On Sunday evening, DVSC clashed with the second-division Békéscsaba away for a spot among the top 32 in the MOL Hungarian Cup. It was the first competitive match of the new coaching staff, led by Csaba Máté. The head coach could not on Erik Kusnyir and Thor Úlfarsson, who were still doing the rehabilitation. Due to injury and disease, Bence Batik, Botond Vajda and Brandon Domingues were also out of the squad. Our team faced the battle on the heavy pitch with the support of several hundred Debrecen fans.

At the beginning of the match, Loki took control of the game and in the 3^rd minute, Balázs Dzsudzsák found himself in a scoring position, but the ball bounced in front of him, so he couldn’t strike it well. In the 5^th minute, Balázs Megyeri made a brilliant save to deny a close-range header. Then, DVSC took the lead! After Balázs Dzsudzsák’s corner-kick in the 10^th minute, there was some turmoil, but Donát Bárány was alert and scored from 6 meters (0-1).

Our team maintained the dominance in the following minutes as well. In the 18^th minute, Márk Szécsi shot just wide off the goal, just like Donát Bárány did not long after that. However, in the 26^th minute, Balázs Dzsudzsák didn’t miss the target: he scored a beautiful free-kick goal into the left side of the net from 25 meters and thus, doubled the advantage of Loki (0-2). After that, the game was more about duels and no further goals were scored until the break.

The second half started with Donát Bárány’s shot, which was saved by Póser. The home team also tried create some opportunities, but Loki controlled the game. In the 54^th minute, Donát Bárány could have scored, but he missed the target from close-range. Nevertheless, in the 56^th minute, he didn’t miss the opportunity! Our striker arrived in the perfect moment to meet a cross from the left side and headed the ball into the net from the edge of the six-yard box (0-3). Thus, the qualification of DVSC to the next round was decided, but our team didn’t stop attacking. During one of our attacks, Dominik Kocsis was fouled inside the box. In the 64^th minute, Donát Bárány converted the penalty and scored a hat-trick (0-4).

Soma Szuhodovszki and Victor Braga came on as substitute for the final minutes. Not long after, Neven Djurasek, Yacouba Silue and Arandjel Stojkovic also came on. DVSC confidently won and went through in the cup. The next match will be against Nyíregyháza next Saturday in the championship.

According to the coach

Sándor Csató: Congratulations to Debrecen. We did our best, but we need to improve our defence and be more effective in converting our chances.

Csaba Máté: I’m really happy for the victory. Most of the things on the pitch happened according to our will. We wanted to create chances and score goals, and we succeeded in doing so.

Mol Hungarian Cup, round 3.

Békéscsaba-DVSC 0-4 (0-2).

Békéscsaba, 2500 spectators. Referee: Bogár G.

Békéscsaba: Póser – Komáromi (Maronyai, 65.), Kovács G., Szabó B., Tóth M., Vólent (Sármány, 58.), Szatmári (Pelles, 58.), Mikló, Kuzma, Albert, Czékus (Zádori, 76.). Head coach: Csató Sándor.

DVSC: Megyeri – Kocsis G., Dreskovic (Stojkovic, 80.), Pellumbi, Ferenczi – Lagator (Victor Braga, 67.), Dzsudzsák (Djurasek, 77.) – Kocsis D. (Szuhodovszki, 67.), Szűcs T., Szécsi – Bárány (Silue, 77.). Head coach: Máté Csaba.

Goal: Bárány (10., 56., 64.-from penalty)), Dzsudzsák (26.).

Yellow card: Szatmári (25.), Tóth M. (60.), Mikló (74.) as well as Lagator (24.).