The Admira Wacker Gazette
Match26 Aug 2026
Admira Wacker through in the cup
A 3‑0 win over Mattersburg, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match29 Aug 2026
Admira Wacker taken apart
0‑3 to Rapid Wien, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Kevin Arnautovic takes the afternoon — 8.35
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kevin Arnautovic provided it, and the 8.35 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Lukas Lindner, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.61
A mark of 7.61 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market31 Aug 2026
Peter Arnautovic hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Admira Wacker can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Kevin Trimmel 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 Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Lukas Lienhart
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Andreas Lienhart runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Andreas Lienhart 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
- Player ratings Armando Colombo in the eights
- Squad Gaëtan Charbonnier gets it from the manager
- Boardroom Inquest at Admira Wacker