OTP Bank Liga 2023/2024

122-minute match with useful experience: DVSC-Cracovia 3-3

After the 1-0 victory against the Romanian Ploiesti, DVSC played another preparation match in the Turkish training camp on Tuesday. The opponent of Loki was Cracovia, playing in the Polish first division, and by mutual agreement between the two clubs, the match lasted 2×45+30 minutes. Due to injury, Brandon Domingues and Oleksandr Romanchuk were out but the others were ready to show themselves.

At the very beginning of the match, in the strongly windy and rainy weather, there were no major opportunities. The Polish team attempted shots from a distance, while Donát Bárány tried to make a header from close-range but the goals were not genuinely threatened. Our team led several attacks, we were dominating, and in the 10th minute, we took the lead at the end of a great action. Balázs Dzsudzsák passed the ball to Nimród Baranyai, who scored from from 9 meters (1-0).

Later on, Loki still controlled the game and played well occasionally. However, in the 24th minute, after a lost ball, Cracovia managed to equalize with a deflected shot by Rakoczy (1-1). Moreover, in the 39th minute, the Polish team scored again, when Makuch took the ball past Balázs Megyeri and capitalized on the one-on-one opportunity (1-2). No more goals were scored until the first break.

In the second half, both teams created some smaller and bigger chances. In the 57th minute, for example, Botond Vajda shot wide of the goal. At that time, the game was balanced, and during the final minutes of the second half, DVSC pressed their opponent but could not manage to equalize.

During the extra 30 minutes, it was mainly our team who possessed the ball and created several huge chances. The equalizer goal came in the 114th minute: after a beautiful attack, the young Tamás Batai scored from close-range (2-2). However, Cracovia had an answer to that too, when Smiglewski shot the ball into the net (2-3). The third DVSC goal came during the extra time, when Zsombor Bévárdi gave a nice pass to Tamás Batai, who converted it with one-touch (3-3). Thus, the score stayed a draw. Loki will play again on Saturday (against the South African TS Galaxy) and Sunday (against the Slovenian Ljubljana).

Preparation match, 2×45+30 minutes.

DVSC-Cracovia (Polish) 3-3 (1-2, 1-2).

DVSC in the first 60 minutes: Megyeri – Baranyai, Lagator, Pellumbi, Ferenczi – Szuhodovszki, Loncar – Szécsi, Dzsudzsák (Vajda, 46.), Joao Oliveira – Bárány.

DVSC in the second 60 minutes: Erdélyi – Kusnyir, Dreskovic, Mojzis, Manrique – Ojediran, Tuboly – Bévárdi, Vajda, Bódi (Kyziridis, 91.) – Batai. Head coach: Srdjan Blagojevic.

Goal: Baranyai (10.), Batai (114., 122.), as well as Rakoczy (24.), Makuch (39.), Smiglewski (115.).