The Mattersburg Sentinel
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Both of them Marcel Lienhart's — 8.38
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.38, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lorenzo Torriani keeps Mattersburg in it on his own
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Stefan Trimmel
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Dejan Ulmer yet — 7.94
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.94 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market10 Aug 2026
Mattersburg turn down Grodig for Guido Grillitsch
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Thomas Franke signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Thomas Franke and Mattersburg agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Marcel Lienhart sends Mattersburg past Grodig
It finished 3‑2, and it was Marcel Lienhart’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Mattersburg.
Market10 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Mattersburg and Philipp Pomer
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
- Market The Heinz Kalajdzic conversation is coming
- Squad No hiding place for Andreas Wober
- Market Philipp Hinteregger told to find a new club