The Hungarian national football team defeated Turkey 1-0 in a warm-up match on Friday evening in the packed Puskás Arena. After the match, national team captain Marco Rossi spoke about what he saw at the official press conference.
"If I'm not mistaken, this was my sixtieth match on the bench of the national team. That's a credit to me. We started at a low point, but we can see where we are now.
I told the guys to be proud of the fact that the Puskás Aréna was full even at such a meeting and a warm-up match"
- began Marco Rossi, who spoke separately about the performance of Márton Dárdai, András Schäfer and Péter Gulácsi.
"We have to highlight the performance of Márton Dárdai, because he didn't have much time to shake things up with the others, but in today's match he already started in the second half. We had to change the axis of the defense, it wasn't easy, but he solved what I asked of him. As for Schäfer: I have known him for a long time, I know what he is capable of, he played a very good game, but we expected this. We hope to avoid injuries in the future. "
"Gulácsi defended quite well, but that didn't surprise me at all. He is the goalkeeper of RB Leipzig, you can't argue with a goalkeeper of this quality. We will give him what belongs to the emperor... Dibusz's merits cannot be disputed either, he defended throughout the autumn, but now Gulácsi is back in goal and he gave his usual good performance"
- assessed the captain, who also spoke a few words about his Italian colleague, the national team captain of the Turks.
"Vincenzo Montella is exceptional as a footballer, as a person and as a professional. It was only his fifth game at the head of the Turkish national team, but we can see the traces of his work. They have a good frame, they play an intense game based on pressing, they have a lot of potential."
"As for the stories in the match, we tried to slow down the pressing of the Turks, we didn't want them to have the opportunity to counter, because they are strong in that. Tonight, none of our three attackers played their best game, there were a lot of inaccuracies, we failed to take advantage of the opportunities that arose in the attacking third," said the captain to the question of Nemzeti Sport.
"Dominik Szoboszlai stepped back into the defense many times in this match, it was no accident. He is our most talented player, he goes back to control. He was able to shoot through the attack of the Turks, he is capable of these fifty or sixty meter balls, this is how we planned it"
Rossi concluded his thoughts.
EC PREPARATION MATCH
Budapest, Puskás Arena, 58,000 spectators.
A: Frankowski (Polish) HUNGARY: Gulácsi – Balogh B. (Dárdai M., 67), Lang, Szalai A. – Nego (Bolla, during the break), Á Nagy.
(Styles, 61.), Schäfer, Kerkez (Nagy Zs., 61.) – Sallai (Kleinheisler, 80.), Szoboszlai – Varga B. (Ádám M., 80.). National captain: Marco Rossi TURKEY: Günok - Celik (Aktürkoglu, 77), Kabak, Akaydin, R. Yilmaz (Müldür, 27) - Yüksek, Kökcü (Güler, 61) - Akgün (Baris Yilmaz, 77), Calhanoglu, Yildiz (Uzun, 77) - Ünal (Yazici, 61).
National captain: Vincenzo Montella Scorer: Szoboszlai (from 48 - 11)
THE HUNGARIAN SELECTION FRAMEWORK AGAINST TURKEY AND KOSOVO
Goalkeepers: Dénes Dibusz (Ferencvárosi TC), Péter Gulácsi (RB Leipzig – Germany), Balázs Tóth (Fehérvár FC)
Defenders: Balogh Botond (Parma – Italy), Márton Dárdai (Hertha BSC – Germany), Ádám Lang (Omonia Nicosia – Cyprus ), Attila Mocsi (Rizespor – Turkey), Willi Orbán (RB Leipzig – Germany), Attila Szalai (Freiburg – Germany), Gábor Szalai (FC Lausanne – Switzerland)
Midfielders: Bolla Bendegúz (Servette – Switzerland), Milos Kerkez (AFC Bournemouth) – England), László Kleinheisler (Hajduk Split – Croatia), Ádám Nagy (Spezia – Italy), Zsolt Nagy (Puskás Akadémia FC), Loic Nego (Le Havre – France), András Schäfer (Union Berlin – Germany), Callum Styles ( Sunderland - England)
Forwards: Ádám Martin (Ulszan Hyundai - South Korea), Dániel Gazdag (Philadelphia Union - United States), Krisztofer Horváth (Kecskeméti TE), Roland Sallai (Freiburg - Germany), Dominik Szoboszlai (Liverpool FC - England) , Zalán Vancsa (Lommel SK – Belgium), Barnabás Varga (Ferencváros TC)
TURKEY FRAMEWORK (28 people)
Goalkeepers: Ugurcan Cakir (Trabzonspor), Mert Günok (Besiktas), Muhammed Sengezer (Basaksehir), Okan Kocuk (Samsunspor)
Defenders: Merih Demiral (Al-Ahli SFC - Saudi Arabia), Ozan Kabak (Hoffenheim - Germany), Cenk Özkacar (Valencia - Spain), Fredi Kadioglu (Fenerbahce), Zeki Celik (AS Roma - Italy), Mert Müldür (Fenerbahce), Ahmetcan Kaplan (AFC Ajax - Netherlands), Samet Akaydin (Panathinaikos - Greece) Midfielders: Kaan Ayhan (Galatasaray
) , Hakan Calhanoglu (Internazionale – Italy), Ismail Yüksek (Fenerbahce), Orkun Kökcü (Benfica – Portugal), Salih Özcan (Borussia Dortmund – Germany)
Forwards: Arda Güler (Real Madrid – Spain), Cengiz Ünder (Fenerbahce), Irfan Can Kahveci (Fenerbahce), Yunus Akgün (Leicester City – England), Kerem Aktürkoglu (Galatasaray), Baris Alper Yilmaz (Galatasaray), Semih Kilicsoy (Besiktas), Abdülkadir Ömür (Hull City – England), Can Uzun (Nürnberg – Germany), Enes Ünal (AFC Bournemouth – England), Kenan Yildiz (Juventus – Italy), Yusuf Yazici (Lille OSC – France)
SELECTED FURTHER MARCH PROGRAM OF HUNGARIAN
March 26, 7 p.m.: Hungary-Kosovo (Tv: M4 Sport) - live on NSO!
Featured image: Marco Rossi's Facebook page
