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Euro 2008: Quarter-Final Match

Friday, 20th June at 20.45

The winner of the Croatia vs Turkey match will meet Germany in the semi-final; in Basle.

With Volkan Demirel suspended, Rüstü Reçber makes a comeback.

In the 18th minute, Luka Modric bursting down the right crossed low to Ivica Olic, who slammed the ball high onto the crossbar. Niko Kranjcar then failed to head in the rebound. Chances don't come better than that.

As the game enters the half-hour mark, Croatia are dominating the game but just can't score.

Turkey tried a little possession football to improve their confidence on the ball, then Tuncay made a nice flick over Josip Simunic but was obstructed as he entered the Croatian area, trying to get a head onto the ball. The penalty appeal was ignored.

Other than that, the first-half only gave us the one clear chance.

Half-time - 0:0

Turkey started the second-half with more problems in defence but escaped unharmed.

Croatia continued to search for a goal; but when another golden opportunity opened up, in the 70th minute, Ivan Rakitic leant back and hooked the ball high over the bar.

With less than fifteen minutes to go, Turkey looked like they might almost be ready to go on the offensive.

The experience of Rüstü showed when he read Darijo Srna's free-kick and pulled out the save of the match. Wait a minute, that was the only real save of the match. Rüstü followed that performance with another couple of saves in the last five minutes, to keep Turkey in the match for extra-time.

Full Time - 0:0

Turkey had the better of the first period of extra-time, playing some of their best football so far in this game. Croatia, on the other hand, seemed a little tired. The Turkish fans sensed this and raised their volume in the Ernst-Happel-Stadion.

In the second period of extra-time, the Croatian fans tried to inspire their team to go the extra mile.

The late winner specialists, Turkey looked like they had the stuffing knocked out of them after Rüstü ran out along the goal-line and was caught in no-man's land as Luka Modric floated a cross in for Ivan Klasnic to head home.

Then Turkey proved that they were the mother of all late finishers by equalising with the last kick of the game.

So after two hours of nothing we get a double whammy and penalties.

Final Score:
Croatia 1 - Turkey 1

goal.gif (309 bytes) Goalscorers:
1:0 Ivan Klasnic (119)
1:1 Semih Sentürk (122)

Penalties: (1:3)
Turkey won the penalty shoot-out after Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic missed the target and Rüstü Reçber saved Mladen Petric's spot kick. Only Darijo Srna stayed calm for Croatia.

After picking up their second yellow cards, Tuncay Sanli, Arda Turan and Emre Asik are all suspended for the semi-final.

Teams

Croatia:
1 Stipe Pletikosa; 22 Danijel Pranjic, 3 Josip Simunic, 4 Robert Kovac, 5 Vedran Corluka; 7 Ivan Rakitic, 10 Nico Kovac, 14 Luka Modric, 11 Darijo Srna; 18 Ivica Olic, 19 Niko Kranjcar.

Turkey:
1 Rüstü Reçber; 3 Hakan Kadir Balta, 15 Emre Asik, 6 Mehmet Topal, 4 Gokhan Zan, 22 Hamit Altintop; 14 Arda Turan, 17 Tuncay Sanli, 20 Sabri Sarioglu; 8 Nihat Kahveci, 18 Colin Kazim-Richards.

Referee:
Roberto Rosetti (Italy)

change.gif (94 bytes) Substitutions:
61 Mins - 16 Ugur Boral on for 18 Colin Kazim-Richards
64 Mins - 21 Mladen Petric on for 19 Niko Kranjcar
76 Mins - 9 Semih Sentürk on for 6 Mehmet Topal
97 Mins - 17 Ivan Klasnic on for 18 Ivica Olic
117 Mins - 10 Gökdeniz Karadeniz on for 8 Nihat Kahveci

yellow_card.gif (94 bytes)4 Yellow Cards:
27 Mins - Tuncay Sanli (Turkey)
49 Mins - Arda Turan (Turkey)
89 Mins - Ugur Boral (Turkey)
108 Mins - Emre Asik (Turkey)

Onto the semi-final.

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