Regionalliga: SV Elversberg has the rise in our own hands

Now everything is really in the southwest again: Through the Elverberger 2: 0 away win in the Bundesliga reserve of the 1st FSV Mainz 05, the top five teams separate only four points. Mainz has 52, Elverberg 51, Steinbach 50, Ulm 49 and Offenbach 48 points in the account. Because the SVE has completed a game less than the Rheinhessen, she currently has the climb back in his own hand.

• The FSV has nothing to lose
• Elversberg has the supposedly lighter tasks

In the Duel's first two teams collected arguments for a third-league application. Elversberg enthused with, so Mainz coach Bartosch Gaul, "Brutal Effectiveness". The leadership gate was a prime example: a diagonal ball played from the distress was processed by Luca Schraumenbacher glossy and handled by Israel Suero Fernandez in the air in a gate. "Do not solve many players in the 3rd league," Gaul was amazed by the individual class. Already for a break, the guests led 2: 0.

However, there were two basic halves. First, only Elversberg came to validity, then almost only Mainz. "The difference is that we have to do a much greater effort for our chances," Gaul, for whom play preparation was difficult, held, because when the team came together to sweat at midday, the Corona situation was still not clear by the Corona situation at the professionals who would play in the evening.

The FSV has nothing to lose

"We're looking from game to game, do not make us unnecessary pressure," says midfielder Dominik Wanner, who has already risen with the Dortmund U 23 last season. "But if one stands in place for so long, one makes himself his thoughts."

The trump's mainzer is that you have nothing to lose in the title race. The pursuers have formulated completely different goals. And Gaul knows the situation to improvise. Often he does not know 48 hours before kick-off, who the professionals send to the clear expectation on game practice. Noteworthy: The homogeneity does not harm the back and forth. "We are a team, all together," says Wanner. This spirit can, combined with the wide squad, wear far.

Elversberg has the supposedly lighter tasks

While it continues for Mainz against the pursubers Offenbach and Ulm, Elversberg gets to do with Teams from Keller and midfield over the next few weeks. "Also in the next game we have to go to our limits to win. There are no simple opponents in the league," says Torwart Nicolas Kristof in front of the home game against Unterticht Schott Mainz. The best assault of the Regionalliga Südwest lasted 16 out of 18 points, only one goal involved. The dead difference of +32 speaks volumes.

"When we realized that there is not so much going forward, we have defended our goal very well," said Sve-Coach Horst Steffen, "so we can go with a broad breast to the next game." Elverberg delivers constantly - and is currently playing like a title favorite.