4 – 0
“Callum O'Dowda capitalised on Trabzonspor's numerical disadvantage, finishing from Adam Nagy's assist to give Ferencváros the lead and effectively end the tie as a contest.”
Pivotal“Marius Corbu headed home to make it 2-0 on the night shortly after half-time, extinguishing any remaining hope Trabzonspor might have harboured of a miraculous turnaround.”
Pivotal“Bamidele Yusuf converted from the penalty spot to make it 3-0, adding insult to injury for a nine-man Trabzonspor side with the tie long since decided.”
Ferencváros were already the favourites heading into this second leg, but Trabzonspor handed them the tie on a plate when Ruslan Malinovskyi was dismissed for a serious foul just 13 minutes in, reducing the Turkish side to ten men for the bulk of the contest. From that point, the Hungarian champions exercised complete control, finishing with 62 percent possession, 20 shots, and six big chances created against a side that mustered just two shots on target across 90 minutes. Callum O'Dowda punished the numerical disadvantage with a clinical finish at 19 minutes, and while Trabzonspor's goalkeeper André Onana kept the score respectable into the second half, Marius Corbu and a Bamidele Yusuf penalty made the tie mathematically impossible to rescue. Sidny Lopes Cabral's second yellow on 57 minutes left Trabzonspor with nine men, and Krisztián Lisztes added a fourth in the closing stages to put a definitive stamp on the scoreline. For Trabzonspor, it was a chastening European exit shaped almost entirely by their own indiscipline; for Ferencváros, a 4-0 win that confirmed their place in the Europa League group stage with considerable authority.
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