The Kapfenberg Herald
Squad22 Feb 2027
A one-man rearguard from Richard Strebinger
There were 13 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Mario Zocher out for 25 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kapfenberg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Max Grüger, 21, steals the show — 7.60
Marked 7.60 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Moritz Berg says Kapfenberg went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Kapfenberg
Richard Strebinger and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Kapfenberg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marlon Morgenstern is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Nathan Butler-Oyedeji runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match20 Feb 2027
Marlon Faß rescues a point for Kapfenberg
It needed Marlon Faß to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Austria Klagenfurt, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
No place for Tjorben Uphoff on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Kapfenberg pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
In brief
- The dugout Markus Prass: “We have to be better”
- The dugout Martin Kreuzriegler knocks on the manager's door
- Market The Albin Berisha talk will not go away