Football Fanats 2014 - The year of World Cup

[CTG]

they're Hungarian

Are they? (6.5/24 is not really convincing, the half is Nemanja Nikolic)

In Györi ETO: 12/27...  still better than a few years ago when our starting eleven was almost Hungarian-free

[CTG]

4 rounds left, it's time to make some predictions...

General statements:
- Only the peasants (DVSC) and ETO have a realistic chance for the title (we need some luck)
- Videoton will go for the silver medal, the other three teams from TOP6 won't be on the podium.
- Videoton will be heavily supported directly/indirectly by the refrees and the little Orbán teams (at the expense of ETO, Ferencváros, Diósgyör and Haladás)
- Since Videoton can't be a champion, Debrecen won't be punished by the refrees.
- Honvéd and Diósgyör are quite corruptible teams

As for me, chances are the following:
Round 27
BUDAPEST HONVÉD - VIDEOTON FC; home victory 15%; draw 35%; guest victory: 50%; expected result: 1-3
MEZÖKÖVESD ZSÓRY FC - FERENCVÁROSI TC 20-35-45; expected result: 0-3
PUSKÁS AKADÉMIA FC - GYÖRI ETO FC 25-35-40 (refrees will help Orbán's lil' team - to help Orbán's main team for the silver medal); expected result: 2-1 (Orbán's son will score from penalty)
DVTK - SZOMBATHELYI HALADÁS 30-40-30; expected result: 1-1
LOMBARD PÁPA TERMÁL FC - DVSC-TEVA 10-25-65; expected result: 1-3

Round 28
FERENCVÁROSI TC - DVTK 35-35-30 (expecting a brutal war on the field); expected result: 3-2
VIDEOTON FC - KAPOSVÁRI RÁKÓCZI FC 80-15-5; expected result: 6-1
DVSC-TEVA - ÚJPEST FC 50-35-15; expected result: 1-0
GYÖRI ETO FC - BUDAPEST HONVÉD 30-40-30 (we don't really like to play against Honvéd...); expected result: 1-2
SZOMBATHELYI HALADÁS - MVM-PAKS 40-40-20; expected result: 1-1

Round 29
PUSKÁS AKADÉMIA FC - DVSC-TEVA 10-25-65; expected result: 1-3
DVTK - PMFC-MATIAS 40-40-20; expected result: 2-0
KAPOSVÁRI RÁKÓCZI FC - GYÖRI ETO FC 20-30-50; expected result: 1-2
SZOMBATHELYI HALADÁS - FERENCVÁROSI TC 25-40-35; expected result: 1-1
MEZÖKÖVESD ZSÓRY FC - VIDEOTON FC 5-10-85 (Orbán's C team will lay down easily); expected result: 0-4

Round 30
PMFC-MATIAS - SZOMBATHELYI HALADÁS 25-40-35; expected result: 0-0
VIDEOTON FC - DVTK 60-30-10; expected result: 2-0
GYÖRI ETO FC - MEZÖKÖVESD ZSÓRY FC 40-40-20 (if the match is tight, refrees won't let us win); expected result: 2-2 (with two penalties for the guests, one of them in the 90+ minute)
DVSC-TEVA - BUDAPEST HONVÉD 55-30-15; expected result: 3-0
FERENCVÁROSI TC - MVM-PAKS 50-30-20; expected result: 0-0

From the above listed predictions:
12 pts for Debrecen and Videoton
8 pts for Ferencváros
4 pts for Györi ETO, Diósgyör and Haladás

Final results:
1 Debrecen 65 pts
2 Videoton 57 pts
3 Györi ETO 54 pts
4 Ferencváros 53 pts

[BonzaiJoe]

- Since Videoton can't be a champion

Why not?

[CTG]

- Since Videoton can't be a champion

Why not?

4 rounds, 8 points... that would be too transparent.

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Important weekend in NB III East! The best four teams is playing against each other!

