Nihat seals Czech out
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Turkey celebrate on the way to an amazing victory
Two goals in the last three minutes gave Turkey a remarkable 3-2 win over Czech Republic in a winner-take-all Euro 2008 thriller on Sunday, earning a quarter-final meeting with Croatia. The Czechs were 2-0 up but Turkey equalised in dramatic style with three minutes to go when keeper Petr Cech inexplicably dropped the ball for Nihat Kahveci to slide the ball into an empty net. [+]
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| Current Squad | |
| G16 Jaromir Blazek | M17 Marek Matejovsky |
| G1 Petr Cech | M20 Jaroslav Plasil |
| G23 Daniel Zitka | M3 Jan Polak |
| D2 Zdenek Grygera | M18 Tomas Sivok |
| D6 Marek Jankulovski | M19 Rudi Skacel |
| D13 Michal Kadlec | F8 Martin Fenin |
| D12 Zdenek Pospech | F7 Libor Sionko |
| D22 David Rozehnal | F15 Milan Baros |
| D21 Tomas Ujfalusi | F9 Jan Koller |
| M4 Tomas Galasek | F10 Vaclav Sverkos |
| M14 David Jarolim | F11 Stanislav Vlcek |
| M5 Radoslav Kovac | |
| · Complete Squad | |
| Latest Fixtures/Results | |||
| DATE | OPPONENT | RESULT | Competition |
| Wed 6/11 | H- Portugal | L 1-3 | European Championship |
| Sun 6/15 | A - Turkey | L 3-2 | European Championship | · Complete Team Fixtures/Results |
| 2008 Tables: European Championship | ||||||
| TEAM | P | W | L | D | GD | Pts |
| Portugal | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Turkey | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Czech Republic | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | -2 | 3 |
| · Complete Tables | ||||||
| 2008 Leaders: Euro 2012 | |||||
| PLAYER | Goals | ||||
| Jan Koller | 1 | ||||
| Libor Sionko | 1 | ||||
| Jaroslav Plasil | 1 | ||||
| Vaclav Sverkos | 1 | ||||
| PLAYER | Yellow Cards | ||||
| Tomas Ujfalusi | 1 | ||||
| Tomas Galasek | 1 | ||||
| Jan Polak | 1 | ||||
| · Complete Statistics | |||||
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