The Mattersburg Sentinel
Squad9 Aug 2027
Vincenzo Casella breaks a bone — 37 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market9 Aug 2027
Austria Wien come back empty-handed
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.
Match7 Aug 2027
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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Heinz Hinteregger 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Michael Berger
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Massimo Agostini 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
Honours even between Mattersburg and Rapid Wien
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Florian Schlager
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market9 Aug 2027
The Michael Berger story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Michael Berger signs something — a contract at Mattersburg or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Player ratings A day to forget for Marco Junuzovic
- Market Wolfgang Trimmel leaves for nothing
- Market Marko Lazaro leaves for nothing