Netherlands v Turkey LIVE: Latest score and goal updates from Euro 2024 quarter-final tonight

The first red flare has been lit and the boos are out whenever the Netherlands have the ball.

And the Dutch have the first chance of the game, as Depay manages to squeeze through the challenges in the box and rifle a shot over and wide!

Should have got that on target.

The Dutch get us underway in the German capital.

Both sides are out of the tunnel and the national anthems are underway.

We’re less than five minutes from kick-off.

Just 10 minutes until kick-off in Berlin, and the other quarter-final of the day has finished.

England are through after beating Switzerland on penalties.

Will this game go the distance? Will the Netherlands dominate, or will Turkey spring a surprise.

These two sides have faced each other 14 times in the past, with the Netherlands winning six, Turkey winning four and four ending as draws.

They first met in 1958, and have since met several times in World Cup qualifying and international friendlies, though they have never met at a major tournament before.

The last two games between the two nations came in the qualifying campaign for the 2022 World Cup. Turkey won 4-2 in the home game thanks to a hatrrick from Burak Yilmaz, though Louis van Gaal’s Netherlands won the return game 6-1 thanks, in part, to a hat-trick from Memphis Depay.

The last two matches between the Netherlands and Turkey have brought a total of 13 goals, after Turkey won 4-2 in March 2021 and the Netherlands won 6-1 in September 2021, during qualifying for the 2022 World Cup.

Then Netherlands have won five of their past seven major tournament quarter-finals, although one of the two exceptions was the most recent, against Argentina at the 2022 World Cup.

Turkey have reached the quarter-final of a major tournament for the fourth time, after Euro 2000, the 2002 World Cup, and Euro 2008. They reached the semi-final of the latter, eventually losing to Germany.

Across the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2024, the only European player with more goals than the Netherlands’ Cody Gakpo (who has six) is Kylian Mbappe (with nine).

With 11 goals either scored or conceded, Netherlands are bettered by only three teams at the tournament at the end of the last 16 for viewing entertainment: Hosts Germany with 12; then Austria, who have gone home, and Turkey, who sent them there, both with 13.

Appropriate, then, that while other quarter-final ties have had the focus on who will win, who will be favourites for overall success and who will get a misfiring forward back on track, the fourth and final tie of the last eight might simply be a shootout from the start, a free-for all with recent history on the line and enormous opportunity ahead.

Simply put, Turkey and Netherlands were not really expected to reach the semi-final stage, but one of them will do so – and will have arguably been the most watchable nation left in the tourmanent by the time they sew up their place.

That is in part because of the end result – goals – but also because the makeup of both sides and the position they were in prior to Euro 2024starting simply lend themselves to a chaotic style of play: they are not the most refined, not the most talented throughout and not even necessarily both at their strongest.

But they’ve found a way to this point.

Turkey have made three changes to the side that squeezed through 2-1 against Austria in the last round.

In defence, the suspended Demiral comes out for Akaydin, with Ayhan moving into midfield and Muldur coming back into a traditional back four.

Salih Özcan comes into midfielder in place of İsmail Yüksek, and he plays deep alongside Ayhan. Hakan Calhanoglu replaces Orkun Kokcu as the advanced midfield player, with the front three staying the same.

Ronaldo Koeman has gone with the same starting eleven that beat Romania 3-0 in the last-16.

Steven Bergwijn starts despite the impressive performance of Donyell Malen in the second half.

Schoeten and Reijnders anchor the midfield once again, with Xavi Simons in the central attacking role.