Budapest Honved 1:0 Zalaegerszegi TE: NB I Match Result

Match report

Honvéd Edge Past Zalaegerszeg in Tight NB I Encounter

Honvéd secured a narrow 1-0 victory over Zalaegerszeg in the sixth round of NB I on Saturday, with Ádám Szamosi's eighteenth-minute strike proving decisive. The result leaves both sides on three points, though Honvéd have played one fewer game. To be fair, it wasn't the most entertaining afternoon — but that's often how these games go at this stage of the season.

Szamosi found the net early, and by then the visitors had already seen Tiago Penalba booked for a foul in the thirty-first minute. Honvéd kept their shape well after that, working a short corner when they had the opportunity rather than chasing the game. The visitors couldn't find a shot on target all afternoon, and that's the kind of thing that comes back to haunt you when you're chasing a result.

Substitutions started coming in around the hour mark, with Honvéd making the first change when Ákos Zuigeber was replaced by Guilherme Luiz Teixeira at the break. Tamás Somogyi came on for Honvéd in the sixty-eighth minute, and then the hosts made a double change at the seventy-eighth hour — Szamosi himself was replaced by Kevin Kállai. Zalaegerszeg brought on three players in the eighty-seventh minute, but it was too little, too late.

The statistics tell the story of a match where one side dominated without necessarily dominating. Honvéd held 54 per cent possession and registered five shots on target compared to Zalaegerszeg's zero, though they also missed six efforts off target. The visitors made 341 successful passes to Honvéd's 340, but that doesn't mean much when you can't get a shot on goal. Honvéd completed 421 passes in total against 414 for the visitors.

Honvéd sit eleventh with four games played, while Zalaegerszeg are twelfth after five matches. Both teams have three points, but the gap in games played means Honvéd are technically ahead in the standings. The host side's recent form has been uneven — they drew twice and lost once in their last four before this win — while Zalaegerszeg have only managed one victory from five outings. The table goes out of the window in these games, but consistency will matter eventually.

Prepared from match data

Key numbers

Possession, % 54 – 46

Shots on target 5 – 0

Shots off target 6 – 5

Corners 5 – 6

⚽ 18' Ádám Szamosi — Goal 🟨 31' Tiago Penalba — Yellow card ⇄ 45' Ákos Zuigeber — Substitution ⇄ 45' Guilherme Luiz Teixeira — Substitution ⇄ 68' Tamás Somogyi — Substitution ⇄ 75' Bence Babos — Substitution ⇄ 78' Ádám Szamosi — Substitution ⇄ 78' Kevin Kállai — Substitution ⇄ 86' Deian Boldor — Substitution ⇄ 87' Maxsuell Alegria — Substitution ⇄ 87' Tiago Penalba — Substitution ⇄ 87' András Mátyás Csonka — Substitution

Match events

18' 1:0 Budapest Honved Goal Ádám Szamosi assist: Csontos Dominik Zoltan
31' 1:0 Zalaegerszegi TE Yellow card Tiago Penalba
45' 1:0 Budapest Honved Substitution Ákos Zuigeber off: Patrik Pinte
45' 1:0 Zalaegerszegi TE Substitution Guilherme Luiz Teixeira off: Moises Richards
68' 1:0 Budapest Honved Substitution Tamás Somogyi off: Reda Eddarraj
75' 1:0 Zalaegerszegi TE Substitution Bence Babos off: Arthur Henrique Marques Machado
78' 1:0 Budapest Honved Substitution Ádám Szamosi off: Pablo García Ruiz
78' 1:0 Budapest Honved Substitution Kevin Kállai off: Branko Pauljević
86' 1:0 Budapest Honved Substitution Deian Boldor off: Oleksandr Safronov
87' 1:0 Zalaegerszegi TE Substitution Maxsuell Alegria off: Q. Tchicamboud
87' 1:0 Zalaegerszegi TE Substitution Tiago Penalba off: Diogo Antônio Rodrigues da Silva
87' 1:0 Zalaegerszegi TE Substitution András Mátyás Csonka off: Aiden Harangi

Statistics

54 Possession, % 46

5 Shots on target 0

6 Shots off target 5

5 Corners 6

6 Fouls 7

1 Offsides 3

0 Yellow cards 1

0 Red cards 0

All statistics

4 Blocked shots 4

81 Failed passes 73

0 Goalkeeper saves 3

0.33 Shot accuracy 0

7 Shots from outside the box 6

8 Shots inside the box 3

421 Total passes 414

Match prediction: Budapest Honved — Zalaegerszegi TE

Win: Budapest Honved

Confidence 48%

Reasoning

Хонвед — 11. place, 3 points after 4 games (0 wins, 3 draws, 1 losses)
Залаэгерсег — 12. place, 3 points after 5 games (1 wins, 4 losses)
Хонвед, last 5 games: 0 wins, 3 draws, 2 losses
Залаэгерсег, last 5 games: 1 wins, 4 losses
Head-to-head: 4 games, Хонвед — 3, 1 draws, Залаэгерсег — 0

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