The tip of the match was very fascinating. The Turks rushed to assault and managed to create three extra good probabilities. Two of them within the eighty fifth minute, and the third in stoppage time, when a close-range shot by Semih Kilicsoy was instinctively saved by Verbruggen.
Turkish Mert Muldur is the thirtieth participant in historical past to attain an personal objective within the European Championships, scoring in Saturday’s quarter-final match towards the Netherlands (1:2).
That is the tenth personal objective within the present, seventeenth version of the occasion. Another is required to equal the report from the earlier version.
This 12 months, the house crew’s Antonio Ruediger beat their very own goalkeeper within the opening match, whereas different gamers who despatched the ball into the fallacious objective included Austrian Maximilian Woeber, Czech Robin Hranac, Albanian Klaus Gjasula, Italian Riccardo Calafiori, Turk Samet Akaydin, Dutchman Donyell Malen, Spaniard Robin Le Normand and Belgian Jan Vertonghen.
The record of unfortunate gamers contains Wojciech Szczęsny from the match between the Polish nationwide crew and Slovakia (1:2) in Saint Petersburg on June 14, 2021.
Listed here are the squads of each groups:
- The Netherlands: Bart Verbruggen – Denzel Dumfries, Stefan de Vrij, Virgil van Dijk, Nathan Ake (73. Micky van de Ven) – Jerdy Schouten, Xavi Simons (87. Joshua Zirkzee), Tijjani Reijnders (73. Joey Veerman) – Steven Bergwijn (46. Wout Weghorst), Memphis Depay (87. Jeremy Frimpong), Cody Gakpo;
- English: Mert Gunok – Mert Muldur (82. Zeki Celik), Kaan Ayhan (89. Semih Kilicsoy), Samet Akaydin (82. Cenk Tosun), Abdulkerim Bardakci, Ferdi Kadioglu – Baris Alper Yilmaz, Salih Ozcan (77. Okay Yokuslu), Hakan Calhanoglu, Kenan Yildiz (77. Kerem Akturkoglu) – Arda Guler.
The Netherlands will face England in Wednesday’s semi-final, having eradicated Switzerland on penalties within the quarter-finals.
Earlier than the match, police stopped a march of Turkish followers to the stadium in Berlin as a result of they had been performing a mass “wolf salute” related to the “Gray Wolves”, the most important extremist group working in Turkey.
When many individuals make the identical gesture, it turns into a political demonstration, and a soccer followers’ march just isn’t a political demonstration,” stated police spokeswoman Valeska Jakubowski.
The identical gesture was made by Turkish nationwide crew defender Merih Demiral, who scored two targets within the 1/8 finals match towards Austria (2:1), for which UEFA punished him with a two-match ban. Jakubowski admitted that exhibiting this gesture just isn’t prohibited in Germany, however confirmed that a number of arrests had been made.
On Friday, Spain superior to the semi-finals, beating Germany 2-1 after additional time, as did France, who eradicated Portugal on penalties. The rating was 0-0 after additional time.
