Lemgo fights for a draw against Göppingen with drama!

Lemgo fights for a draw against Göppingen with drama!

On June 8, 2025, the 2024/25 season of the DAIKIN Handball Bundesliga ended with a thrilling draw between TBV Lemgo Lippe and FRISCH Auf! Göppingen. The game took place in the Phoenix Contact Arena and ended with a 29:29, which secured Lemgo's highest point win since 2010 newsgo.de reported.

The TBV Lemgo Lippe team was able to rely on a full squad, including goalkeeper Leon Goldbecker, who is moving to TSG A-H Bielefeld next season. However, Göppingen started strong and quickly went 0-5 ahead. Bobby Schagen scored the first goal for Lemgo in the sixth minute, after which the team fought back to 3:6 by the 15th minute. Towards the end of the first half, Leve Carstensen reduced the deficit to 10:13, with a halftime score of 10:15 for Göppingen.

Second half and comeback

In the second half, Göppingen was able to extend its lead to seven goals (12:19 after 35 minutes). Bart Ravensbergen, the Göppingen goalkeeper, made numerous saves and kept his team in the game. However, Lemgo was not discouraged and fought its way back to 19:23 between the 45th and 50th minutes. In the 56th minute, Samuel Zehnder converted a seven-meter penalty and reduced the score to 26:27, before Leve Carstensen equalized the score to 27:27 in the 57th minute. Lukas Hutecek made the final score 29:29 with his goal in the final second.

The best thrower for Lemgo was Samuel Zehnder with six goals. In an emotional atmosphere, five players were bid farewell after the game, including Goldbecker, Thomas Houtepen, Connar Battermann, Leos Petrovsky and Jan Brosch. Coach Florian Kehrmann commented on the mistakes at the start of the game, but at the same time emphasized his team's great performance in the last ten minutes.

Looking back at the season

Overall, the season was mixed for Lemgo Lippe. The team had previously won against the Rhein-Neckar Löwen 34:31 on January 27th, which extended the winning streak to four games. With this performance, the team was able to consolidate their place in the league and ended the season with 6 wins and 2 losses, which gave them 12 points and 6th place, as mk.co.kr reported.

With the draw against Göppingen, TBV Lemgo Lippe ends the season and begins its preparation for the next season 2025/26 in mid-July.