Alemannia Aachen goes into the home game against FC Wegberg-Beeck with a lot of tailwind. Coach Heiner Backhaus is unlikely to make any changes to his starting eleven.

Things are currently tight in the Regionalliga West. A win at leaders Fortuna Cologne, plus a defeat at 1. FC Düren – and Alemannia Aachen’s promotion spot is no longer too far away.

Only six points separate TSV from the top of the table, despite the messed-up start to the season. Since Heiner Backhaus took over as coach, the trend has been upward. The team has collected eight points and conceded just one goal under the still unbeaten coach, and the win against Fortuna a week ago brought them a little closer to the top flight.

When FC Wegberg-Beeck is the guest on Saturday (2 p.m., RS-Liveticker), the Aacheners want to make the next leap up the table. Backhaus makes no secret of that at all. “We think from game to game,” he says in a media interview on Thursday. And yet the 41-year-old has the big goal of promotion in mind. “We have to stay on the ground. But if euphoria arises, we should allow it and use it for us.”

The condition for this: a win against Wegberg-Beeck. No easy task, as Backhaus emphasizes. You meet an opponent who “defends manfully, plays simple soccer, is red-hot after standards and very fast in the switching game,” he warns. “It will be a completely different game. “

His counter-recipe: “We have to bring our worker mentality on the pitch again and be wide awake.” Just like against Fortuna, only this time “we also have to play better with the ball.” The traditional club could hardly do that last week. Because shortly after the 1:0 by Lukas Scepanik (21.) Julian Schwermann saw yellow red – and Aachen had to save the narrow lead through a 70-minute deficiency.

As a consequence, Schwermann will be suspended against Wegberg-Beeck. With the stricken Frederic Baum, a second player is missing from the starting eleven against Cologne. All other “warriors of Cologne”, as Backhaus calls them, the coach speaks a starting eleven guarantee. “That’s logical. Whoever gives so much gas will play for me.”

For the two open places, on the other hand, there are many options. One is probably Marc Brasnic. The striker, top scorer with four goals, returns to the lineup after his injury.