A National Football Team will face Austria tomorrow in the last 16 round match of the 2024 European Championship (EURO 2024). If the Ay-yildiz team passes the round, they will be paired with the winner of Netherlands-Romania in the quarterfinals.
Turkey, which finished second in its group in the championship hosted by Germany and made its name in the last 16 round, aims to advance to the quarterfinals by beating Austria. The match at the stadium of the same name in the city of Leipzig will kick off at 22.00 GMT.
The Turkish team finished in second place in Group F with Portugal, Georgia and the Czech Republic with two wins and one defeat.
Austria, on the other hand, managed to finish as the leader of Group D with 6 points, where it competed with France, the Netherlands and Poland.
The team that passes this round will play the winner of the Netherlands-Romania match in the quarter-finals in Berlin on July 6.
Portuguese referee will officiate
Artur Soares Dias from Portugal will be the referee for the match between Austria and Turkey.
Dias will be assisted by Paulo Soares and Pedro Ribeiro from the same country. The fourth referee of the match will be Mykola Balakin from Ukraine Football Federation.
Portuguese Tiago Martins will be the VAR for the match.
Important absentees in the National Team
National Team captain Hakan Çalhanoğlu and Samet Akaydın, who are serving card suspensions, will not play in tomorrow’s match.
Abdülkerim Bardakcı, whose suspension is over, will be able to take his place on the pitch.
In Austria, midfielder Patrick Wimmer, who received his second yellow card in the Netherlands match and is suspended, will not be able to play against Turkey.
10 players on the borderline
A National Football Team has 10 players on the penalty line ahead of the Austria match.
Zeki Çelik, Salih Özcan, Kenan Yıldız, İsmail Yüksek, Mert Günok, Uğurcan Çakır, Mert Müldür, Orkun Kökçü, Kaan Ayhan and Arda Güler, who have one yellow card each in the tournament, will be suspended for the Austria match.
Turkey’s European Championship squad
The following players are in the squad of the National Team:
Goalkeeper: Altay Bayındır (Manchester United), Mert Günok (Beşiktaş), Uğurcan Çakır (Trabzonspor)
Defense: Mert Müldür, Ferdi Kadıoğlu, Samet Akaydın (Fenerbahçe), Zeki Çelik (Roma), Abdülkerim Bardakcı (Galatasaray), Ahmetcan Kaplan (Ajax), Merih Demiral (Al-Ahli)
Midfield: İsmail Yüksek (Fenerbahçe), Kaan Ayhan (Galatasaray), Okay Yokuşlu (West Bromwich), Orkun Kökçü (Benfica), Salih Özcan (Borussia Dortmund), Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Inter)
Forwards: İrfan Can Kahveci (Fenerbahçe), Yunus Akgün (Leicester City), Kenan Yıldız (Juventus), Kerem Aktürkoğlu, Barış Alper Yılmaz (Galatasaray), Arda Güler (Real Madrid), Bertğ Yıldırım (Rennes), Cenk Tosun, Semih Kılıçsoy (Beşiktaş), Yusuf Yazıcı (Lille)
Austria’s squad
The following players are in Austria’s EURO 2024 squad:
Goalkeepers: Niklas Hedl (Rapid Wien), Heinz Lindner (Union SG), Patrick Pentz (Brondby)
Defense: Flavius Daniliuc (Salzburg), Kevin Danso (Lens), Philipp Lienhart (Freiburg), Phillipp Mwene (Mainz), Stefan Posch (Bologna), Leopold Querfeld (Rapid Wien), Gernot Trauner (Feyenoord), Patrick Wimmer (Wolfsburg), Maximilian Wöber (Mönchengladbach)
Midfield: Christoph Baumgartner (Leipzig), Florian Grillitsch (Hoffenheim), Marco Grüll (Rapid Wien), Florian Kainz (Cologne), Konrad Laimer (Bayern Munich), Alexander Prass (Sturm Graz), Marcel Sabitzer (Dortmund), Romano Schmid (Werder Bremen), Matthias Seidl (Rapid Wien), Nicolas Seiwald (Leipzig)
Forwards Marko Arnautovic (Inter), Maximilian Entrup (Hartberg), Michael Gregoritsch (Freiburg), Andreas Weimann (West Brom)
