Markus Lazaro

Central Midfielder - Mattersburg
6 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Markus Lazaro

5 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Julian Onisiwo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Mattersburg out of the cup

Admira Wacker ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Christoph Sabitzer 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.

Squad

Martin Rasner 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.

Match

Mattersburg come up short against Sturm Graz

Sturm Graz left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Martin Rasner

“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.

Market

Eyes on Markus Lazaro again

The phone has started ringing about Markus Lazaro again, and this time the name on the line is Young Boys. Mattersburg are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

The Salko Hamzić conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Bukovyna will make the call about Salko Hamzić this week. Mattersburg have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

Mattersburg pick somebody else ahead of Thomas Arnautovic

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

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4 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Konrad Prass

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Florian Köhler at 20 — 8.40

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Florian Köhler did not need any: 8.40, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Raphael Prass 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.

Market

Business is business: Alexander Dragovic goes

Rapid Wien paid $1.2M and Mattersburg took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Tempers go at Mattersburg

Jan Schäfer 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.

Market

Salko Hamzić attracts admirers

The name of Salko Hamzić has come up in conversations Mattersburg were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

Mattersburg see off SV Ried

Three points for Mattersburg, 1‑0 the final word against SV Ried in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Mattersburg and Martin Rasner are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Thomas Arnautovic 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

3 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Florian Köhler, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.68

A mark of 7.68 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Jan Schäfer 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.

Market

Mattersburg sign Salko Hamzić, one for the future

Salko Hamzić is 19, and Mattersburg have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Match

Martin Kalajdzic rescues a point for Mattersburg

It needed Martin Kalajdzic to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Austria Wien, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Julian Onisiwo 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.

Squad

Mattersburg pick somebody else ahead of Thomas Arnautovic

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market

Marko Ulmer is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Mattersburg has been clear about where Marko Ulmer stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

A Mattersburg teenager takes the young player award

Florian Köhler is 20, 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.

Market

The Martin Kalajdzic talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mattersburg know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief