After few seasons of ups and downs, even playing in the second level of Hungarian football back in season 2011/12, MTK finally reached the European Cups ticket in previous season, after six years of absenteeism in European Cups. They ended the previous season being on third position, being relatively safe and taking the position quite deservedly.
Second placed Ferencvaros ended with seven points more, while fifth placed Paks had six points less, while the champions from Videoton had fourteen points more – but the title was never a goal for them as the team has lowered their ambitions since few years ago when they experienced relegation due to money issues. The team is surely one of those that prefer to play as offensive as possible for European standards, with two offensive players being their best part of the team – experienced midfielder and team captain Joszef Kanta (235 matches, 96 goals for MTK) and striker Sandor Torghelle (20 matches, 10 goals for MTK last season). Out of more notable friendly matches, Hungarians have won over Romanian side Botosani 1:0, but also lost to Kukesi 3:1 ten days ago.
Vojvodina, on the other side, finished the previous season at fourth position in Serbian league which was enough for them to secure teh Europa League ticket. However, their weren’t in an easy position during the season, especially not in the second part, as the team secured their European exit with four consecutive victories in the end of the season only.
The team is once again made of mostly very young and talented players, thuss any kind of title race was generally out of the question for them in previous season – budget got weaker and it was normal to turn to their kids from academy. This season however, those younger players are more mature for one year, while surprisingly the club’s management still didn’t sell their best players and if they continue being together – Vojvodina could easily have much better season than the previous one. Ten days ago, they had a friendly game against Mladost Lucani and only drew 1:1. Only injury worry for the visiting team will be absence of experienced central and team captain Nino Pekaric.
Generally, I expect here much more open game than the current odds show us. Hungarian clubs are well known for their open and attacking style, while Vojvodina seems to be quite inexperienced team for European Cups and even if they take the lead, they probably won’t be able to hold up that easily and should also concede. Both teams to score and over goals are my first choice here, as I strongly believe that the chances for over are well above 50%.
Bet: Over 2.25 goals @ 1.93
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