Turkish Football And The Dawn of a New Era
With all of the end of season excitement going on currently, the...
Turkey with only Beşiktaş leftback İsmail Köybaşı in the starting lineup took an early lead after 10 minutes thanks to an excellent counter attack set up by Arda Turan continued by Emre Mor and finished by Burak Yilmaz.
The Czech Republic took control of the match and managed to create several chances but both the bar and Volkan Babacan prevented the Czechs from finding an equalizer.
In the second half Turkey found that all important second goal despite the Czechs still having the better of the play, Ozan Tufan put the Turks 2-0 up which pretty muched sealed the Czech Republic’s faith and also put Turkey in to a potential round of 16 spot.
Oguzhan Özyakup, Cenk Tosun and Olcay Şahan all came in as second half substitutes for Turkey, ending the game with 4 Black Eagles on the pitch with İsmail Köybaşı putting in a man of the match performance.
Thanks to their 2-0 win Turkey now hop over Albania in the virtual standings for the top four best third placed teams of the tournament, if Sweden (v Belgium) and Ireland (v Italy) don’t win or Portugal (v Hungary) loses today, Turkey will qualify for the round of 16 and take on Group B winners Wales.