A complete game-day is ahead in the women’s and men’s Total League. While the men’s 6 games are all scheduled on Saturday, 2 women games will be played on Saturday and 2 games will be played on Sunday.
Men:
Musel Pikes (3:3) – Contern (3:3) (rtl live-stream –> Live-stream Musel Pikes – Contern)
Heffingen (3:3) – Racing (2:4) (live on youtube –>live-stream USH – Racing
Basket Esch (4:2) – Sparta (1:5)
Amicale (1:5) – T71 (5:1)
Arantia (4:2) – Etzella (6:0) (live on youtube –> youtube-link Arantia – Etzella )
Telstar (0:6) – Résidence (4:2)
On Saturday-evening, two key games will be played between teams that have the goal to fight for the title at the end of the season by reaching at least the 6th place in the standings. The MuselPikes and Contern have the same record (3:3) and the winner of this game will be in a good situation while the losing team will drop in the standings. Heffingen could earn a key win by putting some distance between them and their opponent Racing, while the guests from the capital need wins over the next weeks in order to compensate their slow start when they only had 1 professional player on the team.
The unbeaten leader Etzella is rolling ( –> Etzella’s offense has been impossible to stop ) and they will try to show their offensive strenght also a^on the road in Larochette on Saturday. Arantia needs to find a way to slow down the guests in order to compete with teh guests. T71 has shown a strong performance to restart the season and wants to continue to build confidence on the road in Steinsel.
Résidence should have no big troubles to overpower Telstar on the road while Basket Esch will look to bounce back after their loss against T71 with a convincing win over Sparta. The team from Bertrange has earned some repect already with a good performance against the Pikes and no team will underestimate them.
Women:
Basket Esch (2:5) – Amicale (3:4)
T71 (6:1) – Gréngewald (5:2) (game will be streamed live on T71’s facebook page)
Etzella (3:4) – Contern (2:5) *
Musel Pikes (6:1) – Sparta (0:7) *
Résidence does not play this weekend.
* games on Sunday
Co-leaders T71 and Musel Pikes have very different tasks ahead this weekend. While the Pikes will host the winless team from Bertrange, T71 has a difficult opponent as Gréngewald comes to Dudelange. Etzella has struggled to restart the season and will look to find a rhythm at home against Contern. Amicale wants to have a balanced record after this game-day by beating Esch, however, Esch needs 2 points in order to improve the chances of reaching the 6th place in the standings, but there are a lot of games left to be played.
At the start of next week, an updated JICL MVP-ranking presented by Lalux in the women`s Total league will be presented.
