Football betting preview: Ferencváros expected to win when Honvéd visit

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Competition: Hungary OTP Bank Liga
Competition: Sat 18.December
Match begins: 13:45 (UTC)
Venue: Groupama Aréna (22000 seats)

2nd place in the OTP Bank Liga table for Ferencváros at present, a competent showing. The home team followers pray for more entertainment as 6th-placed Honvéd visit Groupama Aréna.

Insights:
  • Ferencváros have the fewest conceded goals (12) in OTP Bank Liga
  • Honvéd have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in OTP Bank Liga

There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.

Ferencváros and Honvéd should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Ferencváros form and stats

4-2-2 (win-draw-lost) are the OTP Bank Liga numbers at home for Ferencváros so far this season.

Ferencváros lost their last game at Debrecen (placed 9th) after a 0-2 scoreline.

Before that, Ferencváros had a Europa League home game versus Bayer Leverkusen which ended with a victory 1-0.

Ferencváros are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found twelve matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won ten, drew one and lost one.

Goals decide football matches and Ferencváros are scoring many of them at home; 17 on target from 8 league matches. Ferencváros have conceded 9 in these home matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Honvéd form and stats

3-1-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Honvéd in their OTP Bank Liga matches away.

Honvéd's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Zalaegerszegi TE that finished 2-2. It looked so good for Honvéd vs Zalaegerszegi TE, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 2-2 draw.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Paksi SE with the score of 3-2.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Honvéd played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.

Honvéd have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 16 goals from 8 away matches. For Honvéd, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net. It's worth mentioning that 10 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams have faced each other before in this season, with the match result Honvéd - Ferencváros 0-1 logged in the official records. Data for the former ten meetings involving these two contenders are: seven wins for Ferencváros, two draws and one win for Honvéd. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: eight games.

Top Goalscorers

HonvédN. Lukić
N. Lukić
12 goals
FerencvárosR. Mmaee Nwambeben Kabir
R. Mmaee Nwambeben Kabir
8 goals
FerencvárosM. Uzuni
M. Uzuni
6 goals

Ferencváros missing players

Honvéd missing players

Ferencváros Honvéd
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
15 8 2 Played P 2 8 16
10 4 1 Won W 0 3 6
2 2 0 Drew D 0 1 2
3 2 1 Lost L 2 4 8
31 17 5 Scored S 2 16 30
12 9 3 Conceded C 5 17 31
93% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
80% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 88%
60% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 75% 81%
33% 38% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 62% 56%
13% 25% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 38% 31%
47% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 88% 81%
47% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 6%
13% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 12%
 
6.8 7.1 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5.4 6
3.5 2.8 2 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.9 4.9
2.6 3 4.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 2.2 2.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 5
 
11.4 10.1 11.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 8.5 8.4
4.7 5.1 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.8 3.7
44% 41% 45% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 53% 51%
 
7.2 5.8 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 9.5 9.5 8
3 2.5 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.9 3.9
Key stats in OTP Bank Liga this season:
  • Ferencváros have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Ferencváros have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Ferencváros have the fewest conceded goals (12) in OTP Bank Liga
  • Ferencváros have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in OTP Bank Liga
  • Ferencváros have the most clean sheets (7) in OTP Bank Liga
  • Ferencváros have the the best goal difference (+19) in OTP Bank Liga
  • Ferencváros have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Honvéd have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Honvéd have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in OTP Bank Liga
  • Honvéd haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Varda SE 16 10 3 3 30 16 8 6 1 1 18 7 8 4 2 2 12 9 14 33
2 Ferencváros 15 10 2 3 31 12 8 4 2 2 17 9 7 6 0 1 14 3 19 32
3 Puskas 15 9 3 3 24 17 7 4 1 2 12 10 8 5 2 1 12 7 7 30
4 MOL Vidi 16 7 5 4 22 18 8 6 1 1 14 7 8 1 4 3 8 11 4 26
5 Mezőkövesd-Zsóry 16 6 4 6 19 26 8 3 3 2 10 12 8 3 1 4 9 14 -7 22
6 Honvéd 16 6 2 8 30 31 8 3 1 4 14 14 8 3 1 4 16 17 -1 20
7 Zalaegerszegi TE 16 5 5 6 23 33 8 3 2 3 12 15 8 2 3 3 11 18 -10 20
8 Paksi SE 16 5 3 8 38 35 8 3 2 3 19 18 8 2 1 5 19 17 3 18
9 Debrecen 16 4 5 7 30 29 8 3 3 2 17 12 8 1 2 5 13 17 1 17
10 Ujpest 16 4 5 7 24 28 8 3 2 3 14 14 8 1 3 4 10 14 -4 17
11 MTK 16 4 3 9 12 27 8 3 1 4 6 10 8 1 2 5 6 17 -15 15
12 Gyirmot 16 3 4 9 17 28 8 1 3 4 7 12 8 2 1 5 10 16 -11 13

Read more about OTP Bank Liga

The Nemzeti Bajnokság I (meaning “National Championship I”) is the top level of Hungarian football. Is also known by the sponsorship name OTP Bank Liga, or shortened to NB 1. It was founded in 1901. The present format has twelve teams playing each other three times for a total of 33 fixtures.