Lemgo defeated Eisenach 39-30 in a club friendly match on 16 August 2026, played in Eisenach at 13:30 local time. The visitors outscored their hosts by nine goals across the full contest.
Both sides carried recent struggles into the game. Eisenach had lost four of their previous five fixtures, including defeats to Magdeburg and Flensburg-Handewitt in consecutive days. Lemgo were similarly winless in their last two outings, having fallen to Flensburg-Handewitt and Magdeburg on 15 and 14 August respectively.
The result extended Eisenach's difficult run in these preparations. They had managed only one victory in their last five matches, that being a 38-33 win against HSG Wetzlar on 19 July. Lemgo, meanwhile, had won three of their last five, with victories over Ferndorf and Kiel among them.
What stood out was the contrast in momentum. Eisenach's losses had come by narrow margins — four goals against Magdeburg, three against Flensburg-Handewitt — yet none of those close defeats translated into form. Lemgo's two losses were also tight affairs, four goals to Flensburg and five to Magdeburg, but they found a way back into it against Eisenach.
The nine-goal margin told the story of a match where one side responded and the other did not. Eisenach had kept their heads in earlier games, dug in against tougher opposition, but by then the pattern had set in. Lemgo, carrying a winless streak of their own, took advantage.