- The national team reached the finish line of the European Championship in Germany in such a way that there is no team on the entire continent that has won before.
- Marco Rossi's students have not found a winner in 14 matches, since November 2022 they have won nine and drawn five times.
- The Golden Team was last able to achieve a streak longer than this, which after losing the 1954 World Cup final won 15 times in 18 matches with three draws.
The frame traveling to the European Championships will be completed in Dublin
Apart from this, before the big tournaments, the stakes are usually higher for the players to get into the squad or even the starting team with a good performance, but Rossi - just like three years ago - already selected the 26 players traveling to the European Championship before the friendly matches.
The squad will be completed in Dublin, among the four late-joining footballers, Callum Styles already prepared for the training center with his teammates over the weekend, and Bolla Bendegúz, Ádám Martin and Dániel Gazdag will also be available in the Irish capital.
Fiola's game is questionable, Lang's great streak can continue
In the Aviva Stadium, where the final of the Europa League was held almost two weeks ago, only Attila Fiola's game is questionable, because the Fehérvár footballer started his preparation with the idea that he still has to avoid collisions.
On the other hand, Ádám Lang, who is recovering from a metatarsal fracture, has been doing a full-fledged job since the beginning, so the great series of the 67-time national team defender of Cyprus Omonia may continue, as he has played in 28 games in a row in a crested shirt since September 2021.
The home team is in bad shape, but it is not easy to score against them
The match against Ireland will primarily prepare the Hungarian team for the Scots, among the European group rivals, because both of them are characterized by the features of the island's football, i.e. extremely physically strong players make up the two guards.
The Irish did not make it to the continental competition, as they finished fourth in their five-team qualifying group, ahead of Gibraltar alone. After the failure, John O'Shea was temporarily appointed as national team captain, but for the time being, as a player in the national team's all-time ranking - behind Robbie Keane and Shay Given - the team's biggest problem, the lack of goals, was not solved.
During the Euro qualifiers, the Irish scored only two goals in six games against the trio of France, Holland and Greece, and in the friendlies in March they drew with the more promising Belgians, but even then they failed to score in the opponent's goal, as they did in the same Euro group as the Hungarians. nor on the occasion of the 1-0 defeat suffered by Switzerland. Although the Irish are winless in four games, it is difficult to score against them, as they have conceded only three in these meetings.
Hirado.hu, M4 Sport and Kossuth Rádió will broadcast the Ireland-Hungary meeting, which starts at 8:45 p.m. CET on Tuesday.
After the match against the Irish, the Hungarian national team will play one more warm-up match: on June 8, Marco Rossi's team will play against Israel at home, but this time the Langs will play in Debrecen, at the Nagyerdei Stadium.
As known,
the soccer European Championship starts on June 14, the Szoboszlais will play against Switzerland for the first time the next day, and then on June 19, the opponent will be Germany. We will close the group stage on June 23, against Scotland, presumably then the promotion will be decided.
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