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Quarter Final: Turkey vs Croatia; Line-ups

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Here are the Line-ups for the current match being played between Turkey and Croatia.

Turkey : 1-Rustu Recber; 22-Hamit Altintop, 15-Emre Asik, 4-Gokhan Zan, 3-Hakan Balta; 20-Sabri Sarioglu, 17-Tuncay Sanli, 6-Mehmet Topal, 14-Arda Turan; 18-Colin Kazim-Richards, 8-Nihat Kahveci
Croatia team: 1-Stipe Pletikosa; 5-Vedran Corluka, 3-Josip Simunic, 4-Robert Kovac, 22-Danijel Pranjic; 11-Darijo Srna, 10-Niko Kovac, 14-Luka Modric, 7-Ivan [...]

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Nihat scores twice for Turkish delight in Geneva

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Petr Cech dropped a cross and let Turkey back into the game, as Nihat had an easy tap-in. Everyone thought we were going to see the first ever penalty shoot out in the group stages of a European Championships, but barely a minute later, Nihat was put through on goal and blasted his second goal [...]

Tags: czech, republic, Turkey
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Nihat Rockets Turkey Forward

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

 Turkey 3 - 2 Czech Republic
In a match where it all seemed to be a Czech Republic win went on to prove that Euro 2008 brings high-drama, action, excitment and everything more that football brings with. Turkey’s Arda brought a goal back to bring Turkey fans back to chanting Turkiye Turkiye, and in the 88th [...]

Tags: czech republic, euro 2008, Turkey
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Turkey’s XI vs Switzerland

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

These are the probable first eleven that Turkey will field against spirited co-hosts Switzerland.
Probable Starting XI: Volkan; Sabri Sarioglu, Asik, Emre Gungor/Cetin, Boral; Altintop, Aurelio, Karadeniz, Turan; Nihat, Erding.

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Altintop more than ready for Swiss Encounter

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Hamit Altintop has rallied the troops on his Turkish team-mates to not only beat Switzerland but blow them out of the tournament. Altintop is really cool ahead of the game and said that Turkey can beat Switzerland if they just play their normal game.

“We watched Switzerland’s first match,” he told euro2008.com. “We knew them from [...]

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Portugal too good for Turkey

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Second half goals for Pepe & Raul Meireles gave Portugal all three points against Turkey in the second Group A game in Geneva on Saturday. Many Turkish fans who had travelled to Switzerland to watch their team were not happy with the way that they played, thinking that they had lost the battle in midfield [...]

Tags: euro 2008, portugal, Turkey
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