Marked for Markus Junuzovic
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match19 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Rapid Wien
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Eduard Löwen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I watch every Rapid Wien game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Neftchi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Đorđe Jovanović is on it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Guido Trimmel chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Markus Junuzovic out for 25 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rapid Wien will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market14 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Yusuf Demir reports back to Rapid Wien with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Eduard Löwen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Rapid Wien
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Florian Posch has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Austria Wien next, which means a week that starts on Monday. Everything else on this page will be forgotten by Saturday; this fixture will not be forgotten for a year.
Match12 Sep 2026
Late, late show earns Rapid Wien a point
Minute 89, against Red Bull Salzburg, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Jannes Horn beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.63, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad7 Sep 2026
33 days out for Markus Junuzovic after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Rapid Wien will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Bendegúz Bolla to Grasshopper has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Rapid Wien with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 21 signed and 5 gone
That is the business done at Rapid Wien until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The clock did what Mattersburg would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Eduard Löwen 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 Rapid Wien this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Altach have kept their man, and Rapid Wien go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Rapid Wien did not have in the autumn.
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Steady
Match29 Aug 2026
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.11 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Markus Junuzovic out for 40 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rapid Wien will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.94 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Rapid Wien have gone to Mattersburg with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$2.2M was the most the club would pay and Sturm Graz were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Serge-Philippe Raux-Yao and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.