Hungarian Football League – Round 9: Diosgyőr pull clear of relegation zone with last-minute winner

Tamás Egerszegi’s added-time winning goal secured a thrilling 3-2 victory for Diosgyőri VTK against Puskás Akadémia and in the process lifted the club from Miskolc well clear of the relegation zone into seventh position in the NBI league table. Elsewhere, there were wins for Debrecen, Ferencváros and Videoton and draws at Paks and Haladás.

A see-saw game in the city of Miskolc saw the home team establish a two-goal lead thanks to Drazen Okuka and Soma Novothny only to squander it in the last ten minutes as Puskás Akadémia hit back through leading goalscorer László Pekar and youngster Donát Zsótér. In the 92nd minute though an almighty meleé ensued in the visitors’ penalty area where Egerszegi was on hand to head the ball in and decide the match in Diosgyőr’s favour.

Current NBI champions Videoton followed Diosgyőr in scoring three goals but this time without reply as they eased to a 3-0 win over ten-man Újpest in Székesfehérvár, Ádám Gyurcsó notching a second-half brace, the first a penalty, before István Kovács added gloss to the scoreline in the 89th minute against an Újpest side which had been reduced to ten men following Jonathan Heris’s dismissal for violent conduct in the 72nd minute when the score was just 1-0.

The team to suffer in terms of league position from Vidi’s win was Vasas who now slip into the relegation zone after Tamás Kulcsár’s 78th-minute winner from 11 metres out helped Debrecen condemn the men from Angyalföld to a sixth defeat of the season. Below Vasas lie only Békéscsaba who suffered a predictable but narrow defeat away at leaders Ferencváros, Dániel Böde continuing his hot streak in front of goal with a strike which means he has scored in eight consecutive league matches, the first person to do this for Fradi since Ferenc ‘Bamba’ Deák in the 1948/49 title-winning season. In 19 league matches in their new stadium, Hungary’s most successful team historically have now kept 14 clean sheets and with this win are now on 27 points, 11 clear of Haladás in second place.