The Mattersburg Sentinel
Match7 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Mattersburg
9 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Mattersburg
Gernot Lainer 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
4 matches without a goal for Mattersburg
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Nikola Petković signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nikola Petković commits to Mattersburg for another 3 years.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Sebastian Bauer 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
Mattersburg come up short against Rapid Wien
Rapid Wien left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Lars Winter 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Home is on Rodrigo Dantas's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Mattersburg are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Market9 Aug 2027
Xaver Hinteregger is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Mattersburg has been clear about where Xaver Hinteregger stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Market The clock does Guido Wimmer’s negotiating for him
- Market Julian Arnautovic leaves for nothing
- Market Thomas Onisiwo leaves for nothing