Homesick Fitzel to mull over future

Malta coach Dusan Fitzel gave the clearest indication yet that he may quit the national team citing personal reasons.

Addressing journalists after Malta's 1-0 defeat to Hungary at the National Stadium last night, the Czech revealed that he misses his family a lot.

"In the coming days, I'm going back home to my family to take a short break," Fitzel said.

"At the moment I'm feeling really tired and I need to stop for a while. During this time I will sit down and think thoroughly on my future and then I will be in a better position to decide if I will remain in charge of the Malta team or not."

Turning his sights on the match, Fitzel said: "I am pleased with the performance of my players. They applied pressure on Hungary and that was the only way to keep them away from our goal."

However, the Malta coach is still not satisified with the players' approach during training.

"I am not happy with my players' attitude in training," he said.

"Unfortunately, some of them do not take their training sessions seriously enough and this has to change. Given the limited selection at my disposal it is difficult to axe players from the squad. So, you either have to change the players or the coach."

Fitzel said that if he stays he will surely introduce some new players and was ready to give a second chance to Daniel Bogdanovic and Andrei Agius.

Hungary coach Erwin Koeman was satisfied with the result.

"We are delighted to have won this match," the Dutchman said.

"We were risking heavily by giving the ball away too much. Michael Mifsud was a constant threat for us. He is very dangerous in one-on-one situations. Luckily, Torghelle's goal was enough to see us through today."

Asked to rate Hungary's chances of qualifying for the finals, Koeman was cautious and quoted Portugal, Sweden and Denmark as standing with a better chance of reaching the finals in South Africa.

"We have three strong opponents in the group but Hungary are playing better these days and we can have our say even when some of our regulars are missing as happened against Albania when Gera did not play," Koeman said.