Kodro strikes twice on his debut to help defeat MTK

In match 5 of the OTP Bank Liga, MTK visited the MOL Arena Sóstó, in what was the 52nd match between the two teams in Székesfehérvár. This time, head coach Imre Szabics chose the starting line-up: Kovácsik - Kojnok, Rus, Musliu, Heister - Petryak, Szendrei, Makarenko, Dárdai - Nikolic, Zivzivadze.

The 4th minute brought the first Vidi chance, Petryak sending in low cross from the left, and Nikolic shot from 14 meters, but Mijatovic saved. In the 10th minute we took the lead, or at least we thought we did for two minutes: a lovely attack, Petryak releasing Heister on the wing, who crossed the ball low into the middle, and Nikolic struck the ball into the net from close range, but after VAR, referee Pintér disallowed the goal for a offside.

In the 15th minute, Zivzivadze tried a shot from the corner of the penalty area, but the ball was deflected wide. Seven minutes later, Petryak curled a superb cross from the left for Dárdai, who arrived in the middle, but Mijatovic saved the header. In the 25th minute the visitors had their first chance. Weir fired a sharp centre from the right, Miovski narrowly sent his effort wide. In the 34th minute, Kojnok's cross was cleared, Zivzivadze got the ball and laid it off to Hesiter, with our left back firing in a left-footed shot from 20 metres, which Mijatovic saved.

Before the end of the half, MTK came back to life, Grozav controlled a loose ball and shot from 19 meters, , which Kovácsik got a finger too to divert onto the right post. Just when everyone throught the two sides would go into half time with the score level, the blue and whites took the lead in injury time: Weir crossed from the right, Grozav burst in front of goal and headed unmarked into the net (0-1).

In the first quarter of an hour of the second half the game slowed down in pace, we didn't get into a position to create, but at the other end, Miovski's curler had to be saved by Kovácsik. In the 64th minute, Szendrei got hold of the ball and fired a 24-metre shot wide of the bottom left corner.

In the 67th minute, Kodro, who had just come on, was about to flick on a low cross from Rus, but a defender stepped in and Petryak took the resulting corner, which Musliu's connected with but it found Mijatovic. In the 70th minute Kodro hit a left footed shot, which saw Mijatovic making a diving save. Three minutes later we had a penalty: Kovács played in Heister, Varju slipped in and connected with our defender. Kodro confidently hit the penalty to the bottom right, with Mijatovic diving to his left (1-1)!

And in the 79th minute we took the lead: Makarenko crossed from the left and Kodro scored from 6 meters out into the bottom right (2-1)!

Shortly before the end, the visitors appealed for a penalty after Vancsa was brought down inside the penalty area, but referee Csaba Pintér saw no foul and waved play on. In the 3 minute of extra time, Haraszti's free kick was cleared off the line, but the result remained the same. We won 2-1 and moved up to second place in the table, having played one game less than the leaders Kisvárda.