Hesperange sees red and loses

The Luxembourg football champions suffered a heavy defeat on matchday 24 of the BGL Ligue. On Sunday Hesperange lost 1:2 against Mondorf. The guests benefited from Cédric Sacras being sent off in the 59th minute. saw a yellow-red card after a handball in the penalty area. Mondorf’s Sofiane Bekkouche converted the penalty to make it 2-0 (60′). Jean-Paul Kumbi had previously given his team the lead (56′). After Raphael Holzhauser in the 72nd minute missed a penalty kick, Hesperinger’s goal by Yoane Lasme (73′) came too late.

F91 prevented a similarly bitter day at the last minute: coach Claudio Lombardelli’s team only scored the 4-3 winning goal in Mersch through Herman Moussaki in the fourth minute of stoppage time. The Dudelingers had meanwhile led 3-1 after goals from Moussaki (23′) and Samir Hadji (50′, 55′). But the hosts didn’t give up and equalized through Benjamin Bresch (53′, penalty kick, 74′) and Jedilson Varela (64′).

In the end, however, the newcomer was just as empty-handed as the in-form Jeunesse. The record champions, who had not lost eight games in a row, lost to Strassen 1-2. Bruno Correia (8′, 15′) single-handedly shot the guests to victory. Adrien Kack’s goal (65′) came too late for Escher, who had to end the game with ten men after a red card against Emmanuel Lapierre (83′, serious foul).

Rosport climbs in the table

Niederkorn is now tied on points with Hesperange, which makes the fight for the international places extremely exciting. FC Progrès won 2-1 against Racing on Sunday. Kenny Mixtur (23′) and Issa Bah (71′) scored for coach Jeff Strasser’s team, while Eldin Rastoder only managed to score for the capital city team (89′). The game was also marked by injuries: Brian Amofa and goalkeeper Sébastien Flauss had to leave the field for the hosts, while Andreas Buch, Farid Ikene and Dinan Amiri were injured for Racing.

Differdange is hovering above all this, and even six match days before the end of the season there was no weakness. The leaders won 4-0 in Schifflingen with goals from Guillaume Trani (11′), Artur Abreu (50′), Theo Brusco (59′) and Jorginho (62′). There was also cheering in Rosport. FC Victoria moved up to sixth place in the table with a 2-1 win against Monnerich. André Redekop (8′) and Adham El Idrissi (37′) scored for FC Victoria, an own goal from Davis Spruds (70′) brought the goal back. In the 23rd’ Monnerich’s Elvis Delgado missed a penalty kick.

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The two draws of the match day came in Petingen and Wiltz: In Union Titus’ 1-1 draw against Käerjeng there were not only two goals, but also two dismissals: Ousmane Baldé gave the guests the lead (16′) and flew in the 45th minute .+1.’ sent off from the field after a foul that was too hard. Petingen’s Demba Seck equalized two minutes after Jeremy Mawatu’s yellow-red card. In the 1-1 draw between Wiltz and Fola, Christophe Schroeder (4′) scored for the home team and Oskar Ekeberg (51′) scored for Escher. Wiltz even had victory on his foot, but Ben Biver missed in the 81st minute.’ a hand penalty.