullfighter is connected, but each bull has its own timing. It seems like you have to leave the muleta in its face and do everything in one go, but timing is also very important. I killed him very well," he said about one of the best sword thrusts so far at the Seville Fair.