Marked for Lukas Haselmayr
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
10 matches without a win for Rapid Wien II
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Rapid Wien II are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Amīn-Elias Gröller is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Amīn-Elias Gröller was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match5 Dec 2026
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Rapid Wien II can tell you which week it ends in.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Daris Đezić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Market7 Dec 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Lukas Haselmayr has his answer from Rapid Wien II; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
A mark of 7.03, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match30 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Rapid Wien II
Position 16 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Rapid Wien II's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Rapid Wien II has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Amīn-Elias Gröller 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.
Match30 Nov 2026
Half the programme played, position 16, 8 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Markus Wimmer was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Rapid Wien II dressing room was either.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Rapid Wien II training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Omar Badarneh 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Manuel Fellner
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match28 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for Rapid Wien II?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Stripfing? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match2 Nov 2026
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Rapid Wien II
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Rapid Wien II are no longer polite ones.
Match31 Oct 2026
First Vienna left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
The neighbours are next for Rapid Wien II
Nothing about the week ahead is ordinary. FC Liefering on Saturday, a town that has already started talking about it, and a dressing room that does not need telling what it means.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Markus Wimmer to a room that had heard them before.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Daris Đezić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Daniel Nunoo named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Daniel Nunoo is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Kenan Muharemović has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑3 to Hertha Wels, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Philipp Moizi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Markus Wimmer after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A Rapid Wien II teenager takes the young player award
Lorenz Szladits is 19, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad21 Sep 2026
At 21 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Rapid Wien II have a decision that made itself.