The solid defensive performance takes Turkey to Euro 2020

Turkey forms a hard wall to defend their goal, surrendering only 3 goals in 9 matches in succeeding round.

The Turkish domestic squad satisfied their followers over an outstanding defensive performance and fruitful consequences on the road to the UEFA Euro 2020. Euro Cup fans can purchase Turkey Euro Cup Tickets online to enjoy its stunning performances.

Turkey eligible for this year's European Football Championship draw beside Iceland as solid defensive performance in universal took them to Europe's top-tier game.

In the European qualifiers, Turkey defended their goal very well in home matches as they did not concede any goal in the games against Moldova, France, Andorra, Albania, and Iceland.

Turkey's center-back tandem, Demiral from Juventus and Leicester City player Soyuncu, were spirited players in the fight for the UEFA Euro 2020.

The duo was boosted by Schalke center-back Kabak and Ayhan of Fortuna Dusseldorf.

Turkey had 23 keeps in the qualifying round but passed only three goals. They had seven clean sheets in nine games as well.

With a flagged defensive line, Turkey averaged 0.3 goals passed per game. Unconnectedly the domestic squad scored 16 goals beside their rivals, tallying 1.78 goals per game.

Turkey was shown 22 yellow cards, while not seeing any red card in the qualifying stage.

Goalkeeper Mert Gunok and defenders Celik and Demiral were Turkey regulars in this era, playing in all competitions.

Turkey faced France, Albania, Moldova, Iceland and Andorra in the Group H of the Euro 2020 succeeding round, assembling 20 points in nine competitions with six victories, two draws, and only one loss.

Turkey has beaten loser countries Albania and Moldova in every four competitions to gain 12 points. They got 4 points from the 2018 FIFA World Cup champions France in two games, which meant a daring performance for Turkey.

Everton's Tosun becomes top scorer

Everton frontward Tosun is presently the topmost scorer with five goals for Turkey. Playing for Fortuna Dusseldorf in Germany, Ayhan amazingly followed him with three goals.

Ayhan set the ball into the France net two times, one at home and the other at Stade de France, Saint-Denis.

Turkey boss Gunes makes history

Team manager Senol Gunes went down in the Turkish football history, being the first Turkish head who takes his country to World Cup and EURO tournaments.

In the first term of Gunes, Turkey amazed the global football community as the team ranked third in the 2002 FIFA World Cup co-hosted by South Korea and Japan. Under Gunes' rudder, Turkey senses the top spot in the Euro 2020.

Euro journeys of Turkey

Turkey's earliest Euro game was the 1996 competition when they got removed in the group phase in England.

They then qualified for the Euro 2000, where Portugal removed Turkey in the last eight. Turkey overlooked the Euro 2004 in Portugal but grasped semifinals in the Euro 2008.

They did not qualify for the Euro 2012 co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine.

Turkey last joined the Euro tournament in 2016, but the team made an early exit, failing to reach the knockout stages in France.

The qualification patent Turkey's fifth spell at Euro finals, as they previously gained it in 1996, 2000, 2008 and 2016.

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Turkey Euro 2020 qualification much-awaited success story

The Turkish national football squad turned a new page after closely a decade of bitter disappointments by qualifying to the Euro 2020, conveying fresh hope to a country where football is the top sport.

Turkey wrapped up the qualifying stages of the UEFA Euro 2020 as the second in Group H with a 2-0 win over Andorra on Sunday. Euro Cup fans can purchase Turkey Euro Cup Tickets online to enjoy its stunning performances.

Specialists have said that this achievement gone to a rejuvenated squad under the wheel of qualified coach Senol Gunes, which has restored confidence in football.

The 67-year-old past goalkeeper took the post in February and directed Turkey to the third position in the 2002 World Cup during his first spell in charge

He substituted discharged Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu, following a sequence of bad outcomes as Turkey failed to qualify for the previous year's World Cup in Russia.

Gunes went down in past and became the first Turkish head pleasing his nation to both the World Cup and Euro competitions.

This qualification was long-awaited in Turkey as the general squad ended dead last in the Euros groups in 2016, and it has not progressed to a World Cup since 2002.

In the very first game previous year in Konya, central Turkey, the state team managed to shatter France 2-0, for the first time in its history, showing that the Turkish football is not the sickening man of Europe anymore.

Arda Alan Interview

"The current achievement of the national squad certainly improved the country's motivation and moral. A rejuvenated and clean-cut squad has transported an understanding team forward, bringing hope to supporters," Turkish football expert Arda Alan Isik told Xinhua.

He, however, warned that things might go back where they were if a long-term program is not accepted for constant results by the Turkish football alliance and government establishments as he has faith in that the current achievement is the consequence of coach Gunes's initiatives.

According to Isik, the next step will be more stimulating for Turkey who has to continue its fruitful self-justifying approach at the Euro 2020, joining it with a more violent offensive for the Turks, which will face harder opponents than in qualifiers to be successful.

The young Turkish squad has brought renewed attention for the national squad, crippled by bad consequences in the past decade and also by argument and a financial disaster that has obstructed the three immense clubs of Istanbul, Turkey's commercial and football capital.

We have to guarantee that the Turkish people's interest in sports, in general, be increased, not only via TV but also by local means and creativities, Isik added.

The Turkish Super League was considered fewer than a decade ago one of Europe's strong leagues.

Match-fixing scandals, internal problems in Istanbul's so-called big three football giants, Fenerbahce, Galatasaray and Besiktas, and financial debts, have contributed to the downturn of the national squad over the years.

The big squads have labored under crippling debt and a lack of accountability. They have spent too much on foreign players, particularly on the aging ones with inflated sums, and are now facing huge debts.

Erman Toroglu saying

"Senol Gunes and his company of young players have transported back the love for the nationwide squad whose fame had worn over the years because of many reasons," said veteran football commentator Erman Toroglu in Sabah daily.

Just as the national squad had hit rock bottom, good playing took the Turkish national team from the abyss.

Turkish followers were fed up with spoiled and moody players, commented Toroglu adding that Gunes restored faith in the national team which seems to be rise from the ashes.

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