Oliver Glasner is not afraid of any challenges.

The new Eintracht coach sees difficult situations as an opportunity and not as a burden.

“If I had just wanted it, I would have stayed in Wolfsburg,” says the 47-year-old Austrian.

With the Lower Saxony, who are Bundesliga leaders under their new coach Mark van Bommel, Glasner qualified for the Champions League in the preseason.

The Frankfurters, on the other hand, are currently only fourteenth in the first division. In four competitive games Glasner has not yet managed to win with the Hessians. Even if the upheaval in Frankfurt this summer turned out to be greater than expected: Glasner had not imagined his task to be that difficult. He couldn't count on the alternating theater with Filip Kostic and Amin Younes. Even the injury-related loss of his new team captain Sebastian Rode did not play into his cards.

Nevertheless, Glasner has always kept calm so far.

Like a prayer wheel, he puts the sense of community in the foreground.

With a clear view of things, the trainer undeterred indicates the direction of the march.

There is no room with him for daydreams and mourning missed opportunities.

“The missed Champions League won't come back.

The hoped-for offers no longer come.

Let us tick off the past, ”is Glasner's appeal to the workforce.

Realistic thinking is required for him.

"I have to find solutions"

Glasner knows how important unity is now, without annoying background noises, in order to make a turnaround with Eintracht under difficult conditions. The pressure on everyone involved is great and the time to come together is short. Only eight professionals were able to do the entire season preparation with the trainer in Frankfurt. Among them was only one regular player: Kostic.

There were also injuries like those of Rode and Almamy Touré. Not to forget that the newcomers Rafael Borré, Jesper Lindström and Jens Petter Hauge only gradually arrived in Frankfurt. The final new signings Kristijan Jakic and Sam Lammers only came to Eintracht last week. The automatisms in the Eintracht game cannot yet take hold. In order to be able to coordinate the routes in the team, intensive training with the whole team would be necessary.

Only in the national team break are 13 Eintracht professionals in their selection teams, including the Colombian Borré, who Eintracht does not expect back next Saturday at the earliest.

Coordination problems are therefore programmed if Frankfurt continues the season with the home game against Stuttgart on Sunday.

The two strikers Borré and Lammers cannot get to know each other during this working week.

“I have to find solutions.

Thats my job.

We are challenged to do it, ”says Glasner.

To quarrel with the circumstances is out of the question for the pragmatist.

“I don't deal with that.

That only leads to frustration and dissatisfaction. ”Glasner sets a good example.