An unbeaten Honved side since September visit the MOL Arena Sosto on Sunday

The OTP league season continues with a home game against third in the table Honved.

Budapest Honved last tasted defeat in a competitive game on the 29th September. The Kispest side have gone on to remain unbeaten in 6 league and one Hungarian cup match. They have come off the pitch in three of those matches as winners against DVTK, Kisvarda and Haladas, who occupy the bottom three places. They have 28 points, which is the same amount as Vidi and sit in third place in the league table. It is interesting to note that their top goalscorer is Danilo with 6 goals, with Filip Holender scoring five times, which includes three in the last three.  These two lead the Canadian table with Kukoc and Kamber just behind with 4 points. The squad is valued by transfermarkt.de at 7.18 million euros and that includes Daniel Gazdag who is valued at 600,000€. He has already been called up to the Hungarian national team. Patrik Hidi has returned from his period abroad and has a 500,000€ price tag. Their squad includes former Vidi player Tibor Heffler, who was part of the title winning squad of 2015. Others to have played for Vidi are Zsolt Poloskei and Patrik Tischler. The Honved manager is Attila Supka and he has also played for this club in the past. InStat has keeper David Grof with the most points in the squad. He is also the keeper with the highest score in the NB I with 255. International player Botond Barath is on 245 and third is Hidi with 244.

Players to have made the team of the week are Gergo Nagy, David Grof (4 times), Krisztian Vadocz, Tibor Heffler, Daniel Gazdag, Patrik Hidi and Filip Holender. There will be no players missing through suspension for the Kispest side. However, out injured include summer arrival Eke Uzoma, who suffered an injury in a league match against Vidi. Istvan Deak has not played this season while Gergo Nagy was forced to miss games due to an injury. He did come on as a substitute against Mezokovesd. Zsolt Poloskei is recovering and is playing for their second team.

Author: David Rechnitzer

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