Quote from: Pierre 2 on Today at 10:09:02 AM

Quote from: pawel7777 on July 02, 2024, 10:00:57 PM

And here we are, only 8 teams left.
My picks for the winners of the quarter-finals:
Spain
Portugal
England
Turkey

ps, why do English portals spell Turkey as "Türkiye"?? What kind of nonsense is that?

Some countries changed their official names in later years and kindly asked everyone to use new one. If you check united nations its also Türkiye there.

Anyways Turkish national team performed very well in first half. Austria's game was pretty locked as Türkiye played with some central midfielders filling gaps of center backs.
In second half Austria used its energy. They played consistently good, deserved to score to be honest. But Turkish defence, even if it was struggling, performed rather good. Merih and Mert were really good in whole match.

I still remember when there where still many who calls Netherland, Holland but now I guessed we all have chosen to stick with Netherlands.
Though Turkey did well defeating Austria which match I just couldn`t predict who would win before the game but I think their coming match against Netherland might likely be their knock out from this tournament. Netherland team as been doing well and when it comes to squad quality they out perform Turkey though this is huge play while team play can help the Turkish team, the Netherland are also not really in this part. I believe in order for the Turkish team to win they will need more luck on their side.