Croatia Vs Turkey

Sherifu

Is that a goal? :eek:

/rubs eyes

Sherifu

Oh my God...

Thank Christ for penalties.

Guy:Incognito

WTF? :eek:

Vokes

Turkey, da comeback masters! :eek:

mike65

OMGZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Mike.

kensutz

Jammy bastids

copacetic

bloody hell!!

Chardee MacDennis

was a great finish too for Semih!

SuperSean11

What a game.:eek:

Vokes

Rustu to redeem himself with teh penos? He seems a handy shot-stopper.

monkey9

This is incredible!! I mean, i really can't believe it. This tournament is getting better and better and better. AMazing

mike65

I was going to post "I watched two hours of lousy football and didn't even get a peno shoot-out" :pac:

Mike

Guy:Incognito

monkey9 wrote: »

This is incredible!! I mean, i really can't believe it. This tournament is getting better and better and better. AMazing

apart from the first 118 mins you mean?

Tom65

SofaK wrote: »

Rustu to redeem himself with teh penos? He seems a handy shot-stopper.

I think so. I really, really want Croatia to win, but I think Rustu will put Turkey through.

Sherifu

Lol @ the announcer, "the highlights, the two goals..."

Ya, that's about it alright.

carlop

insane!! I've got to remember never to watch the first 80 minutes of a turkish match!!

monkey9

Stekelly wrote: »

apart from the first 118 mins you mean?

It was worth it just for this craziness. Football hey?

Sherifu

Croatia choke...

Tom65

Bye bye Croatia.

Sherifu

Turkey & Germany eh...

Mad Dog

Delighted ..... Well done Turkey.

Well deserved after that extra time performance.

machiavellianme

Not even an exciting shoot out. Terrible viewing

monkey9

Turkey are like one of those people at a party who are fairly quiet and normal at first, then late on after continous drinking they visit a place call Crazytown!!

Vokes

Turkey are fecked as they'll be missing 2 of their key attacking players for the semis - Arda and Tuncay, right?

So that's Germany into the final then :pac:

Im_No_Superman

Unbelieveable, one minute the Croatia are home and dry and the next they are out. Fair play to Turkey though they just never give up.

Chong

Here here, fair play Turkey delighted for them, I still cant believe what an ending.

mayordenis

turan, emre and tuncay all miss the semi's?

jester77

There'll be some fun here on Thursday... things could really kick off

Mad Dog

With the players suspended and even with Nihat gone off injured I think they will struggle big time against Germany who seemed to find a little bit of form last night now that they dropped that fella Gomez who came into the tournament as a big prospect for them and has been a huge disappointment.

Drag00n79

Onto Basel we go. Bring on the Germans!

monkey9 wrote: »

Turkey are like one of those people at a party who are fairly quiet and normal at first, then late on after continous drinking they visit a place call Crazytown!!

:pac:

kenco

Touch of the old Rep of Ire teams who did the business only to let in the stoopid last kick goal. Those days are behind us now, right, right?????

machiavellianme

SofaK wrote: »

Turkey are fecked as they'll be missing 2 of their key attacking players for the semis - Arda and Tuncay, right?

So that's Germany into the final then :pac:

and nihat looks like he mightve done himself a mischief, so theyre left with semih and god knows who to get goals

Tom65

Did Eamo just call the Turkish 'keeper "Rusty"?

Im_No_Superman

LOL at Dunphy "The turkish keeper Rusty..."

monkey9

kenco wrote: »

Touch of the old Rep of Ire teams who did the business only to let in the stoopid last kick goal. Those days are behind us now, right, right?????

Oh yeah, whatever defender messes up, the Trap will kiss him on both cheeks before Tardelli takes him out back and wastes him

monkey9

Tom65 wrote: »

Did Eamo just call the Turkish 'keeper "Rusty"?

Well it is his first competitive game in a year or so:pac:

shane86

machiavellianme wrote: »

Not even an exciting shoot out. Terrible viewing

Ive seen better. Shoot outs are more entertaining if they contain at least two saves, one shot miles over the bar and star the England team against a Scolari managed one

Aside though, jesus christ. They dont have the big names, not the most slick, stylish players, and they dont play particularly thrilling, free flowing seamless attractive football, but they have more drive and determination, never say die attitude than nearly all the rest. Only the Dutch and the Russians can match it. After the first goal the heart was saying "they can do it", the head was saying...eh...get real. Unbelieveable.

shane86 wrote: »

There it is. If the CL has Liverpool, the Euros have Turkey.

That guy was right.....


Going forward, the squad is severely depleted (out of curiousity once the tournament has kicked off can a manager fly in more players for his originally named squad of 20-25 players?). The Germans have been flattered by Podolskis play, on the whole they have not been stunning at all this year. Portugal were in average form, overcoming them is no major achievement. The head, again, would tell you the Turks luck has finally run out (though I said that last time with the amount of 1st choicers missing tonight, and surely some of them are back against Germany). But the heart.....cant ever write them off.

pickarooney

Turned off half-way through extra-time to go cook... d'oh

Mr.Nice Guy

Amazing match. Credit to Turkey. The comeback Kings.

Also must say I was sick and tired of Alan Hansen and his smug whingeing at half-time about the game. Said something like it was 'almost watchable'. It's a bloody quarter-final of course it's going to be a bit cagey.

The match ended up offering plenty of drama. So sick of the smarmy arrogance that you get from those guys. The only match in the tournament I found truly dire was France/Romania.

estebancambias

Spot on ''Guy''

Hansen pissed me off. Fair play to RTE they always say its an intrigueing game.....or something along those lines.

CHD

there goes my €100 at 16/1 on croats.

Tom65

chdpoker wrote: »

there goes my €100 at 16/1 on croats.

Ouch. It looked like the Turks were 9-1 at half time (though I find that really strange). I was tempted, but considering how my bets have gone so far (France & Gomez as top scorer) I figured it was best not to.

Drag00n79

Tom65 wrote: »

Ouch. It looked like the Turks were 9-1 at half time (though I find that really strange).

I got 17/1 at half-time they'd win on penalties. I only put on a tenner though.

dobsdave

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Amazing match. Credit to Turkey. The comeback Kings.

Also must say I was sick and tired of Alan Hansen and his smug whingeing at half-time about the game. Said something like it was 'almost watchable'. It's a bloody quarter-final of course it's going to be a bit cagey.

The match ended up offering plenty of drama. So sick of the smarmy arrogance that you get from those guys. The only match in the tournament I found truly dire was France/Romania.

Hansen in particular has called it good when it was and bad (like this match) when it was.
One of the poorer matches at this tournament in my opioion.
The Ger-Por game was also a quarter final and not particularly cagey.

JerryHandbag

Unreal by Turkey, I think its fair to say Name On The Trophy, even tho they could have thier sub keeper playing outfield in the semi?!.....and what odds your man Semih to score the winner in the semi!

I take it the silver goal thingy has been dropped?

Pepe LeFrits

I got a semih from that goal.

genericgoon

monkey9 wrote: »

Oh yeah, whatever defender messes up, the Trap will kiss him on both cheeks before Tardelli takes him out back and wastes him

We'll miss you McShane.