99:17 reads the clock. Scotland 0 - 0 Hungary, the score. Both teams need a win to stand any reasonable chance of qualifying and at this point they're both going for it. Scotland had won a corner in the last minute of time added on and they had thrown almost everyone forward. The ball had been whipped in, and after a melee in the penalty box, it'd been cleared to Dominik Szoboszlai at the edge of his own box. 99:17. A couple of tired steps forward and he moves it on to Kevin Csoboth, who's running into space beyond the halfway line.
For the vast majority of the game, neither Hungary nor Scotland had seemed all that interested in the actual 'playing' bit of this sport. And then suddenly it all opened up... the change precipitated by a substitution that Hungary's Italian coach Marco Rossi made in the 86th minute. When he brought Kevin Csoboth on.
By then the game had been delayed by quite a lot due to the medical attention required for Barnabas Varga, who was stretchered off, curtains hiding him from public view (the Hungarian federation later stated that his condition was stable and that he was being looked at in a Stuttgart hospital). So when Csoboth came on there were four minutes and what would eventually be a total added time of ten minutes left.
Now, if you don't recognise the name 'Csoboth', it'd be perfectly normal. Expected even. Of the same age as the much more feted Szoboszlai, the two had played a lot of football together through the Hungary age group teams. Where nobody had ever doubted that Szoboszlai would be the next big thing, Csoboth had also been thought of to be at the same level.
Having done the last bit of his schooling at Benfica, it was expected that Csoboth would break through to the senior ranks in Portugal soon enough, but that never happened. He'd return to Hungary and potter about in the mid-table, and Coach Rossi would call him up for the first time ever in March last year. He'd never scored for the national team, and he came into the Euros with the grand total of 12 top division goals. He'd even been on the verge of being dropped by club Ujpest FC and his place in the Hungarian team had never really progressed beyond 'uncertain'.
You'd be well within your rights then to ask: How exactly did this man change the match? The answer is simple - by being, by far, the fastest player in the Hungary squad. Add the fact that he always combines his speed with an almost reckless directness, and it was exactly what the game needed. He may do nothing if you want to control a game, but he will change everything if you want to embrace the chaos.
Csoboth would turn on the jets and move into the Scottish half, but he'd been well tracked by Lewis Morgan, who did just enough to throw the Hungarian off the idea of steaming headfirst at the Scottish goal. Csoboth, though, was ready for this. Displaying an unreal level of calm - considering the circumstances and his own style of play - he checked inside and played a deft pass out to Roland Sallai on the right wing.
Rossi had chosen to embrace the chaos, sensing that the game was about to open up as both teams chased the goal that could well take them to the knockouts. He'd nearly seen it pay off already. In the 92nd minute, Csoboth had been released on a counter by a lovely Adam Nagy pass. Easily outpacing the Scottish backline, running so fast he almost overran the ball, Csoboth took a touch, paused, and smashed a shot onto the far post. He'd come this close to sending Hungary through.
Would he get a chance to redeem himself?
As Sallai hared into the Scottish defensive third he cut into the penalty box and played the ball square. Szoboszlai had pushed every fibre of his being into making one final sprint at the near post, but the ball rolled just past his desperate lunge. Unusually, Csoboth had not joined in on the sprint. Sauntering along on the far side, he hung back... and in not moving created just the space he needed. Sallai's pass rolled across the face of Angus Gunn's goal, and Csoboth almost casually ran onto it and smack-passed it into the bottom corner.
99:32. 1-0 Hungary. 3 points. The potential difference between progression and elimination.
It was a perfect counterattack. Hungary went from the edge of one six-yard box to the other inside fifteen seconds, and Csoboth finished it with the eerie inevitability of one much more used to tucking chances in. What a time to score your first goal in a national shirt, eh? What a way to drag your team off the edge and straight back into the mixer.
Even going by the standards of this tournament, this ending was quite something. Already Euro 2024 has seen Klaus 'Spartacus' Gjasula break the Euros record for the latest equaliser only for it to be broken by Luka Jovic a day later. Now, we've seen a new record tumble: Csoboth's goal is the latest on record in regular time in Euros history. And he did it with so much at stake.
Which is why Kevin Csoboth's winner is our Moment of the Day from day 10 of Euro 2024.