FACTS ABOUT....Portugal v Turkey Match...

Portugal play Turkey in their opening
match of the Euro 2008 finals on Saturday (all times GMT) Where: Stade de Geneve, Geneva Capacity: 30,000
When: Saturday June 7, 1845 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)
Teams: Likely formation, shirt numbers, age, caps and goals

Portugal (4-3-3) Turkey (4-4-2)

1-Ricardo 32-75-0 23-Volkan Demirel 26-21-0

4-Jose Bosingwa 25-8-0 2-Servet Cetin 27-29-1
15-Pepe 25-3-0 3-Hakan Balta 25-8-1
16-Ricardo Carvalho 30-43-4 4-Gokhan Zan 26-19-0
2-Paulo Ferreira 29-47-1 20-Sabri Sarioglu 24-13-1
8-Armando Petit 31-54-4 5-Emre Belozoglu 27-56-4
20-Deco 29-53-3 7-Mehmet Aurelio 30-19-1
10-Joao Moutinho 21-13-1 17-Tuncay Sanli 26-54-15
11-Simao Sabrosa 28-61-15 22-Hamit Altintop 25-42-2
7-Cristiano Ronaldo 23-55-20 8-Nihat Kahveci 27-54-15
21-Nuno Gomes 31-69-28 21-Mevlut Erdinc 21-4-0 Also available:
3-Bruno Alves 26-11-1 1-Rustu Recber 35-116-0
5-Fernando Meira 30-49-2 6-Mehmet Topal 24-5-0
6-Raul Meireles 25-9-0 9-Semih Senturk 25-4-1
9-Hugo Almeida 24-9-2 10-Gokdeniz Karadeniz 28-46-6
12-Quim 32-26-0 11-Tumer Metin 33-23-7
13-Miguel 28-47-1 12-Tolga Zengin 24-2-0
14-Jorge Ribeiro 26-8-0 13-Emre Gungor 23-1-0
17-Ricardo Quaresma 24-21-2 14-Arda Turan 21-18-1
18-Miguel Veloso 22-6-0 15-Emre Asik 34-27-2
19-Nani 21-13-2 16-Ugur Boral 26-8-0
22-Rui Patricio 20-0-0 18-Kazim Kazim 21-2-0
23-Helder Postiga 25-32-10 19-Ayhan Akman 31-10-1
Coach: Luiz Felipe Scolari Fatih Terim
Injured: None Suspended: None None

Key stats:
* Turkey have not appeared at a major tournament since the
2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan when their run to
the semi-finals was ended by a Brazil side coached by Luiz
Felipe Scolari, now in charge of Saturday's opponents Portugal. * Portugal have won the countries' two previous meetings in
European Championship final tournaments. Fernando Couto scored the goal in a 1-0 in the group stage
at Euro 96 and striker Nuno Gomes scored both in the 2-0
succcess in the quarter-finals at Euro 2000.

Previous meetings:
18.12.1955 Fr Istanbul Turkey 3 Portugal 1 25.03.1956 Fr Lisbon Portugal 3 Turkey 1 24.01.1965 WCQ Lisbon Portugal 5 Turkey 1 19.04.1965 WCQ Ankara Turkey 0 Portugal 1 14.06.1996 ECF Nottingham Portugal 1 Turkey 0 24.06.2000 ECF Amsterdam Portugal 2 Turkey 0 Group A Switzerland Czech Republic Portugal Turkey

Next group matches
Saturday June 7 Switzerland v Czech Republic, St Jakob Park, Basel, 1600
Wednesday June 11 Czech Republic v Portugal, Stade de Geneve, Geneva, 1600 Switzerland v Turkey, St Jakob Park, Basel, 1845
Sunday June 15 Switzerland v Portugal, St Jakob Park, Basel, 1845 Turkey v Czech Republic, Stade de Geneve, Geneva, 1845