{"id":196122,"date":"2024-07-03T16:07:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/03\/turkey-win-battle-of-dark-horses-as-austria-bow-out-of-euro-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T16:07:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:07:32","slug":"turkey-win-battle-of-dark-horses-as-austria-bow-out-of-euro-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/03\/turkey-win-battle-of-dark-horses-as-austria-bow-out-of-euro-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey win battle of dark horses as Austria bow out of Euro 2024 \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Two goals from defender Merih Demiral helped Turkey win the battle of the\u00a0Euro 2024\u00a0dark horses as they eliminated Austria in the last 16 on Tuesday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Juventus centre-back Demiral opened the scoring in the first minute at a drenched Leipzig Stadium by capitalising on some sleepy defending from a set-piece, slamming in after Patrick Pentz shovelled the ball off his line but back into the danger zone.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old, who had only scored two goals in his first 47 international appearances, doubled his tally just before the hour mark by rising highest to expertly flick in Arda Guler\u2019s inch-perfect corner.<\/p>\n<p>Vincenzo Montella\u2019s side have now reached the last eight of a European Championship for the first time since 2008, when they went one round better before being eliminated by Germany in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/01j1tm030s2wx9s4vhd2.jpg\" alt=\"Ferdi Kadioglu\" title=\"Ferdi Kadioglu\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Turkey held on for a famous victory \/ Dan Mullan\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Having impressed during the group stage by surprisingly topping Group D ahead of France and the Netherlands, Ralf Rangnick\u2019s Austria were undone by a weak defensive rearguard but did give themselves hope of a comeback when Michael Gregoritsch arrived unmarked at the back post to convert Stefan Posch\u2019s header.<\/p>\n<p>However, no equaliser arrived \u2013 with goalkeeper Mert Gunok pulling off a world-class save in second-half stoppage time to keep his side\u2019s lead intact \u2013 and instead it will be Turkey who take on the Netherlands in the final quarter-final on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The games between the final eight nations\u00a0begin on Friday night when Spain battle hosts Germany before Portugal take on France. 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