Switzerland sends Turkey home empty-handed and can still hope | European Championship 2020

After two matchdays, Switzerland and Turkey counted 1 and 0 points respectively. More than insufficient to claim a place in the last 16 and so both teams had to win. The ideal scenario for a pleasant game of football.

Turkey was anything but convincing in its first two group matches, but this time it got off to a good start. Yet it was Seferovic who gave the Swiss the lead after just a handful of minutes. The Benfica striker was given too much space and floored Cakir with a low cruise missile.

The Swiss had everything under control without really dominating. Before the half hour, Shaqiri also had plenty of time to score in front of the Turkish goal area and with a beautiful curl in the square he doubled the Swiss lead.

A few minutes later, the small muscle bundle even failed to make the 3-0, but face to face with Cakir he had to acknowledge his superiority in the Turkish goalie. And the Turks? They were limited to a few long shots, but Yann Sommer floated each one out of his target.

Value ratios remained unchanged after the break. After fifteen minutes, Seferovic seemed to be on his way to a mirrored copy of his opening goal, although Cakir was still there with his fingertips this time. Meanwhile, Wales had swallowed a red card against Italy and that gave the Swiss citizen courage.

However, that hope was soon shaken when Kahveci painted the first European Championship goal of the Turks somewhat nicely past Sommer. In the end it turned out to be no more than a footnote, because 5 minutes later Shaqiri shot the Turkish goalkeeper with his second goal of the evening.

As Wales trailed 1-0 in Rome, Switzerland was trailing only on the basis of the lesser goal difference. Two hits could turn that situation around, but without the meanwhile substituted Shaqiri, Seferovic and Embolo, the troops of national coach Petkovic were no longer able to deepen the score.

As a result, the Swiss only finish third in their group, but with 4 points to their name, they can still dream of a place in the last 16. It will have its fate at the last Wednesday. After three defeats and only one goal, the Turks know that their tournament is over.

• Vladimir Petkovic (Switzerland national coach): “It was not a perfect match, but it was a good match. We could score more, but this should be enough to advance to the next round. It was a difficult group stage due to the many travels. Tomorrow is the wrong thing to do. crossing a 2 hour time zone. I have to congratulate my players on how they handled it.”

• Senol Günes (Turkey national coach): “This team will determine Turkish football for the next 10 years, but this performance at this European Championship is unacceptable. And I am responsible for that. But not only me. The media, the board and the rest of the coaching staff are also responsible. Just like the players and their individual mistakes. Before the tournament they thought we would make it to the final, now we are getting criticism from everywhere. I am not thinking about a dismissal yet.”