Die Lilien again within the prime flight

Newly-promoted Darmstadt will kick off their Bundesliga marketing campaign with a frightening journey to Deutsche Financial institution Park for Sunday’s assembly with Eintracht Frankfurt.

Eintracht Frankfurt

Frankfurt are going into the 2023-24 Bundesliga season with a brand new supervisor within the sizzling seat. Julian Nagelsmann’s former assistant coach Dino Toppmöller has changed Oliver Glasner, who missed out on the possibility of ending his tenure with a cup win. Frankfurt’s defeat to RB Leipzig within the DFB-Pokal end ensured they needed to accept a spot within the Europa Convention League after rounding off the Bundesliga season in seventh place.

Die Adler have been busy assembling their squad within the low season, signing Éric Junior Dina Ebimbe, Ansgar Knauff and Phillip Max on everlasting transfers following their respective mortgage spells with the membership final season. Willian Pacho, Hugo Larsson and Jessic Ngankam are additionally amongst people who have joined Die Adler forward of the 2023-24 marketing campaign.

Frankfurt turned their consideration to issues on the pitch final weekend, kicking off Toppmöller’s with a 7-0 victory over Lokomotiv Leipzig within the first spherical of the Pokal final weekend. They are going to be seeking to declare one other win of their league opener, and the hosts can draw inspiration from the 4-2 residence victory they recorded over Darmstadt within the final 16 of the Pokal earlier this 12 months.

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The hosts will likely be unable to name upon Lucas Alario and Mehdi Loune attributable to damage points, whereas Paxten Aaronson is a doubt attributable to sickness.

Darmstadt

After spending six years away from the highest flight, Darmstadt are again within the Bundesliga after having fun with a profitable 2022-23 marketing campaign, which finally resulted in promotion. As a newly-promoted facet, Darmstadt’s sole goal will likely be to keep away from an instantaneous return to the second tier.

Sadly for die Lillien, they’ve misplaced the companies of final season’s prime scorer Phillip Tietz, who has accomplished a transfer to Augsburg. Whereas Tietz has left the membership, Darmstadt have tried to strengthen their squad with quite a few additions. Luca Pfeiffer and Matej Maglica have each arrived on mortgage from Stuttgart, whereas Christoph Klarer and Fraser Hornby have signed on everlasting offers.

The 2023-24 marketing campaign obtained off to a disappointing begin for Torsten Lieberknecht, as they fell to a shocking 3-0 away defeat to fourth-tier facet FC Homburg. They must choose themselves from that poor consequence and produce an improved efficiency if they’re to bother Frankfurt on Sunday.

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Lieberknecht may have the vast majority of his squad accessible to him, though there are doubts over the provision of Matthias Bader and Tobias Kempe.

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