Paks, who celebrated a cup victory through the week, grew to become the silver medalist of the OTP Financial institution Liga 2023/2024 season after defeating Kisvárda, who have been retiring from the highest flight, 2-1 on the house discipline on the Saturday recreation day of the ultimate spherical.
Paksi FC – Kisvárda Grasp Good 2–1
OTP Financial institution Liga, thirty third spherical:
Paksi FC-Kisvárda Grasp Good 2-1 (1-0)
Paks, v: Andó-Szabó
scorers: Mezei (thirty fourth), Hahn (84th) and Spasic (91st)
yellow card: Szabó B. (fiftieth), Melnyik (thirty eighth), Cipetic (72nd), Matic (78th), Ilievszki (82nd)Fats: Szappanos – Vas, Kinyik, Lenzsér – Ok. Kovács, Mezei (Ok. Horváth, 88.), Vécsei (Hahn, 76.), Haraszti, Silye (B. Kocsis, 88.) – B. Szabó (Ok. Papp, 64.), Könyves (Böde, 64.)
Kisvárda Grasp Good: Kovács M. – Stefan (Cipetic, on break), Lippai, Jovicic (Széles, on break), Körmendi – Melnyik (Osztrovka, 81), Matic – Navratil, Makowski, Camaj (Spasic, 71) – Mesanovic (Ilievszki, 71.)
Earlier than the match, Dániel Böde and János Szabó collectively introduced the Hungarian Cup to the viewers.
The house facet managed the match from the start, the visitors have been ready for an opportunity to counter. There weren’t a lot of these, however after they did, Szappanos was in his place and saved. Paks bought a penalty within the nineteenth minute after Lippai kicked Könyves, who was enjoying contained in the penalty space. The eleventh was scored by the sufferer, however the shot to the decrease proper nook was saved by Marcell Kovács.
What did not work out from the penalty, got here collectively 1 / 4 of an hour later from motion: Mezei pounced on a bouncing ball and scored an excellent purpose from 15 meters for the hosts, who have been nonetheless enjoying within the higher hand. Paks may have doubled their benefit earlier than the break, however Bálint Szabó’s shot went off the crossbar.
After the flip, the image of the sport didn’t change for some time, largely the ball bounced within the space of Kisvárda. After some time, the workforce from Paks handed over the realm to the visitors, who, nonetheless, couldn’t benefit from this, they didn’t pose a risk to the purpose, their pictures have been inaccurate. Approaching the purpose, the house workforce was capable of kick 11 once more after Haraszti was introduced down after a cross from Böde, who was enjoying in his 473rd top-flight match.
This time, within the 79th minute, Hahn was behind the ball, however shot badly excessive. The missed penalty was not avenged, and Hahn even made amends a couple of minutes later, ending the match. Spasic improved within the encore, however this didn’t have an effect on the destiny of the three factors.
The membership from Tolna set the most effective end in its historical past, after the 2011 season it completed second once more and will likely be within the Europa League qualifiers this summer time.
OTP Financial institution League, thirty third (final) spherical:
Mezőkövesd Zsóry FC-MTK Budapest 1–1 (0–1)
Paksi FC-Kisvárda Grasp Good 2–1 (1–0)
Fehérvár FC-VTK Diósgyőr 0–0
Puskás Academy FC-Debreceni VSC 4–1 (2–1)
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