The Mattersburg Sentinel
Match14 Aug 2027
Cruel end for Grodig as Mattersburg pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Mattersburg scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Paul Reverson keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mattersburg may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Dominik Wober out for 44 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mattersburg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
No sign of nerves from Marko Trimmel at 20 — 8.53
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Marko Trimmel did not need any: 8.53, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Wolfgang Hinteregger
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Mattersburg
Michael Lang 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cheveyo Tsawa 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.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Mattersburg supporters have found a favourite in Marko Trimmel
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Marko Trimmel has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match14 Aug 2027
Mattersburg get the job done against Grodig
A 2‑0 win over Grodig, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Alexander Prass
- Player ratings Lukas Lindner ran the game
- Market Michael Arnautovic leaves for nothing