Marked for Marcel Trimmel
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match26 Aug 2026
Admira Wacker ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Mattersburg
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Mattersburg are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Michael Lang 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Andreas Prass goes
Grodig paid $120.0K 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Sturm Graz left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marco Knaller, and the manager let it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Mattersburg will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Admira Wacker, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Marcel Trimmel has come up in conversations Admira Wacker were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Xaver Grillitsch falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Dominik Onisiwo did the work nobody counts — 6.74
13 combined actions and 6.74. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was David Laimer’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Admira Wacker.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.93. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Player ratings24 Aug 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Grodig are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Admira Wacker will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
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Crisis
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Xaver Grillitsch 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Xaver Posch falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Markus Arnautovic and Admira Wacker agree another 3 years.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
Grodig come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Admira Wacker did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Lukas Brandt has left for SC Freiburg in a $3.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maximilian Lazaro commits to Admira Wacker for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Xaver Grillitsch 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 12 actions, 6.65, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thomas Ulmer, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Xaver Posch falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match8 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.