Portugal defeated-Switzerland end as winners |Turkey through!

A Eight man rested Portugal team suffered a loss in the hands of the Jubiliated Switzerland squad yesterday. Portugal team without Cristiano Ronaldo or Deco looked like a good squad but it was too high to hope for a win.

Hakan Yakin scored twice Sunday to give Switzerland a 2-0 victory over Portugal, helping the co-host end its European Championship with a first-ever victory at the tournament.

“We should have actually replaced 11 (players) rather than eight,” Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said. “We ran too many risks during this match. I made a mistake. I made a big mistake.”

“I was very happy, obviously, but it also was a bit of a downer,” Kuhn said. “We really deserved more in the first two matches and that would have been enough for us.”

But he was still proud of his team’s effort.

“They gave something to the fans,” he said. “I always say that’s the most important thing.”

Turkish delight!

The greatest match that the Euro 2008 has witnessed so far came lat night when Turkey defeated Czech Republic in a 3-2 format to register the greatest comebacks ever in the history of the game.

Petr Cech’s nightmarish fumble to allow Nihat Kahveci to score with four minutes left made a shootout likely. Turkey’s miracle was completed by Nihat two minutes later to leave Cech and his colleagues stunned.



"To loss such a game is foolish!" said the Czechs coach. They gave away 2 goals in last three minutes of the game.

Maybe things will quiet down in the quarterfinals as the possibility of a championship triumph looms closer into view and injects some nervous tension into the veins of the combatants.

Or maybe the extra pressure will produce even greater feats of skill and composure from this continent’s finest. Imagine that.