Turkey steps closer to World Cup finals: 0 - 2
Turkey beats Estonia, one of the weak teams of Group D, in a critical match by 2-0 and succeeded to keep their hopes alive.
Turkish National team snatch three points from Estonia by 2-0 on Friday, climbing to 2nd place in their group after Hungary's historical defeat against the Netherlands by 8-1.
By scoring one goal for each half with Umut Bulut in 23 min and Burak Yilmaz in 47 min,
the Red and Whites turned the Netherlands match that will be played on Tuesday,
October 15 into a final towards play-off for World Cup 2014 in Brazil.
Turkey needs to complete the group as 2nd rank to join the play-off matches
between the eight best 2nd teams in all qualifying groups.
After the resignation of Abdullah Avci, Turkey won their third match
succeedingly with the legendary coach Fatih Terim.
Terim declared their target, "We pursuit a miracle" when he was appointed
as national team coach in August 2013.
In the other matches of the group, Netherlands beat Hungary by 8-1 at home,
and Romania won 4-0 against Andorra away.
Both Turkey and Romania have 16 points after nine games played in the group, however Turkey still is one step further in averages and thus ranks
2nd in the group behind the Netherlands. Now Turkey turned
their eyes to the Oranges, who already guaranteed
the leadership in the group.
The Turkey - Netherlands match will be played on Tuesday,
October 15 at 21.00 EET at Fenerbahce Sukru Saracoglu Stadium,
Istanbul, Turkey.
The match will be broadcast live by Star TV in Turkey.
Source: AA News Agency
