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WELCOME Good evening and welcome to live coverage of the Euro 2020 qualification clash between Turkey and France at the Konya Büyüksehir Belediye Stadyumu.

Euro Qualifying / Matchday 3
Konya Büyüksehir Belediye Stadyumu / 08.06.2019
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Pete Sharland

Updated 08/06/2019 at 20:39 GMT


16'
We have two balls on the pitch so Turkey play it back to France when play resumes.
Varane applauds the gesture like he's playing Sunday League, got to love that.
14'
Loose pass from Pogba rolls out of play.
Perhaps he was distracted by the noise which is astonishing. I know I'm going on about it but it really is.
13'
Brilliant from Burak!
He chases down a loose ball, nicking it off Pogba, then he chops back and draws the foul.
Excellent stuff from the lone forward.
12'
Had another slight delay in play for some treatment for Giroud, but he also looks like he is going to be okay to carry on.
11'
This will surely be the first time we've mentioned Mbappe so far. He picks up a loose ball and tries to take on two defenders. The first is beaten but the second recovers well.
That pace is absolutely terrifying.
10'
Gorgeous flick from Yilmaz nearly sets away a break but Umtiti is in quickly to snuff out the danger.
8'
Durukhan is briefly down after having the back of his ankle trod on by Pogba but he's up again and okay to carry on.
6'
Turkey are pressing hard as well, they clearly think they can get the ball back quickly if there is an early press.
Both teams giving the ball away a bit in these early stages.
4'
Turkey aren't afraid of playing the ball about against the world champions, they're snapping some passes about in midfield.
2'
I tell you what when France are on the ball, as you imagine they will be a lot, the noise is deafening.
Giroud flicks on a ball from Varane and he sets Sissoko away, it goes behind for a France corner.
1'
We are underway! France in white and Turkey in red.
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Our man in the middle tonight is Damir Skomina, you might recognise him from such football games as the Champions League final.
Turkey always seems to be a great place to play football and the stadium absolutely belted out the national anthem. Tremendous stuff.
Right there are five minutes to go!
Let me know your predictions for this one!
Interesting fact about Under, he comes from Altinordu, a club who are trying to emulate Athletic Bilbao in Turkey with their development of young players.
A very interesting concept...
UNDER THE C
As for Turkey their bright hope is the hugely exciting Cengiz Under, who is one of the most promising players in Europe let alone Turkey. It's going to be very interesting to see what sort of problems he can cause the France defence.
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Speaking of Mr Griezmann we know he is leaving Atletico Madrid but we don't know where he is actually going...
Here's Antoine Griezmann warming up.
He is going to be vital tonight for the French.
Ah but you may have noticed that these qualifiers are only providing 20 of the 24 teams.
The final four will be decided by the Nations League.
And in case you needed a reminder of how that works here's a handy video.
QUALIFICATION SCENARIOS
It's obviously a little bit early to talk about who needs what to qualify but it's worth a reminder of how this all works.
There are 24 places at Euro 2020 but there are 12 host counties so there are no automatic qualifiers.
55 nations are competing in qualifying with the top two teams in each of the ten groups providing 20 qualifiers.
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STAT ATTACK
Turkey are yet to concede so far, France will surely test that...