MOL Vidi FC will entertain Ujpest FC on Wednesday evening in what will be the first ever NB I league game at the newly rebuilt stadium.
Ujpest FC arrive for this match having won their last two games and sit in 5th place in the OTP league. The lilacs lost against MTK but have since picked up wins against Honved and most recently Kisvarda in what was played in grey and foggy conditions. The latter game saw Soma Novothny, who was almost top goalscorer for the 2017-18 season, and had uptil that game scored just once, find the back of the net 3 times. There are four other players with 2 goals each to their names.
Girogi Beridze has 3 assists and he joined the Budapest club in the Summer. Left back Dzenan Burekovic has provided 4 assists. Winger Obinna has played in all of the games so far and midfielder Szankovics has only missed 26 minutes of the season. The transfermarkt.de website values their squad at 6,8 million euros, which is the seventh highest in the first division. Novothny has the highest value with a 600,000€ price tag. Recent signing from Vasas is Kire Riszevski and he is valued at half a million euros. Ujpest keeper is Filip Pakovics, who was a member of Vidi’s 2015 title winning squad. Another player with former Vidi links is defender David Mohl, who was a member of the 2006 Hungarian cup winning side. Donat Zsoter came through the youth system. Manager Nebojsa Vignjevics has no players missing through suspension, but Krisztian Simon has not been available to play since March. InStat was unable to analyse the game at Kisvarda due to fog, but Boban Nikolov’s fellow countryman, Kire Ristevski has the highest score with 266. Closely behind are Lutauszki on 257 and Szankovic with 254. Obinna also has a high scoring rate.
Author: David Rechnitzer