The Mattersburg Sentinel
Squad16 Aug 2027
Dominik Schlager damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 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 ratings16 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near David Ulmer
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match14 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Mattersburg
4 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Markus Baumgartner 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.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Julian Lienhart stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the Mattersburg support went home talking about one name.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolas 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Mattersburg share the spoils with Grodig
A 1‑1 draw with Grodig leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Mattersburg pick somebody else ahead of Idrissa Dioh
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.
Market16 Aug 2027
The Guido Lazaro talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mattersburg know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Heinz Kalajdzic leaves for nothing
- Market Marko Grillitsch leaves for nothing