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The Eintracht Frankfurt is currently experiencing a boom. In the Bundesliga, the Hessians rank third. In the Europa League, they lead group H after four wins in four matches and have already qualified for the round of 16. The father of success is Vorarlberger Adi Hütter.
The sports director of Eintracht Frankfurt, Fredi Bobic, is presented to Hütter in the summer. The latter, aged 48, was waiting for a cancellation. "I badumed that he had said we had chosen another coach," Hütter recently announced. But Bobic then proposed to the Austrian the vacant post – and thus achieved a sporting and human success.
Under Hütter lives Hesse this season, a barely conceivable recovery, which must continue in the penultimate group match of the Europa League against Olympique Marseille on Thursday (at 21:00). "It's impressive to see that we are already qualified," Hütter said Wednesday. The goal was: "We want to show a good game and enter the fifth victory."
Although Eintracht, still undefeated on the European stage, has already booked his ticket to the knockout stages as leaders of Group H, he is rather against the finalists of last year already retired . A success would throw an additional 570,000 euros into the coffers and increase the chances of winning the group 's one – million – euro win. "If we go on the spot, we want to win, so I expect the team to show the faces of the last two months," Hütter said.
For ten competitive matches, nine of which were won, the Frankfurt are unbeaten and have now climbed to third place in the Bundesliga. This series will last a long time. "I want us to stay hungry," said Hütter. "We will definitely lose a match again, but the opponent must be very good."
No wonder officials are enthusiastic about the former international ÖFB. "With Adi Hütter, the chemistry was incredibly fast, and I'm glad we made that decision," Bobic said recently about the successor of relegated Bayern Munich's Niko Kovac. "The inheritance was not easy, it also shows the courage he really wanted to do." The players also think a lot about the new coach. "He gives us confidence and prepares us well," commented top scorer Sébastien Haller.
For Hütter, who won the Double in 2015 in Austria with Red Bull Salzburg and became champion with his Young Boys Bern in Frankfurt, Switzerland, a dream came true with the move to the Bundesliga. Where he thought at the beginning of his term rather in a nightmare. In Supercup, there was a 0-5 defeat against Bayern in front of the public, in the DFB Cup, the defending champion failed in the first round of the fourth division, the SSV Ulm.
Hütter was suddenly before the first match of the Bundesliga as the best candidate for the coach's first rematch of the season. "But the officials never pushed me and trusted me," he said of the difficult start-up phase. This has paid off. "Three months ago we were down, we are now a great team, we have come a long way," said Hütter.
The hit series sparked a huge euphoria in the environment. Even against Marseille, the arena is sold out with 47,000 spectators. Hütter herself agrees with her. "I do not feel the hype because I do not run in the city," said coach Eintracht. "But of course, I see it and I appreciate it in silence." He also wants to do it Thursday night.
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