Index – Sports – We beat the Turks, we reached the league of star teams

“Of all the irrelevant things, football is by far the most important,” II once said. Pope John Paul, and what reason was he. Well, paraphrasing the saying above, the League of Nations is by far the most important of all irrelevant series. Because while many believe, and are even smart, even professionals, that this difficult-to-understand form of competition makes no sense, we just pointed out in today’s article how well a decent result, specifically Division B 3, can still benefit our national team. winning your group. All that was needed was to score more points against the Turks at the Puskás Arena on Wednesday night than the Russians in Belgrade against the Serbs at the same time.

Unfortunately, Marco Rossi had to give up Dominik Szoboszlai after Péter Gulácsi, Willi Orbán, Ádám Szalai, Roland Sallai for various reasons, which is why at least five of the eleven theoretically strongest starters were missing Wednesday night at the Puskás Arena . It is a small consolation that Senol Günes, the legendary federal captain of the Turks, who led the crescents to my bronze medal at the World Championship in 2002, was also forced to lack several of his key players.

When the compilation of the Hungarian national team appeared on the MLSZ Twitter channel around the eighth quarter, we were able to state that the scorer of the tying goal against Iceland, Loic Nego, was placed first in the starting eleven, which was painted as follows : Dibusz – Fiola, Lang, Szalai Attila – Nego, Sigér, Á. Nagy, Squid, Ant – Nikolics, Book. Marco Rossi will again be replaced by Zoltán Gera, and Giovanni Costantino will return to staff as he produced two negative coronavirus tests 48 hours apart. The match was judged by a Slovak referee, Directed by Ivan Kruzliak.

The Turks stood up like this: Günök – Dangaré, Demiral, Kabak, Erkin – Tufan, Tekdemir – Can Kahveci, Calhanoglu, Karaman – Tosun. Four of the starting eleven players were born in Germany, and most play for the Basaksehir who played the other 2–They beat Manchester United by 1 in the group stage of the Champions League. The Turks came to Puskás Arena on a fantastic streak, losing just one of their last thirteen matches.

The match started at a furious pace, the first event being Calhanoglu’s 30-meter free kick, with the ball from Milan bomber Dibusz holding with less uncertainty but catching. For us, the right wing was dangerous, especially through the agile Nego. Squid tried in the 10th minute, but his shot dodged the upper left corner. On the other hand, the good news arrived: with the Radonjics goal, the Serbs took the lead in Belgrade against the Russians, which opened the way to the leadership of our group.

After three Hungarian “near misses”, in the 25th minute, Nego ran down the right wing, with Bookes just a penny behind. There was no death rhythm, we played with slight superiority. While the Serbs scored another goal, Jovics was successful. In the 39th minute, Karaman was weakly shot in the chest by Dibusz. In the 41st minute, due to Fiola’s clumsiness, Tufan got into a huge position but opened a hole eight meters from our goal. Then the forty-five minutes passed very slowly, down there, and in Belgrade it is already 4–The leading Serbs led to 0.

During the break, Kalmár was replaced by Cseri, the accountant Kevin Varga. In the 54th minute we almost set the goal before our goal, finally Szalai blocked Tosun’s shot. And when we least expected it, we got the upper hand! Kevin Varga swung at the right link, his shot was cut off from the right post,

In the 65th minute, Gyurcs came in for Nikolics. The Hungarian team was resurrected, in the 70th minute Vagra Kevin put Negó in position after a good action, the latter’s crooked shot barely passed him. Then came the great moment for Dibus: Nego went to the wrong place, Calhanoglu threw a huge bomb from 13 meters towards the goal, Dibusz defended with tremendous bravado. In the 73rd minute, Holender took the field in place of Ant, and in the 89th minute, Negot Botka replaced him.

With this, we achieved the group victory, which brought us closer to the possibility of a future qualifier for the World Cup and the European Championship, not to mention that in the next Nations League competition we will be able to receive some of the best in the Puskás Arena national teams of the continent.

Nations League, Division B, Group 3: Hungary-Turkey 2–0 (0–0), Puskás Arena.
Goal: Sigér (57 °), Varga K. (95 °)
In the other group match: Serbia-Russia 5-0.

The final result of the group: 1. Hungary 11, 2. Russia 8, 3. Serbia 6. 4. Turkey 6,