Hungarian Football League – Round 25: Honvéd shock Loki as MTK take second spot – VIDEOS

The MLSZ’s press release said, Debrecen suffered a nightmare first half at home to Honvéd as they went 3-0 down inside the first 38 minutes courtesy of two goals from Márton Eppel and another from Patrick Hidi.

Eppel converted his first in just the fourth minute when he headed the ball into the left side of the goal following a right-wing free-kick. Despite Debrecen’s attacking game, they couldn’t fashion any chances and instead it was Honvéd who scored again in the 26th minute from a corner which the home side had many chances to clear but failed to do, Eppel instead knocking in a rebound after Gergő Nagy’s shot was blocked. Hidi then arrived in the box to slam a left-wing cross into the right side of the goal in the 38th minute to finish the scoring and inflict Debrecen’s home loss of the year upon them.

MTK Budapest took full advantage of Debrecen’s slip-up to leapfrog them into second place in NBI after they beat Haladás 3-1 at their temporary home of Dunaújváros despite falling behind to a 12th minute Roland Ugrai goal, his 11-metre shot finding its way into the net after he’d attempted a number of tricks. MTK equalised soon after though, Thiam’s shot from the edge of the penalty area ending up in the right corner of the net. Ádám Hrepka missed a great chance to hand the home team a deserved lead in the 38th minute but Marek Strestik spared his teammate’s blushes on the hour mark when he arrived to slide Barnabás Bese’s cutback into the net from close range.

Thiam hit the woodwork moments later but Strestik’s second from the penalty spot after Dániel Gera had been fouled wrapped up the game for the capital-city club in the 77th minute. MTK are the only club in NBI with an unbeaten record this springtime and Marek Strestik is one of only three players to have scored three goals so far this year, Debrecen’s Zsolt Horváth and FTC’s Dániel Böde being the others.

Böde it was who struck a brace of goals for Ferencváros in their 4-0 home demolition of Puskás Akadémia, all the damage coming in the last 22 minutes after some spirited resistance from Robert Jarni’s team. Having said that, a needless foul in the box gave Roland Lamah the chance to stroke home Fradi’s first from the penalty spot before Böde scored his first with a header from eight metres moments later. Six minutes from time, András Radó pounced on a loose pass by Attila Fiola inside the area, turned towards goal and was fouled by Ádám Lipcsei, Böde this time stepping up to send the spotkick into the left side of the goal. Radó scored the goal of the game in the last minute of normal time when he surged from the left corner of the area to a more central position and curled the ball into the far top right corner of the net.