After a 3-2 win and a convincing performance at Rot-Weiss Essen, Alemannia Aachen suffered their second defeat in a row. Frustration after 1-2 defeat in Verl. Just a week and a half after their exhilarating 3-2 win at Rot-Weiss Essen, Alemannia Aachen are back down to earth in terms of results. They suffered a 1-2 defeat at SC Verl, with Julian Stark scoring the winning goal in the 89th minute.

“It’s a very difficult phase at the moment because we’re performing very well but not getting rewarded for it. In the end, Verl demanded a lot from us. You can see that something has grown together and that we played against a really good opponent. I don’t have anything bad to say about my players, but at the end of the day, with six match days and four defeats, it’s just not good enough from all of us,“ said Aachen coach Benedetto Muzzicato afterwards on ”Magenta Sport.”

His team was able to equalize Berkan Taz’s opener (60th minute) through Lars Gindorf (70th minute). The late penalty was ultimately the final blow.

The bottom line is that they have only four points from their first six games. Despite some promising performances, Aachen have only managed one 3-2 win at Rot-Weiss Essen.

“It’s a combination of a lack of punch up front – after everything we’ve created with the ball in recent games – and the fact that we’re conceding too many easy goals. Both of the opponent’s dangerous moves went straight in. We have to ask ourselves how it can be that we are once again defending too naively. We have to take a good look at ourselves, hold our heads high and keep working,” said Lukas Scepanik. The left-back has been in the starting lineup five times this season and has also come off the bench once. He scored his first and only goal of the season in the 2-4 defeat to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II. On Saturday, September 20, at 2 p.m., Alemannia Aachen will face SV Waldhof Mannheim at their home ground, Tivoli.