Slovakia round-up: Debut joy for Barmos

New coach Jozef Barmos inspired AŠK Inter Bratislava to their best win of the season.

Zilina humbled
League leaders MŠK Zilina were humbled 4-2 in front of their biggest crowd of the season as 12,929 watched Inter run riot today. Tomás Gerich fired the visitors into the lead in the 26th minute and although Marek Mintál levelled for the home side five minutes before the interval, Sasa Micovic converted Alias Lembakoali's cross to restore Inter's advantage.

Consolation goal
Lembakoali made it 3-1 on 58 minutes with a fine solo effort and Marián Cisovský stunned the home fans with a fourth for Inter. Miroslav Nemec made the scoreline a little more respectable with Zilina's second goal a minute from time.

Slovan in fine form
A three-goal blitz inside the first 27 minutes was enough for ŠK Slovan Bratislava to see off the challenge of ŠKM Púchov with a comfortable 3-0 win. Róbert Vittek opened the scoring in the eighth minute, sliding home into an empty goal from Stanislav Sestak's cross. Three minutes later the home side doubled their advantage when Marián Puchner headed home Pavol Sedlak's corner and the game was all but over midway through the opening period as Vittek headed his second from Radim Necas's free-kick.

Joy for Dubnica
Two-goal Pavol Straka helped fire FK ZTS Dubnica to their fourth league win of the season against relegation rivals FC Tatran Prešov with a 3-2 home victory. Straka headed home in the eighth minute from Roman Greguska's corner to give the home side the lead but two goals in a minute saw Tatran turn the game on its head. First Lubomír Mati fired home from the penalty spot after he had been brought down by Branislav Mráz and then Ján Dic pounced on a defensive mistake to convert Ján Slahor's cross.

Straka grabs a winner
However, Peter Singlár levelled for Dubnica with a fine strike from the edge of the penalty area on 52 minutes and Straka grabbed the winner, converting Anton Suchy's cross with seven minutes remaining.

Konecný saves the day
Goal-shy 1. FC Košice crashed to their 12th defeat of the season, going down to a solitary late strike from FK Dukla Trencín's Martin Konecný. The visitors were content to sit back and hit the home side on the break and their reward came in the 87th minute when Konecný struck a sweet winner from the edge of the penalty area.