The Mattersburg Sentinel
Market7 Sep 2026
Christoph Laimer hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mattersburg can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Austria Wien come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Mattersburg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match7 Sep 2026
Every point is an argument now for Mattersburg
Position 8 and 5 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Mattersburg
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Mattersburg are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Mattersburg
Wolfgang Trimmel 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 Sep 2026
Mattersburg come up short against Wolfsberger AC
Wolfsberger AC left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Peter Lienhart runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Philipp Erhardt
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Martin Dietrich conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Dinamo Moscow will make the call about Martin Dietrich this week. Mattersburg have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
In brief
- Squad Mattersburg lose Michael Lienhart
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Wolfgang Trimmel
- Market Dmytro Bogdanov arrives on loan