Wednesday 25 June 2008

Turkeys Lights go out in Basel


So you might have missed some of the game however you must admit that Turkey where unlucky tonight against a mostly poor German side.

Turkey took the lead in this game. It controlled much of the play. They then fell behind but, once again struck back in the closing minutes. This time maybe the Turks scored their late goal too early. After Semih Semturk scored in the 86th minute, Philipp Lahm hit the winner for Germany in the 90th minute.

Turkey had certainly cemented their place in European and International football and have every right to feel very proud of their performance. Germany however will have to pull a performance out of the bag in the final because if the team that showed up tonight plays that badly in Vienna on June 29th they will have their pants pulled down to their ankles.

The 3-2 result certainly showed that the Germans can play when they want to and maybe that will spur them to play some seriously good football and make this final one worthy of a great tournament.

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