{"id":29210,"date":"2025-08-20T23:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/?p=29210"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:04:31","slug":"nlb-team-with-their-backs-against-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/nlb-team-with-their-backs-against-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"NLB-Team with their backs against the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the NLB-Team decisively lost Game 1 of the best-of-three quarterfinal series against the Zurich Barracudas&#8217; second team last weekend, they find themselves with their backs against the wall on Sunday at the Heerensch\u00fcrli ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>To turn the series around and extend their season, they need two wins against their local rivals. To achieve this, they need a significant improvement in performance and, above all, a better start into the game. From a mental perspective, the starting position is simple. The Challengers have nothing left to lose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NLB Playoff Quarterfinal, best-of-three: Zurich Challengers II vs. Zurich Barracudas II, 0-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<li>Game 1, Sunday, August 17: <strong>Zurich Barracudas II<\/strong> vs. Zurich Challengers II <strong>21-5<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Game 2, Sunday, August 24, 11:00 AM, Heerensch\u00fcrli: Zurich Challengers II vs. Zurich Barracudas II<\/li>\n<li>Game 3, Sunday, August 24, 2:00 PM, Heerensch\u00fcrli: Zurich Challengers II vs. Zurich Barracudas II (if necessary)<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the NLB-Team decisively lost Game 1 of the best-of-three quarterfinal series against the Zurich Barracudas&#8217; second team last weekend, they find themselves with their backs against the wall on Sunday at the Heerensch\u00fcrli ballpark.<br \/>\nTo turn the series around and extend their season, they need two wins against their local rivals. To achieve this, they need a significant improvement in performance and, above all, a better start into the game. From a mental perspective, the starting position is simple. The Challengers have nothing left to lose.<br \/>\nNLB Playoff Quarterfinal, best-of-three: Zurich Challengers II vs. Zurich Barracudas II, 0-1<br \/>\nGame 1, Sunday, August 17: Zurich Barracudas II vs. Zurich Challengers II 21-5<br \/>\nGame 2, Sunday, August 24, 11:00 AM, Heerensch\u00fcrli: Zurich Challengers II vs. Zurich Barracudas II<br \/>\nGame 3, Sunday, August 24, 2:00 PM, Heerensch\u00fcrli: Zurich Challengers II vs. Zurich Barracudas II (if necessary)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startseite-en","category-nlb-en"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-29 15:44:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29220,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29210\/revisions\/29220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengers.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}