The Mattersburg Sentinel
Squad14 Sep 2026
Konrad Laimer breaks a bone — 58 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Sep 2026
Julian Lainer asks to leave Mattersburg
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Kevin Lindner
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Mattersburg come up short against Admira Wacker
Admira Wacker left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Guido Kalajdzic out for 30 days
The medical room confirms 30 days on the sidelines for Guido Kalajdzic, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Guido Schlager in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mattersburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Off the pace: Julian Junuzovic
A mark of 4.21 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The chances came and went for Martin Fuchs
4 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Markus Arnautovic could have had three
4 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
In brief
- Player ratings David Lazaro could not find anything
- Market Xaver Ilsanker leaves for nothing
- Market Xaver Arnautovic leaves for nothing