The Stripfing Post
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andreas Junuzovic damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Stefan Alaba scores twice — 8.76
Two goals and a mark of 8.76 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match12 Sep 2026
Stefan Alaba sends Stripfing past St. Pölten
It finished 2‑1, and it was Stefan Alaba’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Stripfing.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
Stripfing supporters have found a favourite in Stefan Alaba
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Stefan Alaba 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Yanis Eisschill stays at Amstetten as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Stripfing will try again when the window opens; Amstetten may not be selling by then.
Market14 Sep 2026
Florian Sabitzer attracts admirers
The name of Florian Sabitzer has come up in conversations Stripfing were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The formation has left Noah Andreas behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Stripfing will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
A satisfied Christoph Alaba
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Christoph Alaba could afford to be generous.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Wolfgang Arnautovic 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.
In brief
- The dugout Stefan Onisiwo gets it from the manager
- Squad Stefan Alaba is the weekend's best young player
- Market Still no ink between Stripfing and Dejan Baumgartner