Well the conditions in the St Jakob’s park Basal havent been the best. Infact its poured down for the first 45 minutes. And the match was in danger of being called off. It was more like a game of water polo than football. But Switzerland seemed to have the best of it.
After alot of splashing about switzerland crossed the ball in to the Turkish box where the ball came to a complete stop in a puddle right in front of Hakan Yakin to tap it into the net from 2yrds out. It was quite comical how much the ball refused to roll and just sat up waiting to be touched in.

2 minutes later Hakan Yakin was in on goal again with just the neat to find and duly missed his chance. Wether it was the weather playing its part of just the fact Hakan was a bit of his usual game. The end of the first half quickly ensued with not a lot of goal opporunties. Although for how bad the weather was they both put on an entertaining performance.

Luckily during the break the rain finally stopped and the ground dried up a bit. A suprise counter attack see’s Turkey level the match with a fantastic header from Semih Senturk. Although there will be questions over the swiss goalie Diego Benaglio. He really should of stopped it or atleast pushed it wide.

Switzerland retaliate with good pressue and the game has really picked up in the second half. The pitch is drying up by the minute and the ball is running more free and evenly. Switzerland come close again in the 82nd minute with a 3 on 1 break from the half way line forcing the Turkish keeper to make a great one handed save only for Switzerlands Hakan Yakin to miss his chance again. He was duly substituted straight after.

For 20 minutes of so the game was level at 1-1 and it seemed a draw was on the cards until the deadlock was broken in the 92nd minute with a fantstic break from the Turkish goal line. 3 touches one deflection off a swiss ankle and Arda Turan will be the host of turkey tonight. All in all it was a very entertaining match with a lot of chances. The flooded pitch kind of added to the entertainment and although i would of preffered Switzerland to win. Its Turkey who go through to face Czech Republic with their euro 2008 dreams still in their won hands.

Unfortunatly for our joint hosts Switzerland its the end of the road and they sadly are the first team to go out of Euro 2008.

Verdict: Very good entertaining game !
Final score: Turkey 2 Switzerland 1