Ferencvaros vs Real Madrid - prediction, team news, lineups

La Liga giants Real Madrid proceed their pre-season preparations with a affable against Hungarian broadside Ferencvaros astatine the Groupama Stadium connected Saturday.

Both sides finished arsenic runners-up past play and volition beryllium aiming to instrumentality to the apical of their respective home leagues successful 2026-27.

Match preview

After consecutive trophyless seasons without La Liga oregon Champions League glory, Real Madrid person turned to Jose Mourinho for the 2nd time, an assignment which was met with a mixed absorption wrong the club’s fanbase.

Following a 4-1 demolition of Leganes to unfastened pre-season, Madrid suffered a archetypal setback nether their caller manager, letting a two-goal pb gaffe successful a 2-2 gully with Fiorentina past Saturday.

Visibly unhappy astatine the last whistle, Mourinho headed consecutive down the passageway without exchanging pleasantries with the Fiorentina staff, a absorption that apt acceptable a stern code successful the Madrid dressing room.

Los Blancos volition beryllium anxious to present an contiguous effect arsenic they look Ferencvaros for the archetypal clip since the 1995 Champions League radical stage.

Madrid dominated those erstwhile encounters, winning the archetypal limb 6-1 earlier a 1-1 gully successful the instrumentality meeting. The Spanish giants volition erstwhile again beryllium expected to travel retired connected top.

Saturday’s visitors are unbeaten successful 5 consecutive matches dating backmost to past season, often starting powerfully by opening the scoring and starring astatine fractional clip successful each of those games.

This weekend’s travel to Budapest is Madrid’s penultimate warm-up outing distant from Spain, with a clash against Schalke 04 successful Germany inactive to travel arsenic their last pre-season fixture.

While Madrid are inactive 16 days distant from their archetypal crippled of 2026-27, Ferencvaros person already played 7 competitory matches crossed home and European competitions.

Balazs Borbely's broadside person mislaid conscionable erstwhile successful that clip (W4, D2), with their recent 1-0 triumph implicit Gornik putting them 90 minutes distant from the Europa League play-offs up of adjacent week's instrumentality limb successful Poland.

The Greens were primitively scheduled to look Gyori ETO connected league work this weekend, but that fixture has been postponed to accommodate a high-profile gathering with Madrid successful beforehand of a packed stadium.

Like Madrid, Ferencvaros person besides wasted nary clip hitting their stride successful matches lately, having breached the deadlock 8 times implicit their past 9 matches, with August 2’s goalless stalemate with Vasas the exception.

No visiting squad has managed to triumph astatine the Groupama Stadium since Gyori's 3-1 triumph successful January, giving the hosts content that they tin propulsion disconnected an upset against their much illustrious opponents.

However, Ferencvaros person yet to bushed Spanish absorption successful their past 12 attempts and person mislaid the past 4 encounters.

Ferencvaros signifier (all competitions):

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Team News

Marc Cucurella, Ibrahima Konate, Antonio Rudiger, Aurelien Tchouameni, Brahim Diaz, Jude Bellingham, Vinicius Junior, and Kylian Mbappe person yet to diagnostic successful Madrid's pre-season pursuing their engagement astatine the World Cup.

Thibaut Courtois was besides connected planetary work successful North America, but his lack is compounded by a thigh wounded sustained against Spain.

Rodrygo and Eder Militao stay sidelined with thigh injuries, portion Raul Asencio is expected to beryllium retired for astir a period with a musculus problem.

New accomplishment Yan Diomande is Madrid's grounds signing aft joining from Leipzig successful a woody worthy up to €140 million, and his debut is not expected until adjacent week astatine the earliest.

Thirty-one-year-old Naby Keita has been injured since July and remains retired of contention for Ferencvaros.

Daniel Arzani (hamstring) and Bence Otvos (knee) are besides sidelined, with the second unavailable since February.

Brazilian midfielder Cadu has registered 3 assists successful his past 4 location appearances and volition beryllium aiming to supply much creativity.

Ferencvaros imaginable starting lineup:

Dibusz; Cadu, Gomez, Raemaekers, Osvath; Corbu, Kanichowsky, Levi; Bamidele, Joseph, Zachariassen

Real Madrid imaginable starting lineup:

Lunin; Carreras, Rivas, Martinez, Dumfries; Valverde, Lacosta; Yanez, Guler, Endrick; Espi

We say: Ferencvaros 1-2 Real Madrid

While acold from afloat strength, Madrid should inactive person capable prime to borderline past Ferencvaros, who are susceptible of giving their visitors a existent test.

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