Frankfurt / Main (dpa / lhe) – The final phase of the Bundesliga will be an exciting final spurt for Eintracht Frankfurt to make it into the Champions League. “All games are finals. It starts with 1. FC Union Berlin,” emphasized head coach Adi Hütter before the game on Saturday (3:30 pm / Sky) against the club from the capital. “Then the month of truth begins.”
So that it does not end in “April, April”, the Hessians still have to mobilize some forces to create the “extraordinary” (Hütter) and to be able to play in Europe’s top league for the first time. After all, in the coming month there will be four opponents in Borussia Dortmund, VfL Wolfsburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayer Leverkusen who want, can and should trip Eintracht. “The pressure is on the other clubs,” said Hütter.
The Frankfurters are fourth with 44 points and are hardest hit by BVB (42) and Bayer 05 (40), while Wolfsburg (3rd place) are four points ahead and Gladbach (10th) nine points away. “Everyone is hungry and nobody is really scared,” asserted midfielder Djibril Sow in the “Frankfurter Rundschau”. The mood is good and everything is just right.
The fact that this atmospheric high continues and will lead to further successes after the international break should also be influenced by the outcome of the game against the Berliners. “They are also playing a good season, but we want to win,” said Hütter, but he also knows about the difficulty of the task against the seventh in the table, who escaped bankruptcy in the first half of the season with only one show of strength (3: 3).
“We are dealing with a very unpleasant opponent who play tactically very disciplined and are the strongest team in the league,” said Hütter. “It will be a battle of attrition.” The “Iron” have been unbeaten for five games, Frankfurt for three games without a win.
The European-focused hosts will probably have to do without defensive boss Martin Hinteregger, who is injured in his thigh. “Hinti was able to partially resume training,” reported Hütter. “It’s a race against time.” For this, the Japanese Daichi Kamada will return to the offensive midfield.
The Austrian coach still has high hopes for striker Luka Jovic, who is on loan from Real Madrid, who scored three goals in the first three appearances but has been without a goal in seven games. “He has to go through a dry spell. But it would be nice if it turned out to be the case that he would be the player who wins games for us,” said Hütter.
Hütter does not want to deal with the fact that at the end of the season the start in the premier class or the Europa League should not jump out, but only the new Conference League, that is what Hütter does not want to deal with: “We want to stay ahead. The Conference League is something else I don’t think about that. “
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