First game in charge-first win. And it is against an opposition from the top division – Szeged 2011. We couldn’t have wished for a better start. Just 3 minutes into the game, a cross from Szabo found unmarked Szini in the penalty area. An easy shot followed and we were 1:0 up. In the 15
th minute, wonderful through ball from midfield reached Balasz, who made It 2:0. After that, both teams had chances to score, but it was a terrible mistake in our defense, to make a difference. Olah gifted the ball to their striker into our penalty area, and he didn’t miss-2:1 in 89
th minute. But that was about all-more or less deserved win in our first friendly.
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The second friendly is also against a team from the top league. This time it went a bit worse. They were cruising, we barely left our field and it was a matter of time for a goal to come. In the 21
st minute Sidibe found space in our defense and managed to open up the score- 0:1 for the bad guys.
On the half time I was a bit harsh to the guys and made some subs, but it seemed to work. Lovely ball from Toth found Szini in a good position, just a minute inside the second half. The young striker didn’t need an invitation and scored, to put us back on level terms 1:1.
It seemed that we have found our spark, but it was quickly extinguished. We couldn’t cope with a corner, the ball was given back to Horvath on the edge of the penalty area, and he blasted it into the top corner- 1:2.
We tried to get ourselves back in the game, but instead we were caught on a counter attack and Bodi scored in the 88
th minute for 1:3.
Just a minute later, Balasz with great individual effort pulled one back- 2:3. He had another chance to earn us prestigious draw, but it wasn’t meant to be. Still, a spirited defeat, against a higher level opposition, it has to count for something.
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The third friendly was our first test against weaker team-Maglod. I don’t know in how many games in the league we will be clear favorites, but wanted to check how the players will perform in such game.
And we started well. In just 15 minutes, Szini picked another long ball from midfield and made their keeper helpless- 1:0.
It seemed that the guys thought the game is over. We were nowhere near as dominant, as I expected to be. Still, in the 70
th minute we managed to make the win a little more convincing, with Illes picking up the ball from not well cleared corner and scoring for 2:0. The game was closed and won, but it wasn’t top performance by any means.
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Another game versus weaker opposition followed-this time Szentlorinc SE.
And I thought we weren’t dominant in the previous game…………There may have been worse first halves in football, but not many and not by far. I was angry at the half time, shouted at the boys to show some passion in the second. It didn’t happen for the first 10 minutes. And every single one was subbed in the 56
th.
That seemed to work though, just 4 minutes later Kollega hit a rebound from the post, to make it 1:0. In the 73
rd Bardi capitalized magnificent cross from the fullback to make it 2:0.
And just when I was about to think that the game is done, they were back into it-Laver was left alone on the edge of our penalty area and scored with ease-2:1.
Still, we managed to finish the game without further trouble, but again, not convincing at all.
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So, it comes the day-the first competitive game of the season. We are hosting Bekescaba 1912-recently relegated team, which is slight favorite against us.
The first half was even, without many chances in front of both goals. Still, in the stoppage time Bonfiert was left unmarked in the penalty area and scored with nice volley for 1:0.
Not much changed in the second half, only this time they were the ones to score-71 minutes into the game and Bagi was left with time and space to make a rebound on his saved shot-1:1. But this wasn’t the end. Nice pass from their midfield sliced our defense and found Szilagy, who made it 1:2 in the 80
th minute.
We gave it everything to the end of the game, but alas, no luck on our side. First home game of the season is lost.
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July was a month, in which we were busy on the market too. Four players left, the only one I wasn’t keen on losing was Gulyas, but the offer was too good to turn down and he wanted a move, so I didn’t have much choice there.
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He and the others were replaced by not worse players on a free transfers, so at the end of the day, we made some decent busyness.
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Also, you may recognize my new coach:
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The fixtures recap closes the month of July. Let's hope that August will be better and we will step on our feet in the league and the cup.
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