The goalkeeper hopes the Gorgie outfit can put their SPL woes to one side tonight by edging past Celtic into the Co-Operative Insurance Cup semi-finals.
After being condemned to early exits in both last season’s cup competitions, Balogh is aware of the need to make amends, especially since the supporters are still smarting from Saturday’s goalless draw at home to basement side Falkirk.
As well as winning the league in his homeland, Balogh has three Hungarian Cup winners’ medals but instead of celebrating the triumphs on an open-top bus, Balogh has explained how the players are whisked through the streets on horse-drawn carriages. He said: “We have the Hungarian Cup and I have won it three times. I lifted the cup in 2001, 2003 and 2005, twice with Debrecen and one time with Sopron. “It doesn’t matter which club it is, any club winning the cup is very important. Not just for the players but the fans as well and everybody is so proud.
When you win the cup, you feel something that you can’t describe. That’s why it would be so important for us to do it. Any final is just one game and anything can happen.
“We don’t actually have the open-top bus to celebrate with the fans in Hungary but it’s the same kind of thing.
“We have horses pulling a carriage with us on it. Horses are very famous in Hungary and this is the way we do it. It’s a fantastic experience. But I would love to experience the feeling of winning this cup with Hearts.”
Csaba Laszlo’s side head into the cup tie looking to recapture the form that saw them finish third in the league last season after Saturday’s draw left them languishing in ninth.
The match was overshadowed by the booing directed at captain Michael Stewart when he was substituted in the second half but Balogh insists there are no major problems with the team.
He said: “I don’t think we are not playing well. We are creating a lot of chances in every game and if we can score more goals, we can win games.
“We lost goals in the last minute against Rangers, Celtic and St Johnstone and if we had not done that, we would have five, six or seven points more and if that was the case nobody would be talking about wrong results or us being a bad team.
“We have a good team with a good enough squad and if we have a little more luck we can step forward.”
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