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Our team had a goal ruled out for offside in the second half, and then we finished the match with ten men in a 0-0 draw away at Kecskemét.
After the Conference League, our team also started in the OTP Bank Liga NB I for the 2024/2025 season. In the first round the team travelled to Kecskemét. Tamás Pető made one change in the starting line-up from the win against Sumqayit; Melnyik was replaced by András Huszti at right-back, who was playing his first competitive match for Vidi.
Kecskeméti TE
0-0
Széktói Stadion Kecskemét
Fehérvár FC
Kecskeméti TE
Kersák Roland Attila - Katona Levente, Pálinkás Gergő János, Kovács Barnabás (Májer Milán 66'), Szabó Alex (Nagy Krisztián 90'), Vágó Levente Martin, Belényesi Csaba, Szűcs Kornél, Nikitscher Tamás, Lukács Dániel (Zsótér Donát 66'), Zeke Márió
Fehérvár FC
Tóth Balázs - Huszti András, Nikola Serafimov, Spandler Csaba (Ominger Gergő 88'), Schön Szabolcs - Csongvai Áron, Bedi Bence - Katona Mátyás (Kasper Larsen 61'), Tobias Christensen (Bohdan Melnyik 79'), Pető Milán (Kovács Mátyás 61') - Nejc Gradisar
Bognár Tamás
Tóth II Vencel, Horváth Zoltán, Pintér Csaba
Our head coach named the eleven of Tóth - Huszti, Serafimov, Spandler, Schön - Csongvai, Bedi - Katona, Christensen, Pető - Gradisar in the starting team. Dala, Veszelinov, Melnyik, Simut, Larsen, Lakatos, Ominger, Babos, Kovács B., Kovács M., Stefanelli and Kovács P. were on the bench.
To put it mildly, the teams did not test each other, with the first quarter of an hour being uneventful. In the 15th minute, Márió Zeke's cross was headed towards goal by Pálinkás, but the shot was blocked by our defenders. Two minutes later, the home team's 7 also tried to score, but his header went over. We started the second half with an inaccurate home, which allowed the home side to take a corner: the dangerously curved ball ended up going over everyone's heads. In the 56th minute, a foul was committed against Pető, who returned after a short period of treatment and then broke inside the box with a neat sequence of flicks, the action ended with Bedi's shot and Kersák's save. In the 68th minute, Christensen's left-wing cross was converted into the net by Gradisar. The assistant flagged for offside, which was confirmed by a lengthy VAR review, and the game continued 0-0 with a Kecskemét free kick. In the 81st minute, the ball bounced dangerously in front of our goal, we managed to clear it, but Spandler and Belényesi got into a collision, both players needed medical treatment. Although Spandler returned briefly, he was unable to continue the game. After 10 minutes of injury time, there was a loud atmosphere; as four yellow cards were awarded by the referee after a big scuffle. We could have won the game in the last minute: Schön raced past two defenders and had no power left to shoot accurately. The result was the same, we started the 2024/2025 season with an away point.
In the 22nd minute, Vidi had to wait for their first chance: Schön fired over the goal at the end of a nice attack. In the 25th minute, the most dangerous sequence of the match followed: Zeke's cross bounced off Serafimov and into the path of Pálinkás, whose shot was saved by Tóth. In the 31st minute, a dangerousKecskemét shot was blocked by Huszti.
In the 36th minute, Pető won a ball on the goal line before braking inside the box but his pass to the middle bounced off a defender and the danger was cleared. At the end of the half there were two Vidi corners left, but the score remained the same as the teams went into the break 0-0.
In the 61st minute Tamás Pető made two substitutions, with Mátyás Kovács and Larsen replacing Pető and Katona. Two minutes later, Mátyás Kovács raced to the edge of the box after Christensen's initiative, and his accurate centre was met by Csongvai, who fired over from 11 metres.
In the 86th minute, Huszti tripped his opponent, for which he was immediately sent off by the referee. After the red card, our team defended bravely, first Bedi and then a few seconds later Serafimov blocked a Kecskemét shot.
We will continue our busy start with a home Conference League second leg against Sumqayit on Wednesday, before hosting DVTK on Saturday, also at the Sóstói Stadion.
Author: David Rechnitzer
