
Last Wednesday Ferencvaros Budapest played against Djurgarden Stockholm in Budapest in the first qualifying round of the Champions League. Then, the green-white players played dominantly and won 2-0. The next destination for Fradi was Scotland where our team played against the Scottish champion Celtic tonight.
Although we were not the favorites for this game, the players gave all they had for the win: already in the 8th minute, the ball landed at Sigér who launched a huge shot from 20 which became the leading goal for us. This was truly shocking for the home team. We definitely did not have higher ball possession tonight, but aside from a period in the second half, Celtic could not cause continuous and significant danger in front of our goal: they equalized in the 53rd minute and a couple of minutes later hit the bar. After this, we had some counter-attacks and in the 75th minute, we took the lead again. Tokmac left his defender behind and reached the box in a sprint then with a clever flat shot scored for Fradi again. In the remaining minutes, Ferencvaros stood firm against the Celtic attempts and protected well the goal.
The final result remained unchanged: Celtic – Ferencváros 1-2. Fradi goes through to the next round of the Champions League qualifiers. Truly an amazing win.
Champions League, 2nd qualifying round
Celtic-FTC 1-2 (0-1)
Celtic: Barkas – Elhamed (Frimpong, 78.), Jullien, Ajer, Taylor – Brown, McGregor – Forrest (Ajeti, 78.), Christie, Elyounoussi – Ntcham
FTC: Dibusz – Botka, Blazic, Kovacevic, Civic – Sigér, Haratin, Somália – Isael (Boli, 71.), Uzuni (Dvali, 86.), Tokmac (Skvarka, 80.)
Yellow: Elhamed (27.), Haratin (40.), Brown (62.), Blazic (66.)
Goal: Sigér (8.),Tokmac (75.) resp. Christie (17.)
Ferencvaros took a two-goal lead with an excellent performance against Braga in the Europa League.
Five wins in a row, this time beating Nyíregyháza 3-1, our soccer team is back at the top of the table.
Ferencvaros won 5-0 away at Kazincbarcika and can now prepare for the semi-final against ETO FC.
We attacked throughout the match and snatched victory in the dying moments.
We advanced to the UEL round of 16 and will face Portuguese team SC Braga.
Historic international cup success: Ferencvaros is back in the quarterfinals after fifty years!
Ferencvaros continued its excellent run against MTK, this time winning 3-1 in the Fizz League.
The question of advancing will be decided on February 26 in the return leg in Budapest.