Two goal victory over the Russian U21 side

Videoton met the Russian U21 national team on Tuesday afternoon in the sun of Marbella. The first friendly of the second winter Spanish training camp saw manager Marko Nikolic name the following side:Tujvel – Nego, Juhász, Fiola, Stopira – Anel Hadzic – Nikolov, Kovács István – Lazovics – Stefan Scsepovics, Marko Scsepovics. 

The first action arrived on 9 minutes when a cross from Nego came off one of the Russian defenders, before finding the head of Marko Scepovic, but it did not require a save from keeper Leschuk. Stefan Scepovic almost found his brother with a ball on 13 minutes, but Chernov intercepted and it went out for a corner. Things livened up after 20 minutes: Konovalov tested Tujvel from inside his half, but the Videoton keeper managed to save it and it went out for a corner. Two minutes later, Danko passed to Nego, who cut in and shot low from 16 meters to find the bottom left corner (1-0).

The Vidi right back was again active on 39 minutes when he took the ball to the goal line, before playing it into the middle for Istvan Kovacs, who aimed for the far corner, but it went just wide. The Russian youngsters then won a free kick from the resulting move, with Tujvel denying a Baker header and the sides went in at the break with Vidi leading by a single goal. 

Marko Nikolic sent out the following side for the second half: Kovácsik – Bolla, Vinícius, Tóth Bence, Tamás – Varga József – Pátkai. Réti – Szabó Bence – Elvir Hadzic, Szabó Bálint. Vidi's 17 year old who came through the youth system got his first chance in the senior side. 

There was 9 minutes on the clock in the second half when Varga shot at goal, but the keeper got down low to save it. Pantaleev powerfully hit a left foot shot that went over the bar moments later. Kovacsik saved a long distance Galavin shot after 71 minutes, and Leschuk also had to work minutes later to deny Elvir Hadzic. Leschuk again saved a shot 5 minutes later after Balint Szabo found Patkai, who shot across goal but the keeper got down to keep that effort out. The second Vidi goal after 81 minutes secured the friendly win: Bence Szabo took an out swinging corner that Vinicius connected with his head to find the near corner (2-0).

The match official blew for full time on 90 minutes and Vidi won the friendly 2-0. The team are next in friendly action on Thursday with a game against FK Krasnodar.