Huge blow for Orléans Loiret Basket. The Loiretaine team will have to do without its best player Youssou Ndoye, while the race for maintenance is on. There are nine games left before the end of the season.
Absent for an indefinite period
Even if the Orléanais did not go far from the feat on Sunday April 3, 2022 on the Monaco floor, they did not pocket the victory. A 90-84 defeat which plunges the OLB into the red relegation zone on Sunday evening. But with the defeat of Châlons-Reims on Tuesday April 5 against Monaco (90-107), OLB can no longer be relegated.
The Orleans Loiret Basket club announces that its Orleans pivot Youssou Ndoye has fractured his left hand during the match against Monaco. The team’s top scorer, fourth best scorer in the Betclic Elite championship with 17.2 points on average, should not see the field again for the season. Youssou Ndoye is also the best rebounder in the championship. The club does not give an absence date but looking for a freelancer to replace him. Germain Castabo explains that all eyes are on the Russian and Ukrainian championship to find a position 5 urgently.
Orléans Loiret Basket faces ASVEL, current third, on Saturday April 9 at the Palais des Sports in Orléans at 3:15 p.m. The Orleans coach is formal, no replacement will be present for Saturday’s meeting.