OTP Bank Liga 2024/2025

Saying farewell to the fans with a victory: DVSC-Fehérvár 1-0

On Sunday evening, Loki played the last match at home against Fehérvár without Erik Kusnyir, Thor Úlfarsson and Jorgo Pellumbi. As usual, the best football player of the season has been chosen and greeted at the beginning of the final home match. This year, the goalkeeper of DVSC, Balázs Megyeri received the Zilahi award, presented by András Zilahi, the son of Géza Zilahi and the management of the club. His brother was Zoltán Zilahi, the former talented player of Loki, who tragically passed away. Congratulations to Balázs Megyeri! Dusan Lagator was also greeted on the occasion of his 50th appearance in the Hungarian first division.

The match started with a minute of silence. János Szűcs, the excellent former defender of Loki, passed away at the age of 67 after a short and serious disease. János Szűcs, famous for his elegant play, was a player of DMVSC with only a brief interruption for nearly a decade, from 1979 to 1988. He had 156 appearances in NB I and NB II in the colours of Loki and scored 7 goals. We will cherish his memory.

The match started at a relatively good pace. In the 6th minute, Balázs Megyeri made a huge save to deny Karamoko’s one-on-one opportunity. As an answer to that, Brandon Domingues shot over the goal from 18 meters in the 11th minute. Not long after, the ball bounced off the bar after Katona’s header and Megyeri had to deny one more shot.

The game was balanced, but in the 24th minute, Botond Vajda took the ball, he shot from a sharp angle but Tóth saved it. In the 30th minute, Schön had an opportunity on the other side of the pitch, but Balázs Megyeri punched the ball away. No goals were scored until the break.

What concerns the beginning of the second half, the game didn’t change much. DVSC had bigger possession, while Fehérvár relied on quick movements. In the 61st minute, the goalkeeper of Fehérvár saved Hamzat Ojediran’s powerful shot. Later, Csongvai tried to convert a free-kick from close-range, but it went wide off the goal.

Stefan Loncar and Márk Szécsi came on as substitutes for the last 20 minutes (Ádám Bódi, Dominik Kocsis and Oleksandr Romanchuk also came on for the endgame). In the 72nd minute, Hamzat Ojediran had one more dangerous shot. At the beginning of the final minutes, in the 79th minute, DVSC took the lead! Following a corner, Brandon Domingues made a cross from the left side, the defenders tried to clear, but Meldin Dreskovic shot the ball into the right corner of the goal from 14 meters (1-0). This goal meant three points for our team, which said farewell to the fans with this victory. Thus, Loki finished in the 5th place and the team will go to Felcsút in the last round of the championship.

According to the coach

Srdjan Blagojevic: It was not an easy match. Mentally it was difficult because we conceded 5 goals last week against FTC and we lost the opportunity to participate in European cups. It was hard to maintain the intensity, but luckily, we managed to do that. Fehérvár is a good team, physically strong, but today we could win due to Balázs Megyeri’s saves and our patience. It was not our best performance, but we won. I would like to say thanks for the support of the fans during the whole season.

Bartosz Grzelak: Congratulations to our opponent. Our performance was very good, it was the best in Debrecen since I’m the coach of Fehérvár. However, this is football, we are disappointed but we must go on!

OTP Bank Liga, round 32.

DVSC-Fehérvár 1-0 (0-0).

Nagyerdei Stadium, 5347 spectators. Referee: Bognár T.

DVSC: Megyeri – Baranyai, Dreskovic, Lagator, Ferenczi – Ojediran, Szuhodovszki (Loncar, 68.) – Vajda (Kocsis, 81.), Dzsudzsák (Romanchuk, 85.) , Domingues (Bódi, 81.) – Bárány (Szécsi, 68.). head coach: Srdjan Blagojevic.

Fehérvár: Tóth B. – Serafimov, Spandler, Gergényi – Bese, Csongvai, Sigér D. (Gradisar, 78.), Schön – Christensen, Karamoko (Pető, 84.), Katona M. (Stefanelli, 68.). Head coach: Bartosz Grzelak.

Goal: Dreskovic (79.).

Yellow card: Lagator (23.), Ferenczi (34.), Vajda (54.), Baranyai (73.), Bódi (93.), Szécsi (94.), Loncar, (96.) as well as Bese (66.).