OTP Bank Liga preview: Can Puskás edge out victory against MTK?

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Competition: Hungary OTP Bank Liga
Competition: Sun 18.April
Match begins: 13:15 (UTC)
Venue: Puskás Akadémia Pancho Aréna (3500 seats)

2nd position in the OTP Bank Liga table for Puskás so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 5th-placed MTK visits Puskás Akadémia Pancho Aréna.

Insights:
  • Puskás is in the best form (4-1-1)

MTK could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Hungarian Cup game only three sleeps ago.

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Puskás form and stats

29 points is a decent return from 14 OTP Bank Liga games here at Puskás Akadémia Pancho Aréna for Puskás. The data says 9 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. There’s a good atmosphere here at Puskás Akadémia Pancho Aréna after three straight home wins.

Puskás drew their last game, 1-1 away at Ferencvaros (placed 1st). Before that, Puskás had a home game versus Mezokovesd-Zsory which ended with a victory 2-0.

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 Puskás have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found twelve games) they have won four times, drawn three and lost five.

There will be little rest for Puskás after this match as they are travelling to Diosgyor for a OTP Bank Liga game in only three days.

Puskás have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Puskás Akadémia Pancho Aréna with 21 goals in 14 league matches. Puskás are not conceding a lot of goals here at Puskás Akadémia Pancho Aréna in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 13 from 14 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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MTK form and stats

The visitors are W5-D4-L5 on the road this term. That's in the OTP Bank Liga.

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Budafoki MTE in the OTP Bank Liga.

MTK are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, one draw and four defeats. From a total of six matches.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Varda SE in just three days.

MTK find the net regularly in their away games. 20 goals from 14 away fixtures in the league. MTK have conceded 20 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

MTK - Puskás 0-1 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Puskás four wins, zero draws and MTK six victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

PuskásJ. Knežević
J. Knežević
8 goals
MTKS. Schön
S. Schön
8 goals
PuskásA. Mance
A. Mance
7 goals

Puskás missing players

MTK missing players

Puskás MTK
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
28 14 5 Played P 4 14 28
16 9 4 Won W 1 5 10
4 2 1 Drew D 0 4 9
8 3 0 Lost L 3 5 9
40 21 8 Scored S 3 20 39
32 13 3 Conceded C 10 20 36
96% 93% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 89%
71% 71% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 79%
54% 50% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 57% 57%
14% 14% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 43% 39%
11% 14% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 4%
46% 43% 40% BTTS BTTS 50% 43% 50%
43% 50% 60% Clean Sheets C S 0% 36% 32%
14% 14% 20% Failed to Score F T 50% 29% 29%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.4 1.9 1.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.1 2.4
4 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
10.1 9.3 10.2 Shots (avg) S ( 7.2 8.4 9
3.8 3.3 3.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.9 4.1
37% 46% 42% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 37% 34%
Key stats in OTP Bank Liga this season:
  • Puskás have the fewest points from losing position (0) in OTP Bank Liga
  • Puskás is in the best form (4-1-1)

  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 28 19 8 1 60 19 14 11 2 1 29 7 14 8 6 0 31 12 41 65
2 Puskás 28 16 4 8 40 32 14 9 2 3 21 13 14 7 2 5 19 19 8 52
3 MOL Vidi 28 12 8 8 54 32 15 7 5 3 32 15 13 5 3 5 22 17 22 44
4 Paksi SE 28 11 7 10 59 54 14 8 2 4 32 18 14 3 5 6 27 36 5 40
5 MTK 28 10 9 9 39 36 14 5 5 4 19 16 14 5 4 5 20 20 3 39
6 Mezokovesd-Zsory 28 10 8 10 31 35 14 8 2 4 22 17 14 2 6 6 9 18 -4 38
7 Varda SE 28 10 8 10 24 34 13 4 5 4 9 12 15 6 3 6 15 22 -10 38
8 Ujpest 28 10 5 13 37 57 13 6 2 5 17 24 15 4 3 8 20 33 -20 35
9 Honvéd 28 8 9 11 40 39 14 2 6 6 22 23 14 6 3 5 18 16 1 33
10 Zalaegerszegi TE 28 8 5 15 44 51 15 5 3 7 28 26 13 3 2 8 16 25 -7 29
11 Budafoki MTE 28 7 6 15 31 52 14 4 2 8 17 28 14 3 4 7 14 24 -21 27
12 Diosgyor 28 6 5 17 29 47 14 4 5 5 20 21 14 2 0 12 9 26 -18 23

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.