Létavértes (1st, 57 pts) is playing in Putnok (4th, 47 pts), while Kazincbarcika (2nd, 54 pts) is playing in Debrecen against DVSC-DEAC (3rd, 48 pts).

[CTG]

Congrats to Guardiola for destroying Bayern München's powerful style with the outdated tiki-taka.

1, Bayern is full of physically strong players, being able to run a lot - but less talented is short passes. Why to force this style at a German team?
2, Most of the top teams know the medicine against tiki-taka - especially Real Madrid, playing at least 3-4 matches versus Barcelona in a year. Was it really worth to choose this way?
3, Last year's super-Bayern kicked Barcelona's ass - now they follow the style of the demolished opponent...

Guardiola is not a good coach at all, he was unable to recognize the difference between the strengths/weaknesses of Barca and Bayern, or the changing trends of world football.

[alanrotoi]

I bet you waited a lot of years just to say that.

[CTG]

I bet you waited a lot of years just to say that.

Check my team preferences. I like Barcelona and actually I liked tiki-taka too, when it was still a dangerous weapon instead of useless ball possession.

[alanrotoi]

It's not about that. It's about dancing on the misfortune of a winner.

[CTG]

It's not about that. It's about dancing on the misfortune of a winner.

FORMER winner. Teams and trainers should accept that world is changing - and they should learn from that (it seems Guardiola still lives in 2009). I'm afraid that defensive football will dominate in the following years. Just take a look at Mou's Chelsea: gameplay is ugly, but damned effective. Or Atletico with it's well-organized, agressive defense.

Btw the Atletico & Simeone combo seems to be the greatest team unit of the last few years. Maybe Dortmund and Klopp can compete with that.

[BonzaiJoe]

I agree about Chelsea's defensive style, but I really think that's just Mourinho squeezing as much as possible out of the squad he has at hand and utilizing his own areas of expertise. I don't think the other great teams at the moment are particularly defensively minded. When Greece won the European Cup in 2004, everybody thought their brand of depressive football was what the future held, but this turned out to be wrong. 

[CTG]

This... is... ARDAAAA!!!

[alanrotoi]

Simeone's Atletico shows that a cheap team but very motivated can beat the greatest teams. Barcelona is not hungry. It's about 10 years they used to win almost anything. They may be the best but not that motivated.

Remember Atletico de Madrid sold a lot of stars like Falcao and even without them they are fighting La Liga and Champions!

Simeone was Racing Club manager but has no success.

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Results of the important NB III East matches:

Putnok-Létavértes 1-1
Debrecen II-Kazincbarcika 3-4

So only one more point is needed to overtake Létavértes!

Roma lost their match this weekend and thus, Juventus became champions again!

Pápa-Debrecen 1-3 in the 66th minute - good weekend so far! :-)

[CTG]

Round 27
BUDAPEST HONVÉD - VIDEOTON FC; home victory 15%; draw 35%; guest victory: 50%; expected result: 1-3
MEZÖKÖVESD ZSÓRY FC - FERENCVÁROSI TC 20-35-45; expected result: 0-3
PUSKÁS AKADÉMIA FC - GYÖRI ETO FC 25-35-40 (refrees will help Orbán's lil' team - to help Orbán's main team for the silver medal); expected result: 2-1 (Orbán's son will score from penalty)
DVTK - SZOMBATHELYI HALADÁS 30-40-30; expected result: 1-1
LOMBARD PÁPA TERMÁL FC - DVSC-TEVA 10-25-65; expected result: 1-3

Results:
Budapest Honvéd - Videoton 0-1
Mezökövesd - Ferencváros 0-1
Puskás Akadémia - Györi ETO 0-1
Diósgyör - Haladás 1-1
Lombard Pápa - Debrecen 1-5

Standings:
1 Debrecen 56 pts
2 Györi ETO 53 pts
3 Videoton 48 pts
4 Ferencváros 48 pts
5 Haladás 45 pts
6 Diósgyör 43 pts