{"id":58265,"date":"2016-06-22T09:31:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T08:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58265"},"modified":"2016-06-22T09:31:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T08:31:02","slug":"euro-2016-turkey-come-back-from-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/euro-2016-turkey-come-back-from-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2016: Turkey come back from the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Turkey came back from the dead to beat the Czech Republic 2-0 in the Euro 2016 Group D clash on Tuesday evening in the French city of Lens.<\/h1>\n<p>Turkey, who fought back from two down to beat the Czechs 3-2 in a Euro 2008 thriller, won a hard-fought match to keep their hopes alive of getting a ticket to the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey scored their first goal of the tournament in the 10th minute, when wunderkind Emre Mor assisted Burak Yilmaz on a well-placed finish.<\/p>\n<p>The Czechs tested Turkish goalkeeper Volkan Babacan after the goal, but could not beat him nor the defense, which had conceded four goals in their previous two matches.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish fans went crazy after Ozan Tufan&#8217;s 65th-minute goal, when chaos inside the six-yard box of the Czech Republic ended with a top net finish.<\/p>\n<p>Ozan Tufan \u2013 widely criticized during Turkey&#8217;s first match against Croatia when he was spotted tidying his hair instead of marking Luka Modric \u2013 scored Turkey&#8217;s second \u2013 and possibly second-round clinching \u2013 goal.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey will now have to wait and see if Italy and Belgium do not lose their matches tomorrow. A favorable outcome will see Fatih Terim&#8217;s side advance to the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>The other match of the night saw Croatia beat Spain 2-1, securing first place in Group D.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n<p><strong>Anadolu Agency<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey came back from the dead to beat the Czech Republic 2-0 in the Euro 2016 Group D clash on Tuesday evening in the French city of Lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,135,127],"tags":[8314,962,77182],"class_list":["post-58265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-football","category-sport","tag-burak-yilmaz","tag-czech-republic","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}