The wolves are coming.

In recent years, VfL Wolfsburg players have mostly made big loot at Eintracht.

Of the last four Bundesliga games, Frankfurt football professionals have lost three times at home against Lower Saxony: 0:2, 0:2, 1:2.

In between there was a goal-rich 4:3 for Eintracht.

It's been almost a year and a half since that victory.

A lot has happened since then.

Eintracht has won the Europa League, VfL has – once again – changed coaches.

Ralph Weitbrecht

sports editor.

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With Niko Kovac, an old acquaintance will be present in the arena this Saturday (3.30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga and on Sky).

The coach arrives full of worries.

Wolfsburg has yet to win a Bundesliga game this season.

The pressure to turn things around is great.

Eintracht completed their sporting U-turn two weeks ago.

The furious 4: 3 spectacle at Werder Bremen has solved blockades.

A week later, the brilliant 4:0 against RB Leipzig followed.

It was the best game in a long time for coach Oliver Glasner's squad, who, despite or because of the bitter 3-0 loss to Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League, said before seeing his old club again: "We also want to win the third Bundesliga game in a row .”

Because Glasner cannot call up his dream eleven due to various injured players, he has to improvise and rotate.

A process that will boom over the next two months.

The five upcoming group tests in the Champions League and the second round game in the DFB Cup at the Stuttgarter Kickers, combined with plenty of Bundesliga games, ensure a packed schedule.

training control?

There is not any.

Is the system change coming?

"Now is the easiest time for the coach," said Glasner before the duel with Wolfsburg.

In other words, serious training will hardly be possible because of the constant stress.

The order of the day is regeneration.

"The players need 48 hours to fully recover." A period of time that can hardly be met due to international commitments.

That's why there will always be changes.

Newcomer Marcel Wenig will be in the Eintracht squad this Saturday.

"Maybe he'll even make his debut," said Glasner about the 18-year-old Franconian, who joined the Frankfurters in the summer from FC Bayern.

A change from a back four to a back three?

Not out of the question, Glasner said, noting it wouldn't be the first time he's pulled Daichi Kamada further back due to tactical changes.

Eintracht not only has personnel problems on the right and left defensive flanks.

Improvisation is also called for in the so-called sixth position due to the absence of captain Sebastian Rode.

The Japanese Kamada has already played there.

After the low blow against Sporting, "disillusionment" spread at Eintracht.

This is how coach Glasner described the situation around his team on the day after the 3-0 defeat against Lisbon.

The Austrian football coach finds it all the more astonishing that the spectators will flock to the stadium again.

Since 47,000 tickets were already sold on Thursday, the club expects another well-attended arena within just one week.

Not a matter of course for Glasner.

"It costs money what our fans do," he said with respect.

The spectators want to see Eintracht run and win.

The result against Lisbon wasn't right, but Glasner agreed with the mileage of his team.

"We ran 122 kilometers as a team, Sporting 119." An asset was Mario Götze, who is still in excellent shape and can make the difference against Wolfsburg, as he did in Bremen and against Leipzig.

Like Götze, Kovac, the temporary returnee, “likes to be in Frankfurt”, as he emphasized.

However, Kovac's last visit was very unpleasant.

After Bayern's 1: 5, he lost his job.

It was a day he said he can't remember with a grin on his face.

"I must have erased that from my memory."