Videoton kicked off the 2011/2012 league season with a home win over Paks
Paks returned to the Sostoi stadium following their great away result in Norway on Thursday evening. However they left empty handed after two goals in each half was enough to keep the three points at home.
Videoton: Tujvel, Brachi, Lipták, Vaskó, Horváth, Sándor, Mitrovic Vasiljevic, (Nikolic, 70.), Szakály D, (Szolnoki, 86.), Alves, (Evandro, 78.), Walter | ||
Friday 22nd July ZTE - Debrecen 0-2 Saturday 23rd July Vasas - Pecs 1-2 Papa - Siofok 2-0 Haladas - Honved 2-4 Sunday 24th July FTC - DVTK 1-1 KTE - Kaposvar 4-0 Videoton - Paks 4-0 | ||
Videoton scored two goals in each half to keep all three points at the Sostoi stadium on Sunday. Paulo Sousa was forced into changes before the match, with Vasko coming in at centre back, while Horvath switched to left back in place of the injured Hector. Walter came in on the left while Szakaly went over to the right wing. Videoton began well taking the match to a tired looking Paks side. Paks had done very well during the week to win 3-0 in Norway, but struggled to cope with the pace of the game. Sandor's deep ball after just four minutes released Vasziljevics, who bent the ball nicely around the stranded Paks keeper. 1-0! Paks, playing in all green struggled to get into the match in the opening 15 minutes, with Vidi doing all of the running. Sandor was playing well alongside Mitrovics in the centre of midfield. The former saw his effort hit the bar after 15 minutes as Vidi continued to press.
OTP Top 6 Debrecen 2 6 Papa 2 6 Győr 2 6 Pecs 2 6 DVTK 2 4 Videoton 1 3 | ||
Walter was finding space down the left hand side and the Spaniard shot over after 22 minutes. Szakaly was also showing trickery with the ball on the right and his final ball in found the keepers hands a couple of minutes later. Paks began to come back into the match on the half hour. However, that changed on 35 minutes with the sending off of Bartha for a challenge on Sandor, who remained on the floor. Vidi made the game safe two minutes later after Alvaro's teasing ball in from the right fell kindly to Alves who made no mistake from close range. 2-0! Videoton's defence were having a fairly comfortable afternoon, but the visitors tried to change that by making two substitutions before half time.
Author: David Rechnitzer