Videoton travel to relegation threatened Mezokovesd

Vidi can take the next step on the road towards the league title on Saturday. They travel east to Mezokovesd for a game that kicks off at 17:00pm. It will be the second away league game of the week following Wednesday's comfortable 4-1 away win at Honved. 

Saturday's opponents have slipped recently having been closer towards the middle batch of sides in the league, but are now occupying one of the bottom two places. Manager Attila Kuttor, who was manager of the Videoton U17 side earlier this season, now coaches the side. The 4-0 win over them on the 8th November 2017 was followed by Mezokovesd winning four and drawing four of their next eight games. That run was broken in match 24 when Paks beat them, before suffering another 3-0 loss to Ferencvaros. They have collected 26 points to sit in 11th place, but just four points from 7th in the table DVTK.

The squad is valued at around 4,95 million € according to transfermark.de, which is the 11th highest in the NB I. Most valuable player is Mark Koszta, who is valued at 400k € and was most recently with title winning Honved last season. He has scored 9 goals while Slovakian Frano Mlinar is thought to be around 350,000€ and David Hudak on 300,000€. 

It is interesting that after Koszta in terms of goals, the next figure is 3 with Tamas Cseri and Marek Strestik, who left the club in the winter. Cseri has played 25 games this season followed by Koszta and Hudak on 24.

Winter arrivals included Balint Olah from Diosgyőr, Stefan Drazsics from Belgium and keeper Pal Tarczy from Mosonmagyarovar. Istvan Bognar returned from his spell with Ferencvaros while they brought in Patrik Misako on loan from Poland. Cameroon player Fabrice Onana has appeared once on the subs bench. There were also departures with Krnac, Majtan, Brasen, Murai, Sulek, Csirmaz, Veszelinovic, Strestik, Keita and Kobol heading out. Keeper Tomas Tujvel made the move to Videoton in January. Mezokovesd have used 28 different players so far in first division games. Missing will be Pal Lazar and Roland Baracskai. Hudak picked up his 10th yellow card in the recent game with Ferencvaros, so he will miss Saturday's game as will Pal Lazar who has 5 cautions to his name.