
Last Tuesday Ferencváros won 2-0 over Zalgiris Vilnius in Budapest. Today, Peter Stöger’s team travelled for the second leg on Monday and prepared for a match on artificial turf. This match has been the debut of the young Hungarian talented Dominik Csontos but also the first time starting for Kristoffer Zachariassen.
The match flew in a calm pace with some chances on both ends. Soon before half time, Ryan Mmaee took the lead for Fradi who in the second half first extended the lead from a counter attack, then was very close to actually scoring a hat trick. In extra time the enthusiastic local supporters could celebrate a home goal from a corner situation, then, one minute later, Robert Mak finished the match with a nice individual attack and goal.
With this result, Ferencváros advanced to the next round with a 5-1 aggregate result. In the third qualification round of Champions League, Ferencváros meets Slavia Praha, first in Budapest on August 4th. This is then the third year in a row when Ferencváros will play in the group stage of one of the European Cup series.
Champions League, 2nd round, 2nd leg
ZALGIRIS VILNIUS–FTC 1-3 (0-1)
FTC: Dibusz – Wingo, Blazic (Vécsei, 76.), S. Mmaee, Csontos – Haratin, Somália (Sigér, 57.) – Zachariassen, Tokmac (Zubkov, 69.), Uzuni (Mak, 77.), R. Mmaee
Head coach: Peter Stöger
Zalgiris: Gertmonas – Mikoliunas, Ljubisavljevic, Diaw, Bopesu – Onazi (Kis, 61.), Uzéla, Verbickas – Kyeremeh (Jarusevicius, 87.), Sylvestr (Tadic, 61.), Videmont
Head coach: Vladimir Cheburin
Goals: Pape Diaw (90+3), resp. R. Mmaee (44., 72.), Mak (90+4)
Yellow card: Diaw (28.) resp. Csontos (34.), Sigér (62.)
Ferencváros defeated Viktoria Plzen 2-1 in the second round of the Europa League group stage.
Ferencvaros played a 1-1 draw against DVSC on Saturday during Round 9 of the OTP Bank Liga.
Gómez’s goal sealed the 1-1 draw in Sunday’s closing match of Round 8 of the OTP Bank League.
Fradi kicked off the Europa League group stage with a 3-1 victory at Celtic’s home stadium in Scotland.
Ferencvaros kicked off the cup season with a 7-0 away win against DEAC. Matús Bero scored a hat trick.
Ferencvaros took the lead but ultimately drew 2-2 against Újpest in Round 7 of the OTP Bank Liga.
Ferencváros scored in both halves to earn an 3-0 victory away against ETO FC.
Matús Bero has played for Dutch, Turkish, and German clubs throughout his career.