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Crisis
Match21 Nov 2026
13 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Marcel Alaba 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Thomas Franke scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Altach, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Andreas Wober, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hernán Paredes, and the manager let it.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Grodig to sit and watch. I want to come back to Mattersburg and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Mattersburg lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
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Crisis
Match5 Oct 2026
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mattersburg may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match3 Oct 2026
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
7 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Marcel Alaba 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Peter Wober and Mattersburg agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andreas Lazaro 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Crisis
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match26 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
“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.
Match26 Sep 2026
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Marcel Alaba 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 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.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Sturm Graz to sit and watch. I want to come back to Mattersburg and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 7 matches say the rest.