In the Regionalliga West, leaders Rot-Weiss Essen have to play for FC Schalke’s U23s on Saturday (2 p.m.). It is played in the arena.
10,000 spectators are allowed if Red and white food on Saturday at the U23 des FC Schalke starts. The derby will be played in the Royal Blues Arena. A worthy setting, the tickets for RWE fans are all sold, around 1,400 people from Essen will accompany their team to Gelsenkirchen – there were no more tickets for people from Essen.
And after the game against Prussia Münster was stopped, everyone is standing RWE– Spectators in particular in focus because a chaot threw a firecracker against Münster. In the last away game in an arena of a Bundesliga club (2-1 win at Gladbach II), Essen set off numerous pyros, which should not be repeated.
RWE-Trainer Christian Neidhart emphasizes with a view to their own supporters: “I think the fans know what it’s about. Nothing can happen, we have to calm down. Only sport counts. We have a huge task ahead of us.”
In fact, RWE won the first leg 1-0 after a goal by Dennis Grote. Most recently, the S04 talents showed an increasing form curve. Torsten Fröhling’s team only lost one of their last eight games. There was only one defeat at home – on the first matchday against 1. FC Köln II.
Neidhart, who can go back to the bench after his Corona illness, on the game: “Schalke is very stable in the second half of the season. The team has good quality, the first leg was already difficult. With Schalke and Ahlen, two tough tasks await us. “
After the derby, the catch-up game at RWA awaits on Wednesday. Crucial weeks are coming up, so it is an advantage for RWE that there are currently only a few outages. Not even after the 9-1 win in the Lower Rhine Cup at the state league club Krefeld-Fischeln. Only the use of Sascha Voelcke and Nils Kaiser is questionable. The long-term injured Kevin Holzweiler and Michel Niemeyer will also drop out.
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