The Rapid Wien Chronicle
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Rapid Wien
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Rapid Wien are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Jonas Auer runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Marin Leovac
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Rapid Wien will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Nikolaus Wurmbrand gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match31 Oct 2026
Rapid Wien caught on 94 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Sturm Graz scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Market2 Nov 2026
Talks stall between Rapid Wien and Matthias Seidl
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Matthias Seidl
7.89, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Rapid Wien had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
Yusuf Demir has seen enough of Altach
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Rapid Wien, and 11 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Đorđe Jovanović dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Player ratings Marco Tilio gives it away
- Match Rapid Wien and Sturm Graz take a point apiece
- The dugout Đorđe Jovanović knocks on the manager’s door