That would be very tough given how high quality the group was.
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HP's question is really the one that highlights Turkey, given that their qualification record was so good, including taking points off France and generally looking extremely solid at the back. This is tempered a bit by the actual tournament being so much later than the qualifiers and Turkey were pants in their friendlies, especially defensively. Still, that qualifying record and the fact that they had a lot of players in really good sides in club soccer meant that people were thinking they could be dangerous in this tournament.
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There's also the start Turkey made to the world cup qualifiers, putting four past Turkey, winning 3-0 in Norway. They did draw 3-3 at home to Latvia, but that was the third game in a week, and, well, shit happens. Nothing there to suggest they''d be so piss poor here- unrest in the camp?
EDIT: Put four past the Netherlands. Putting four past themselves would be a bit much, it's not like they're Portugal or somethingLast edited by Nesta; 22-06-2021, 09:12.
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Originally posted by Tommasi View PostEngland shouldn't have been so bad in 88. Beat Yugoslavia 2-0 at home and 4-1 away in qualifying. Beat N.Ireland (got to World Cups back then) 3-0 at home and 2-0 away. Beat Turkey 8-0. 19 goals scored in 6 games and conceded 1.
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It seems to happen more in World Cups: Colombia 1994*, Argentina 2002 were both failures after an excellent previous 2 years IIRC. West Germany were on a long unbeaten stretch before they lost to Algeria in 1982.
*But Colombia had been poor in Italia 90 so 1994 was a continuation of that, arguably.
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Originally posted by scratchmonkey View PostHP's question is really the one that highlights Turkey, given that their qualification record was so good, including taking points off France and generally looking extremely solid at the back. This is tempered a bit by the actual tournament being so much later than the qualifiers and Turkey were pants in their friendlies, especially defensively. Still, that qualifying record and the fact that they had a lot of players in really good sides in club soccer meant that people were thinking they could be dangerous in this tournament.
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Originally posted by Bizarre Löw Triangle View PostWere Turkey that bad? They did ok against Italy for 55 minutes until they stuck one in their own net. They narrowly lost to an inspired Wales then lost an open free-flowing game to Switzerland where both sides needed to win, and win heavily.
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