Omar Marmoush has fuelled Eintracht Frankfurt's early season form, steering them into the top three and to a thrilling 3-3 draw against Bayern Munich. With eight goals to his name, bundesliga.com looks at the rise of German football's Egyptian Pharaoh.

"It's not easy to just say, 'We'll defend him'. Should we double-team him? Also not so simple. A good player always finds the spaces. It's obviously difficult to keep a player like that in check," said Holstein Kiel coach Marcel Rapp about Marmoush. Defending against the Egyptian has been quite the dilemma for Bundesliga defences. 

Over the past decade or so, Frankfurt have consistently given a platform for elite forwards to excel in the Bundesliga - the likes of Luka Jović, Sébastien Haller, Randal Kolo Muani and Jay-Jay Okocha come to mind from the past. Marmoush is the latest in that long line.

It has been a fairly patient wait for the 25-year-old to hit top form, and after stints at Wolfsburg, St. Pauli and VfB Stuttgart he seems to have finally found his place being the central hub of Dino Toppmöller's Eintracht side.

So what's behind the magic of Marmoush's performances? 

The indispensable Pharaoh

After failing to land a starting spot at his previous Bundesliga clubs, Marmoush is now a firm starter at Eintracht and arguably their biggest player. This season, he has started every single game as part of the forward line-up, mostly alongside Hugo Ekitiké, whose permanent arrival this summer has brought a lot of excitement. 

As part of that front two, Marmoush now has the licence to drop off and stretch defences with his dynamism on and off the ball. 

"He's responsible for producing danger up front," said Toppmöller after the 4-2 win at Kiel. "Shooting in goals and setting up others. He's very difficult to defend due to his pace and how fast he can run deep."

If that wasn't enough, he's confident on set-pieces too, as shown when he stepped up to convert a penalty in the 19th minute away to Beşiktaş midweek in the UEFA Europa League.

The Eintracht boss puts it best. Marmoush is a defender's nightmare these days. No wonder he's the Eagles' indispensable Pharaoh.

Record-breaking start

He's making his case to be the main man at Deutsche Bank Park week in, week out. With eight goals in his first six Bundesliga games, he overtook Harry Kane as the league's top scorer. Not only that, he is also Eintracht's first ever player to score eight goals at this stage of a Bundesliga season. 

Marmoush has evolved into a high-volume shooter at Eintracht. The former Stuttgart man has always had a clean strike, and a glance at his Bundesliga goalreel will show you exactly that. That volume shooting combined with his ability to arrive into dangerous areas into the box is evidenced in his non-penalty Expected Goals (npxG) per 90 minutes rate of 0.59. 

When you can claim to have shot more (27) than the likes of Deniz Undav (22) and Victor Boniface (24), Marmoush is the forward to be extra wary of. Especially on the counter-attack, which is a strength of Eintracht's, the Egypt international has already struck twice, more than anyone in the Bundesliga.