OTP Bank Liga prediction and preview: Honvéd modest favorites to beat Budafoki MTE

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Competition: Hungary OTP Bank Liga
Competition: Sat 13.February
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion (5322 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Honvéd are in the 8th position while the guesting Budafoki MTE worry at 11th.

Insights:
  • Honvéd has the fewest points (8) at home in OTP Bank Liga

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Honvéd and Budafoki MTE.

This is a local derby, usually meaning added tension and importance.

Honvéd are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. Budafoki MTE are fighting to avoid relegation and will work hard for points.

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Honvéd form and stats

Honvéd's struggle is real here at Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion with only 8 points collected from 10 OTP Bank Liga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-5-4. Two draws in a row at home now for Honvéd.

A OTP Bank Liga defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Mezokovesd-Zsory.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Honvéd have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found nine games) they have won four times, drawn two and lost three.

Honvéd have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion with 15 goals in 10 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Honvéd have conceded 15 from these games.

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Budafoki MTE form and stats

There's been little loot from Budafoki MTE's travels as they have only collected 9 points from 10 away games in the OTP Bank Liga. Budafoki MTE only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 3 draws.

A 1-4 defeat away at Paksi SE before that.

As mentioned above, Budafoki was the only team on the pitch versus Femalk-Dunavarsany in their previous game, winning 11-0. This could be a tougher task.

Budafoki are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is five wins, two draws and four defeats. From a total of eleven matches.

Budafoki are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 10 games (in the league). As for defending, Budafoki rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 18 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Honvéd and Budafoki MTE have met before this season: Budafoki MTE - Honvéd 1-2. Head-to-head totals (for the last two meetings): Honvéd won one game, one match ended with a draw and Budafoki MTE has zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / one

Top Goalscorers

HonvédD. Gazdag
D. Gazdag
7 goals
Budafoki MTED. Kovács
D. Kovács
7 goals
HonvédN. Balogh
N. Balogh
6 goals

Honvéd missing players

Budafoki MTE missing players

Honvéd Budafoki MTE
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 3 10 20
5 1 1 Won W 1 2 5
7 5 1 Drew D 1 3 5
8 4 1 Lost L 1 5 10
30 15 8 Scored S 2 10 24
29 15 5 Conceded C 2 18 37
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 90% 95%
75% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 80% 85%
65% 60% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 60% 70%
35% 40% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 30% 35%
15% 10% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 20%
75% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 70% 75%
10% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 10% 5%
25% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 30% 25%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.8 2.6 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 2.6 2.3
1 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
7 6.5 9.3 Shots (avg) S ( 12.3 9.8 8.5
3.5 3.4 5.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 3.8 3.5
43% 44% 47% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 26% 34%
Key stats in OTP Bank Liga this season:
  • Honvéd has the fewest points (8) at home in OTP Bank Liga
  • Honvéd have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Honvéd haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Ferencvaros 20 15 4 1 42 10 10 8 1 1 21 4 10 7 3 0 21 6 32 49
2 MOL Vidi 20 9 6 5 42 23 11 6 4 1 24 8 9 3 2 4 18 15 19 33
3 Puskas 20 10 3 7 26 26 9 5 2 2 12 8 11 5 1 5 14 18 0 33
4 Paksi SE 20 8 5 7 40 37 10 6 1 3 23 12 10 2 4 4 17 25 3 29
5 MTK 20 8 5 7 29 27 10 4 2 4 14 14 10 4 3 3 15 13 2 29
6 Mezokovesd-Zsory 20 8 4 8 21 25 10 6 1 3 16 13 10 2 3 5 5 12 -4 28
7 Varda SE 20 7 7 6 20 24 10 3 4 3 7 10 10 4 3 3 13 14 -4 28
8 Honvéd 20 5 7 8 30 29 10 1 5 4 15 15 10 4 2 4 15 14 1 22
9 Zalaegerszegi TE 20 6 4 10 36 39 10 3 2 5 21 21 10 3 2 5 15 18 -3 22
10 Ujpest 20 6 4 10 25 45 10 3 2 5 11 24 10 3 2 5 14 21 -20 22
11 Budafoki MTE 20 5 5 10 24 37 10 3 2 5 14 19 10 2 3 5 10 18 -13 20
12 Diosgyor 20 5 2 13 23 36 10 4 2 4 17 15 10 1 0 9 6 21 -13 17

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.