The final home league game of the autumn season takes place on Sunday. The top two sides in the OTP league table come face-to-face.
Ferencvaros TC go into the final league game of 2018 with an 8 points lead at the top. This could be cut to 5 points if we manage to beat them today. The green and whites have suffered two defeats this season. Those came against then 9th and 12th placed Puskas Academy (20th October) and at Haladas on the 10th November. They are currently on a three match winning streak having beaten Kisvarda 2-0, Paks 3-0 and most recently Mezokovesd 3-2. Stiker David Lanzafame heads to the goalscoring list after giving FTC the lead in the latter match. His two goals in the game broke a barren run that had gone back two months. He is now on 8 goals going into the winter break. Closely on his heels are Bode and Roland Varga with 6 and 5 goals respectively. The Italian has 12 points in the Canadian table, and Varga is on 11, while summer loan signing from Shakhtar Donetsk with 8 points is Petryak. Ever present this season for Fradi are Gergo Lovrencsics, Denes Dibusz and Miha Blazic, while 36 year old Leandro has played almost every game with the exception of 108 minutes.
Their squad is valued at 16,25 million euros by transfermarkt.de, which is just a slight fraction behind Vidi’s squad, which is valued at 16,3 million euros. Highest valued player is Petryak on 2 million euros, while Lanzafame is close behind on 1,5 million. The Blazic-Gorriaran pairing are next on 1,2 million each. There is also Roland Varga that has a 1 million tag. FTC have no former Vidi players in their squad. They also have no players missing through suspension, although there are injuries including Amadou Moutari who has yet to play a game this season. Stefan Spirovski is a Macedonian international who picked up an injury while on duty with them. Endre Botka has been out since August. Central defensive pair Frimpong and Otigba have recently returned to action after a period out.
Author: David Rechnitzer