Match Day LIVE .
Euro Championship .
Quarter Finals
Netherlands vs Turkey .
Time -8.00 pm .
Venue -Olympiastadion in Berlin.
Date -Saturday July 6th, 2024.

For the past two weeks the world have been glued to their television as well as other mobile devices to watch one of the biggest football tournament on the planet earth , after the World Cup ,, known as the Euro Championship which formally started in 1958.
This years Europa 2024, being hosted in Germany kick started on June 13th , with the opening match between the host Nation , Genmany pummeling a half fit Scottish team at the Bayern Arena in Munich ,4-1..

The group games were full of thrills and turns as well as major upsets where minnows Roumania ropes their group , defending champions , the Azzurris , Italy were shown the exit door with an emphatic 2-0 loss to a tactically superior Switzerland , while many big name teams like the three lions ,England , Netherlands as well as France struggled to pass the group stage with fewer goals to the surprise of football followers . Turkey also showed a class with their group stage qualification too .

The Netherlands faces an uphill task when they face Turkey in today s quarter finals berth .both teams had their ups and downs before today s match in thegrouo stage matches .
The Netherlands and Turkey round off the Euro 2024 quarter-finals today.
The Dutch made relatively easy work of Romania on Tuesday evening, overcoming a slow start to win 3-0 in Munich and march into the last eight.
It was a strong bounce-back performance from Ronald Koeman’s side, who had been stunned by Austria last week after a goalless draw with France to follow a last-gasp win over Poland, squeezing through to the last 16 in the end as one of the four best third-place finishers at the tournament.
Donyell Malen scored twice off the bench against the Group E winners at Allianz Arena, with the in-form Cody Gakpo also taking his goal tally for the tournament to three and laying on a terrific assist as the Netherlands made a timely return to winning ways.
It is now a four-day turnaround for themselves and opponents Turkey, who have reached the quarter-finals of a majorinternational tournament for the first time since 2008..

Vincenzo Montella’s Turkish side finished as runners-up in Group F after a dramatic victory over the Czech Republic to follow a thrilling win over Georgia and chastening loss to Portugal, with Merih Demiral’s brace – plus a last-gasp wonder save from goalkeeper Mert Gunok – enough to see off surprise Group D winners Austria in the final last-16 tie in Leipzig..
The winners of this match will go up against the winners of England’s Dusseldorf clash with Switzerland in the semi-finals in the so-called ‘easier’ half of the Euro 2024 draw.

The Dutch has no injury , suspension or otherwise in today’s thriller , their only major change will be Malen who came in as susbstiute for Steven Bergwijn against Roumania and cemented his position for today’s match .The Dutch looks good and settled in today’s football hostilities

Turkey will welcome back influential captain Hakan Calhanoglu and defender Samet Akaydin against the Dutch after both players served one-match bans against Austria.
The Turkish side suspensions list is episcopal.agaunst a tactically superior and goal hungry Dutch side .With no less than 10 of their major players watching from the dug out , after their I’ll tempered match against the Czech Republic , but they will welcome back their captain , Hakan Calhanoglu and defender , Samet ,who served a one match ban against Austria .with midfielders Orkun Kokcu – who limped off injured late on – and Ismail Yuksek both picking up second cautions of the tournament to rule them out in today’s quarter finals .

Calhanoglu will come back in at the expense of Kokcu, though a replacement will be needed for Yuksek, with Borussia Dortmund’s Salih Ozcan likely to be recalled to partner Kaan Ayhan in deeper midfield.
Montella is likely to field both Akaydin and Abdulkerim Bardakci as a centre-back pairing, with Demiral now handed a two-game ban by Uefa for his goal celebration against Austria..

The Dutch have the slight edge in terms of all-time head-to-head record, having thrashed Turkey 6-1 during their last meeting in World Cup qualifying back in September 2021, when Memphis Depay scored a hat-trick.
However, Turkey had won back-to-back meetings before that and were also beaten 6-1 by Austria in their previous match before exacting sweet revenge in Leipzig.
Netherlands wins: 6
Draws: 4
Turkey wins 4.

This will be the 15th international meeting between Netherlands and Turkey.
It’s been a little hard to get a read on the Netherlands at this tournament so far.
Dominant but wasteful against Poland, they needed Wout Weghorst to rescue a late victory off the bench before they looked flat in a goalless heavyweight draw with France but could have won again were Xavi Simons’ second-half goal not controversially ruled out.
Then their defensive frailties were fully exposed by Austria in a five-goal thriller, before they got a real confidence boost with a comfortable victory over an albeit middling Romania side.
It’s hard to know whether you can truly count them on the list of contenders, though in this half of the draw no one can be ruled out from making the final.
Turkey have been inconsistent too but shown real flashes of exciting quality led by talismanic youngster Arda Guler, outdueling debutants Georgia in a classic before being brushed aside by Portugal and leaving it very late to make their numerical advantage count against the Czech Republic, ahead of benefiting from a chaotic start against an out-of-sorts Austria.

Both the Oranje and Turkey can be explosive in attack and vulnerable in defence, so even with the stakes so high on Saturday night, goals are likely to arrive sooner or later.
Though the Crescent-Stars will be backed by a huge ‘home’ following in Germany, where many fans of Turkish heritage reside, their Dutch rivals seem to be finding some rhythm and may just edge an even encounter in the capital.
We’re expecting a really entertaining affair here with plenty of action and incident, shaded by the Netherlands with Liverpool’s Gakpo no doubt enjoying a starring role once again.

Predictions – 2-1 ,The Dutch are likely to pummel the Turkish side on the night , other things being equal.

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