Euro 2016: Spain beat Turkey by 3-0

Goals from Ivan Perisic and Ivan Rakitic had given Croatia a well-deserved 2-0 lead. “Two years ago, I was watching on the television and now I’m here”, he said.

“No one would have expected us to be in this position after our first two games”, said Chelsea bound Conte.

In the next tour, on June 21 Croatia will play Spain and the Czech Republic will the same day play Turkey.

European football’s governing body UEFA are poised to impose further sanctions on the Croatian Football Federation for the crowd trouble.

Turkey’s fans were noisy in Nice, but their team were humbled.

However, Cacic was furious at the behavior of the supporters, describing those responsible for the incidents as “sports terrorists”.

“They don’t deserve to sit in stands”, he said. It’s a group of maybe six, seven or 10 individuals.

“These people are really scary, that is why I call them hooligans”. Spain won its second straight game when it beat Turkey 3-0 in the group’s other match.

In Spain teams, that can mean showing some patience.

That result means that Turkey will need to beat the Czech Republic in their final game to have a chance of staying in the competition.

The Celta Vigo player scored five goals in his last five appearances for Spain and produced a tireless effort to help his country earn all three points.

“We have completed our first objective, to qualify for the next round, we controlled the game nearly for the whole 90 minutes and we scored goals, so it was flawless”, Del Bosque said.

After searching in vain, Spain finally found the key on 34 minutes when Nolito’s flawless cross was headed home by Morata. “We will have to do the best we can to play our own game”, Terim said. We should keep our form and see what will happen in the next fixture.

He added: “I’m very happy with the game that the team played, with the goals, and with being here”.

Friday night’s goalscoring exploits will come as a major relief to the Spain camp, because the meeting with Turkey was a crucial one for the forwards, especially Morata.

Spain remains unbeaten in 14 games at the European Championship, and hasn’t lost since a 1-0 defeat to Portugal in 2004.

A dour match ensued between Italy and Sweden at the Stadium Municipal on Friday, with Inter Milan striker Éder netting an 88th minute victor as the match ended 1-0.

Morata scored a pair of good centre-forward’s goals against Turkey in Nice.

He got off to an inauspicious start in Italy when he suffered a knee injury in his very first training session and was sent off in a fiery win over AS Roma in only his fourth outing. It was in the qualifying stages against Bulgaria. The Celta Vigo forward – chosen over Chelsea’s Pedro Rodriguez in the starting XI – is a potent threat cutting inside from the left flank and his excellent dribbling abilities make him even more risky.

Brazil-born striker Eder overcame an otherwise patchy performance to hit a cracking late victor in a 1-0 victory over Sweden that sent Italy into the last 16.

Nolito had created a telling impact in the first half with three shots, four crosses, two chances created, 86 per cent pass accuracy, one goal and one assist.

Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic was once again kept quiet.