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Why Croatia will beat Turkey in Vienna tonight

June 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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Euro 2008 quarter-final, 7.45pm, BBC1, bet here

Croatia/ Turkey preview

Having successfully avoided a quarter-final clash with Germany, the most successful side in Euro history, the Turks now face in-form Croatia. Unfortunately, this looks to be the end of the road for the Eurasians, as the Croats, powered by Slaven Bilic’s powerful rocket sauce, will make the semis. Oh well, at least they got to make Petr Cech look like a clown before bowing out.
Why Croatia will win

* Croatia have never lost to Turkey.

* Turkey have faced Croatia once before at the European Championships, in 1996, and Croatia triumphed 1-0.

* Croatia have won all three games so far at the European Championships.

* Turkey have never led a match with Croatia, on the two times they drew they have come from behind.

* Turkey may have excelled against Switzerland and Czech Republic but they have won just four of their last eight.

* Croatia have lost just one of their 17 competitive games since losing to Brazil at the World Cup - a 2-0 loss in Macedonia after they’d already secured Euro 2008 qualification.

But it might go to penalties…

* Two of the three previous Croatia/Turkey clashes have finished level.

* Turkey don’t go out without a fight - they’ve come from behind in their last two matches and in their last two clashes with Croatia.

Then again…

* Turkey haven’t drawn any of their last six games.

* And Fatih Terim’s side have drawn just one of their ten previous European Championship games and two of twenty tournament games.

Did you know?

* Whichever team wins, it will be their first appearance at a European Championship semi-final but both teams have finished third at the World Cup - Croatia in 1998 and Turkey in 2002.

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Posted: June 20th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

3 responses so far

  • 1 Hans // Jun 20, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    CROATIA! P-L-E-A-S-E, do that!

  • 2 El Turko // Jun 21, 2008 at 12:31 am

    Any other comment?!

  • 3 Turko // Jun 22, 2008 at 10:33 am

    Statistics are not everything..

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