The 8th game day is scheduled in the women’s and men’s LBBL this Saturday and Sunday.
After losing their first game of the season last weekend, T71 Dudelange (6:1) is challenged on the road in Larochette. Arantia (2:5) wants to end a 5-game losing streak at home.
Basket Esch (5:2) was able to grab a big road win in Dudelange last weeekend. This Saturday,the team of coach Franck Mériguet faces newcomer Gréngewald Hueschtert. The guests have had a succesful start into the season with 3 wins out of 7 games.
Champion Amicale Steinsel (5:2) enters the game against US Heffingen (1:6) as the favorite. The guests were the first LBBL team to make a change at the coaching position and are now coached by Predrag Lukic.
Sparta Bertrange (3:4) has added former player Lavone Holland as the newspaper Tageblatt reported first. The team of coach Chris Wulff faces a difficult challenge against Résidence Walfer (6:1).
The winless team AS Zolwer has added a new professional player in Silver Tariq as a reaction to its poor start (0:7). A very important game is scheduled against AB Contern (3:4) this Sunday.
Etzella Ettelbruck (6:1) wants to continue its impressive start into the season at home against the Musel Pikes (2:5). Antunio Bivins, who played two games for National 2 team BC Mess over the last days, could make his debut for the guests this weekend.
In the women’s LBBL, Gréngewald Hueschtert (4:1) hosts Basket Esch (2:4), it is the second game for the « Greens » this week after their EuroCup game on Wednesday ( –> Gréngewald loses 52:76 against Braine ). The derby between Résidence Walfer (5:3) and Amicale Steinsel (4:3) should become a thrilling game to watch.
After a 1:6 start into the season, Les Sangliers Wiltz host Sparta Bertrange (4:3) as the team from Bertrange is looking to react after 2 losses on last week’s double gameday.
AB Contern (5:1) has been a positive surprise this season and should be able to further improve its record against the winless team AS Zolwer (0:7). The promoted team is losing its games by an average of nearly 40 points so far.
One game is scheduled for Sunday as T71 Dudelange (6:0) hosts Etzella Ettelbruck (3:4). After a very challenging game on Thursday in the EuroCup ( –> T71 loses 84:94 against Fribourg ), the women from Dudelange only had 2 days to rest before the next game.
