JAPAN vs TURKEY
Match Report below
Match Stats: -
| Japan | 0-1 | Turkey |
| Umit Davala 12 |
Man of the Match: Hasan Sas (Turkey)
Teams:
Japan:
12-Seigo
Narazaki
3-Naoki Matsuda
17-Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
16-Koji Nakata
20-Tomokazu Myojin
5-Junichi Inamoto (22-Daisuke Ichikawa 46, 8-Hiroaki Morishima 86)
7-Hidetoshi Nakata
21-Kazuyuki Toda
18-Shinji Ono
14-Alex (Takayuki Suzuki 46)
9-Akinori Nishizawa
Turkey:
1-Rustu Recber
4-Fatih Akyel
3-Bulent Korkmaz
5-Alpay Ozalan
20-Hakan Unsal
22-Umit Davala (15-Nihat Kahveci 74)
8-Tugay Kerimoglu
10-Yildiray Basturk (17-Ilhan Mansiz 90)
18-Ergun Penbe
11-Hasan Sas (14-Tayfur Havutcu 85)
9-Hakan Sukur
Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
Linesmen: Maciej Wierzbowski (Poland) Paul Smith (New Zealand)
Match Report: -
Turkey secure their place in the last 8 as they continue further
to challenge for the world cup which has been the most open one for decades.
Scoring early on in the first half was enough to send them through, but it was
all Japan for the second half and most of the 1st as they continued to press
forward and try to score.
However they could not quite get a breakthrough thanks to Alpay and co. and they
crash out as its the last match for them to play in this world cup.
They had done exceptionally well to get this far and no-one expected them to go further.
Turkey now face Senegal in the quarter final which may prove a tough match for both teams.
