EHL: Léo looking to find fluidity in Belgian league

Royal Léopold will probably be trying to construct up their early season type after they tackle bottom-ranked Herakles on Sunday within the Belgian males’s Carlsberg 0.0 League.

Whereas they sit in a share of prime spot with Gantoise after 4 rounds of matches with three wins and a draw to their title, it has not been plain-sailing to this point. It follows slim single-goal wins over Beershot, Pingouin and KHC Dragons together with a 3-3 dwelling draw with Uccle.

It leads as much as an EHL date with HC Wien on October ninth within the KO16 in Barcelona the place they may hope to pursue a 3rd successive ticket to the FINAL8.

Their strikers are firing with Tom Boon (4 objectives) and Gaspard Baumgarten (5 objectives) and, together with José Basterra and Nelson Onana, they’ve an irresistible ahead line.

Past them, the likes of Gauthier Boccard, Corentin De Trez, Dylan Englebert, Dimitri Cuvelier, Tanguy Zimmer and Romain Henet have been the spine of the facet for some time.

This season, Spanish worldwide Alejandro Alonso is the large signing this summer time, making the shifting from Racing Santander.

Shifting on, final season’s captain John Verdussen has retired from the primary group having been a part of every of Léo’s EHL campaigns courting again to 2012.

Nicolas Poncelet will play with Membership de Campo de Madrid this season. Elliot van Strydonck has gone to Racing Membership de Bruxelles.

On the teaching entrance, Jill Boon hyperlinks up with the facet to be T3 and will probably be there in assist of Max Bertrand.

That is their ninth EHL season with their greatest end result in 2021 after they acquired bronze within the Wagener Stadium.