The Mattersburg Sentinel
Squad17 Aug 2026
Michael Prass damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Furkan Demir due for a Mattersburg medical
Everything agreed with Rapid Wien, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Antwoine Hackford turns down Mattersburg
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AFC Wimbledon keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
SV Ried tell Mattersburg: Jonas Mayer is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match15 Aug 2026
Mattersburg come up short against Austria Wien
Austria Wien left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Alexander Lienhart
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dominik Schön 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yefrem Rakov 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The formation has left Pascal Köpke behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Mattersburg will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Market No place for Andreas Hinteregger in the plan
- The dugout No hiding place for Laurenz Orgler