DVSC continued the series of away matches at the home of Mezőkövesd on Sunday, which was the 3^rd game of the team within 7 days. Due to injury and illness, Márk Szécsi, József Varga, Alexandros Kyziridis, Brandon Domingues, Alexander Mojzis and Máté Tuboly were missing this time. Among the starting eleven were Botond Vajda and Ádám Bódi too.

A lot of supporters from Debrecen accompanied the team for the game, our players could feel almost like they were playing at home. The match didn’t start well as Cseke took the lead for the home team with an 18-meter long-range shot already in the 4^th minute, blasting the ball into the left side of the goal (1-0). Moreover, the second Mezőkövesd goal came in the 10^th minute, when Cseri shot from 17 meters into the bottom left corner and the ball bounced off the post and went into the net (2-0).

Therefore, Loki faced a great challenge and tried to speed up. In the 17^th minute, Stefan Loncar shot wide of the goal, while in the 21^st minute, Balázs Dzsudzsák hit the crossbar with a 28-meter free-kick. DVSC took over the control and pulled one back in the 25^th minute: after János Ferenczi’s cross, Donát Bárány beautifully headed the ball into the goal from 12 meters (2-1).

After that, we were still dominating but had a problem with the final passes at the end of the first half, so the teams went on a break with Mezőkövesd being in advantage.

Joao Oliveira came on as a substitute for the second half, and Loki tried to put a bigger pressure on the opponent. In the 55^th minute, János Ferenczi shot wide of the goal from a first-touch. There were a lot of inaccuracies in the game, time passed but no dangerous shots happened in front of the home goal. Almost thirty minutes before the end, Zsombor Bévárdi and Christian Manrique came from the bench (later Andrija Majdevic also came on), and then the endgame followed.

During the endgame, Balázs Dzsudzsák had a chance but shot over the goal, then DVSC appeared to be in a numerical superiority after the dismissal of Pillár in the 81^st minute. Yet, we could not equalize and the match ended with a defeat for us.

We will continue on next Sunday against Paks at Nagyerdei Stadium.

According to the coach

Attila Kuttor: The first half was ours, we deserved to be leading. We wanted to defend our advantage after the break and we managed to do that.

Srdjan Blagojevic: We didn’t enter well neither against Puskár nor Győr, and we tried to warn the players about that. However, we didn’t start well this time too. It basically decided the match, and we were missing energy in general.

OTP Bank Liga, round 12.

Mezőkövesd-DVSC 2-1 (2-1).

Mezőkövesd, 2118 spectators. Referee: Csonka B.

Mezőkövesd: Piscitelli – Kállai, Beriashvili, Pillár, Vajda S. – Cseke, Gomis – David Babunski (Lukic, 82.), Cseri (Filip, 57.), Molnár G. (Lehoczky, 74.) – Drazic. Head coach: Kuttor Attila.

DVSC: Megyeri – Kusnyir, Lagator, Romanchuk (Majdevac, 84.), Ferenczi – Ojediran, Loncar (Manrique, 70.) – Vajda B. (Joao Oliveira, 46.), Dzsudzsák, Bódi (Bévárdi, 70.) – Bárány. Head coach: Srdjan Blagojevic.

Goal: Cseke (4.), Cseri (10.), as well as Bárány (25.).

Yellow card: Drazic (2.), Pillár (32., 81.), Gomis (46.), Beriashvili (78.), Filip (87.), as well as Bódi (41.), Vajda B. (45.), Romanchuk (59.), Lagator (67.).

Dismissed: Pillár (81.).