MOL Fehervar FC return to OTP league action at the weekend with a visit to Budapest.
In the 7th round of the OTP Bank League we will face Budapest Honved at the temporary home of the red-blacks, in the New Hidegkuti Nándor Stadium, the match will kick off on Sunday at 17.00.
The Kispest side have played 5 times out of the 6 rounds so far (they will later make up for their match against PAFC), they have lost three times (3-1 away at MTK, 2-1 at home to both Kisvarda, 2-1 and Ujpest). at home). They have also won twice (both by 4-2 scorelines at Diosgyor and Zalaegerszeg), which puts them in tenth place. They have scored 11 goals, and have conceded the same number, their top goalscorer is Daniel Gazdag with 3 goals.
Honved are managed by Tamas Bodog since the summer, Davide Lanzafame, Tonci Kukoc, Amadou Moutari and Patrick Ikenne-King all left the club, with Donat Zsoter, Krisztian Tamas, Norbert Balogh and Botond Barath all arriving.
They were knocked out of the Europa League in the summer after advancing in the first qualifying round against Finnish club Inter Turku, and were then knocked out 2-0 to Swedish team Malmö.
They entered the Hungarian Cup - like us - among the top 128, and won 7-1 at the home of NB III Tiszaujvaros, the next round will see them travel to the County 1st division club Csacsbozsok-Nemesapati.
Last season we played Budapest Honved twice on the MTK pitch, we won 1-0 in the autumn of 2019, and the final result was 1-1 in the spring of 2020.
Author: David Rechnitzer