Lady luck deserts Turkey
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The Turks contemplate defeat in Basel.
Philip Lahm struck a 90th-minute winner as Germany claimed the first final berth at Euro 2008 as battling Turkey's fairytale run finally came to an end at St Jakob-Park in Basel. A much-weakened Turkey side had dominated the first half but were only level at half-time after Germany's Bastian Schweinsteiger had cancelled out Ugur Boral's opener. [+]
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| Current Squad | |
| G23 Volkan Demirel | M5 Belozoglu Emre |
| G1 Recber Rustu | M10 Gokdeniz Karadeniz |
| G12 Tolga Zengin | M11 Tumer Metin |
| D22 Hamit Altintop | M20 Sabri Sarioglu |
| D15 Emre Asik | M6 Mehmet Topal |
| D3 Hakan Kadir Balta | M14 Arda Turan |
| D16 Ugur Boral | F21 Mevlut Erding |
| D2 Servet Cetin | F8 Nihat Kahveci |
| D13 Fehmi Emre Gungor | F18 Colin Kazim-Richards |
| D4 Gokhan Zan | F17 Tuncay Sanli |
| M19 Ayhan Akman | F9 Semih Senturk |
| M7 Mehmet Aurelio | |
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| DATE | OPPONENT | RESULT | Competition |
| Fri 6/20 | A - Croatia | W 1-1 | European Championship |
| Wed 6/25 | A - Germany | 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 |
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| Semih Senturk | 3 | ||||
| Nihat Kahveci | 2 | ||||
| Arda Turan | 2 | ||||
| Ugur Boral | 1 | ||||
| PLAYER | Yellow Cards | ||||
| Arda Turan | 2 | ||||
| Mehmet Aurelio | 2 | ||||
| Sabri Sarioglu | 2 | ||||
| Emre Asik | 2 | ||||
| Tuncay Sanli | 2 | ||||
| Semih Senturk | 1 | ||||
| PLAYER | Red Cards | ||||
| Volkan Demirel | 1 | ||||
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