Croatia vs Turkey Euro 2008 Cup Soccer Quarter-finals Video
1st & 2nd Half
Extra Time & Penalties
Watch Turkey win on penalties vs Croatia in this video featuring soccer highlights and goals from the 2008 Euro Cup. Croatia were the better side in terms of creating opportunities during the 2 halves. Modric who came into Euro with so much buzz around his scheduled move to Tottenham, truly strutted his stuff today. Olic had innumerable misses which especially rankle in hindsight. The last two minutes of extra time saw the only two goals of the match being scored with first Klasnic (of the two kidney transplants fame) putting Croatia ahead and Semih Senturk scoring at the gong of the last minute of stoppage time as Croatian coach Bilic went nuts trying to get the referee to let him make a substitution. It was then penalties and with Modric missing the 1st one followed by a Rakitic miss, the pressure of a do or die for Petric ended with Turkey goalie Rustu saving and Turkey for the 3rd consecutive match got through by the skin of their teeth.
Prematch Thoughts: This is the 2nd quarterfinal and Turkey are weakened considerably by the suspension of Volkan after being sent off in the match vs Czech. Volkan Demirel has been more than Turkey’s last line of defence and on occasion was their defence, but Rustu is a pretty good replacement, all in all.
