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FACTBOX: Germany v Turkey

Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:20pm EDT

(Reuters) - Germany play Turkey in the semi-finals of Euro 2008 on Wednesday (all times GMT)

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Where: St Jakob Park, Basel

Capacity: 40,000

When: Wednesday June 25, 1845

Referee: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)

Teams: Likely formation, shirt numbers, age, caps and goals

Germany (4-5-1) Turkey (4-4-2)

1-Jens Lehmann 38-59-0 1-Rustu Recber 35-117-0

3-Arne Friedrich 29-59-0 22-Hamit Altintop 25-46-2

17-Per Mertesacker 23-47-1 16-Ugur Boral 26-9-0

21-Christoph Metzelder 27-45-0 4-Gokhan Zan 26-21-0

16-Philipp Lahm 24-45-2 3-Hakan Balta 25-12-1

7-Bastian Schweinsteiger 23-54-14 20-Sabri Sarioglu 23-16-1

6-Simon Rolfes 26-11-0 10-Gokdeniz Karadeniz 28-48-6

13-Michael Ballack 31-85-38 6-Mehmet Topal 22-8-0

15-Thomas Hitzlsperger 26-36-5 7-Mehmet Aurelio 30-22-1

20-Lukas Podolski 23-52-28 18-Kazim Kazim 21-6-0

11-Miroslav Klose 30-79-40 9-Semih Senturk 25-8-3

Also available:

12-Robert Enke 30-1-0 12-Tolga Zengin 24-2-0

23-Rene Adler 23-0-0 21-Mevlut Erdinc 21-5-0

2-Marcell Jansen 22-25-1 19-Ayhan Akman 31-10-1

4-Clemens Fritz 27-18-2 5-Emre Belozoglu 27-57-4

5-Heiko Westermann 24-3-0

8-Torsten Frings 31-75-10

14-Piotr Trochowski 24-12-0

19-David Odonkor 24-16-1

9-Mario Gomez 22-13-6

22-Kevin Kuranyi 26-49-19

10-Oliver Neuville 35-69-10

18-Tim Borowski 28-33-2

Coach: Joachim Loew Fatih Terim

Injured: None 13-Emre Gungor (calf)

8-Nihat Kahveci (thigh)

2-Servet Cetin (knee)

11-Tumer Metin (groin)

Suspended: None 23-Volkan Demirel (one match)

14-Arda Turan (one match)

17-Tuncay Sanli (one match)

15-Emre Asik (one match)

Changes:

Turkey have eight players out through injury or suspension and Emre Belozoglu has only a 50 percent chance of being fit. Mehmet Aurelio returns from a one-match ban but Arda Turan, Tuncay Sanli, Emre Asik and Volkan Demirel are all suspended. Nihat Kahveci is out of the tournament with a thigh injury.

Germany coach Joachim Loew is expected to name the team that started the 3-2 quarter-final win over Portugal.

Key stats:

* Turkey have committed the most fouls in the tournament (87) and have collected the most yellow cards (14).

* West Germany/Germany have won four of their five previous European Championship semi-finals in 1972, '76, '92 and '96 with their only defeat coming against Netherlands at Euro 88.

Previous meetings:

17.06.1951 Fr Berlin West Germany 1 Turkey 2

21.11.1951 Fr Istanbul Turkey 0 West Germany 2

17.06.1954 WCF Berne West Germany 4 Turkey 1

23.06.1954 WCF Zurich West Germany 7 Turkey 2

28.09.1963 Fr Frankfurt West Germany 3 Turkey 0

12.10.1966 Fr Ankara Turkey 0 West Germany 2

17.10.1970 ECQ Cologne West Germany 1 Turkey 1

25.04.1971 ECQ Istanbul Turkey 0 West Germany 3

20.12.1975 Fr Istanbul Turkey 0 West Germany 5

1.04.1979 ECQ Izmir Turkey 0 West Germany 0

22.12.1979 ECQ Gelsenkirchen West Germany 2 Turkey 0

23.04.1983 ECQ Izmir Turkey 0 West Germany 3

26.10.1983 ECQ Berlin West Germany 5 Turkey 1

30.10.1992 Fr Gelsenkirchen Germany 1 Turkey 0

10.10.1998 ECQ Bursa Turkey 1 Germany 0

9.10.1999 ECQ Munich Germany 0 Turkey 0

8.10.2005 Fr Istanbul Turkey 2 Germany 1

Germany's Euro 2008 results

Group B

Sunday June 8

Germany 2 Poland 0

Lukas Podolski 20,72

Thursday June 12

Croatia 2 Germany 1

Lukas Podolski 79

Monday June 16

Austria 0 Germany 1

Michael Ballack 49

Quarter-final

Thursday June 19

Portugal 2 Germany 3

Bastian Schweinsteiger 22, Miroslav Klose 26, Michael Ballack 61

Turkey's Euro 2008 results

Group A

Saturday June 7

Portugal 2 Turkey 0

Wednesday June 11

Switzerland 1 Turkey 2

Semih Senturk 57, Arda Turan 90+2

Sunday June 15

Turkey 3 Czech Republic 2

Arda Turan 75, Nihat Kahveci 87,89

Quarter-final

Friday June 20

Croatia 1 Turkey 1 aet. Turkey win 3-1 on penalties

Semih Senturk 120+2

(Compiled by Patrick Johnston; editing by Ken Ferris)
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