Niko Kovac’s position as Wolfsburg coach is not under threat despite a latest setback on Saturday in the form of a 1-0 Bundesliga home defeat against Freiburg. Wolfsburg sporting managing director Marcel Schäfer said that the view of club leaders has not changed. “We are in a brutally difficult phase. I don’t want to make it any better than it is. But I have the feeling that we can get through it together,” Schäfer said. The 2009 champions have won only one of their last eight league matches and are seven points off the European berths. They also went out of the German Cup in mid-week. Former …