Puskás Akadémia Pancho Aréna: Puskás vs Újpest OTP Bank Liga pre-match info

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Competition: Hungary OTP Bank Liga
Competition: Fri 04.Aug
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Puskás Akadémia Pancho Aréna (3500 seats)

It's round two of the OTP Bank Liga season and important points to play for. Check out our exhaustive preview of Puskás-Újpest!

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Puskás form and stats

In the previous season, Puskás's league results were 14 wins, 11 draws and 8 losses, results that produced 4th spot in the OTP Bank Liga. In these 33 matches they scored {48 goals} and conceded 42. Appearing as the host team in the previous season Puskás generated 9-3-4 (win-draw-lost) with {24 goals} and 20 conceded.

A good away victory last time out for Puskás, who won 1-0 against Diosgyor (placed 10th).

Before that, Puskás had a home game versus Honved which ended with a victory 2-1.

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 13 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 2 and lost 4.

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Újpest form and stats

Let's have a look at how Újpest performed last season in the OTP Bank Liga: They landed a 8th position in the league table after playing out 11 victories, 8 draws and 14 defeats. In total they scored 42 and conceded {55 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 3 and lost 10 with 10/27 goals scored/conceded.

Impressive finishing from Ljujić and Mack secured the home win 2-1 against MOL Vidi in their previous game.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Debrecen wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.

Újpest are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 11 matches.

Head 2 Head

Puskás have managed a sequence of 4 consecutive games without defeat (2-2-0) when playing Újpest.

Top Goalscorers

PuskásL. Slagveer
L. Slagveer
1 goals
ÚjpestL. Mack
L. Mack
1 goals
ÚjpestM. Ljujić
M. Ljujić
1 goals

Puskás missing players

Újpest missing players

Puskás Újpest
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 0 1
1 0 0 Won W 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
1 0 0 Scored S 0 0 2
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 1
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
6 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 1
6 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 3
4 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
4 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 8
2 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 4
50% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 50%
 
5 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 8
1 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 2
Puskás Last season Újpest
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
33 16   Played P   16 33
14 9   Won W   3 11
11 3   Drew D   3 8
8 4   Lost L   10 14
48 24   Scored S   10 42
42 20   Conceded C   27 55
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   88% 94%
79% 75%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   56% 76%
48% 50%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   38% 55%
24% 19%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   31% 36%
12% 19%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   12% 24%
70% 62%   BTTS BTTS   38% 58%
18% 25%   Clean Sheets C S   31% 24%
12% 12%   Failed to Score F T   44% 24%
 
5.2 6   Corners for (avg) C F   4.2 4.9
4.8 4.5   Corners against (avg) C A   4.8 4.3
2.9 2.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.3 2
6 1   Red cards R C   1 2
 
9.5 11.2   Shots (avg) S (   8.9 8.6
3.9 4.3   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.6 3.8
38% 35%   Goal Efficiency G E   17% 34%
 
8.6 8.8   Shots against (avg) S A   9.4 6.7
3.6 3.9   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.3 3.3

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Debrecen 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
2 Varda SE 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 3
3 Újpest 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
4 Puskás 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
5 MTK 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
6 Paksi SE 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
7 Kecskemeti TE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Ferencvaros 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 MOL Vidi 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
10 Diosgyor 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
11 Mezokovesd-Zsory 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
12 Zalaegerszegi TE 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
Last season 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 33 19 6 8 62 33 16 10 4 2 33 14 17 9 2 6 29 19 29 63
2 Kecskemeti TE 33 15 12 6 48 32 17 9 6 2 31 17 16 6 6 4 17 15 16 57
3 Debrecen 33 15 9 9 52 39 17 9 4 4 28 17 16 6 5 5 24 22 13 54
4 Puskás 33 14 11 8 48 42 16 9 3 4 24 20 17 5 8 4 24 22 6 53
5 Paksi SE 33 14 7 12 57 57 16 8 2 6 24 19 17 6 5 6 33 38 0 49
6 Varda SE 33 10 13 10 43 49 17 6 7 4 24 20 16 4 6 6 19 29 -6 43
7 Mezokovesd-Zsory 33 11 9 13 40 43 17 8 4 5 25 23 16 3 5 8 15 20 -3 42
8 Újpest 33 11 8 14 42 55 17 8 5 4 32 28 16 3 3 10 10 27 -13 41
9 Zalaegerszegi TE 33 10 9 14 37 43 16 6 5 5 17 16 17 4 4 9 20 27 -6 39
10 MOL Vidi 33 8 11 14 38 43 16 7 7 2 27 14 17 1 4 12 11 29 -5 35
11 Honved 33 8 9 16 34 51 16 4 5 7 18 20 17 4 4 9 16 31 -17 33
12 Vasas 33 4 14 15 29 43 17 2 7 8 16 23 16 2 7 7 13 20 -14 26

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.