The Mattersburg Sentinel
Squad2 Nov 2026
8 saves: Florian Lazaro was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market2 Nov 2026
Marco Weimann 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 Mattersburg can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Patrick Ilsanker keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mattersburg may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Oscar Naasei 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Florian Lazaro 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Mattersburg come up short against Sturm Graz
Sturm Graz left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Filippo Alessio
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The team sheet said everything about Kofi Schulz
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Kofi Schulz.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Thomas Ulmer left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Squad Antwoine Hackford slips down the pecking order
- The dugout Mattersburg pick somebody else ahead of Kofi Schulz
- Market Sergio Rodríguez placed on the list