Czechs out of Euros after 1:2 defeat by Turkey

The Czech national football team failed to advance from the group stage after losing 1:2 to Turkey in their third and final match of the European Championships in Hamburg on Wednesday evening.

Czech midfielder Antonín Barák was controversially sent off midway through the first half of the game, having receiving his second yellow card in nine minutes after being deemed to have made an over-the-top tackle by Romanian referee Istvan Kovacs. Neither side scored in the first half but Turkey struck six minutes after the start of the second. Team captain Tomáš Souček equalised in the 66th minute, but former Everton striker Cenk Tosun, a second-half substitute, secured the Turkish victory with another goal in the fourth minute of added time.

The Czechs finished fourth in Group F with only one point after losing 1:2 to Portugal last week and a 1:1 draw with Georgia on Saturday. Turkey finished in second place in the group, reaching Euro 2024’s last 16. They will face Austria in the first knockout stage on Tuesday night.

The Czechs previously lost to the Turks at the Euros in 2008 and 2016.