Quote from: pawel7777 on Today at 06:05:47 PM

Quote from: Gencecikmen on Today at 05:07:41 PM

Yesterday, Turkey secured a 2-1 victory against the Czech Republic in the final Group F match, advancing to the last 16. The Czech Republic bid farewell to the tournament with this result. Notably, the referee in the Turkey-Czech Republic match set a tournament record by issuing 16 yellow cards and 2 red cards. At one point, I even wondered if he would start showing cards to the fans and TV viewers.

I think it was actually 18 yellows and 1 red, two of the yellow ones got converted to a red one.
It looked like the referee was trying to make a name for himself and go for the record, and I think he might have succeeded. I believe this is the most yellow cards in one game in Euro's history.
Some of them were deserved, some not, I don't think showing that first red card to Barak in 20th minute was a good decision and it changed the game completely.

It was a really good one to watch though, with both teams not holding back and doing everything to win.

It was a bit funny at two stages where the ref was flicking yellow cards at the
Czechia bench and another after the match. It was a niggly match and I recon
the ref wanted to make a statement of authority with the cards....

There was a bit of history between these two teams, they played 9 times in the
past with 6 wins for Turkey, once Chory for Czechia received a red card in the
10 minute the writing was on the wall for them