- karşılaşmayı kazakistan'dan gelen 10 gazeteci de takip etti.
- statta yapılan anonsta bugünün fifa dünya fair play günü olduğu belirtilerek, centilmenlik çağrısı yapıldı. iki takım kaptanları emre belözoğlu ve nourdauletov maç öncesi ortak metin okuyarak, maçta kurallara uygun olarak centilmence mücadele edeceklerini belirttiler.
- karşılaşmayı az sayıda kazakistanlı taraftar izlerken, rakip takım tribününde bulunan kazak taraftarlar, bulundukları tribünde türk ve kazakistan bayraklarını yan yana koydukları görüldü.
- gençlik ve spor bakanı suat kılıç'ın düzenlediği toplantıya katılmak için istanbul'a gelen spor toto süper lig kulüplerinin başkanları da futbol federasyonunun davetlisi olarak karşılaşmayı izledi.
cumhurbaşkanı abdullah gül, 2012 avrupa futbol şampiyonası elemeleri'nde türkiye ile kazakistan a milli futbol takımları arasında yapılan maçı izlemek üzere türk telekom arena'ya geldi. cumhurbaşkanı gül'ü stat girişinde gençlik ve spor bakanı suat kılıç, istanbul valisi hüseyin avni mutlu, istanbul emniyet müdürü hüseyin çapkın, türkiye futbol federasyonu başkanı mehmet ali aydınlar ile diğer yetkililer karşıladı. cumhurbaşkanı gül, bakan kılıç ile maçı izlemek üzere protokol tribününe geçti.
arda turan's deflected free-kick six minutes into added time earned ten-man turkey a dramatic, and potentially crucial, group a victory.
turkey left it late before earning a dramatic win against kazakhstan in istanbul and taking a potentially crucial step towards the uefa euro 2012 play-offs.
arda turan's deflected free-kick in the sixth minute of added time secured three points for guus hiddink's men, who had just lost playmaker selçuk inan to a red card. with their victory, turkey moved a point clear of group a rivals belgium, frustrated by a late equaliser in azerbaijan, and their position in second place looks all the stronger for their game in hand.
if a red card and winning goal in added time were not sufficient drama, turkey also missed a penalty and had a goal disallowed during a match where they took a first-half lead through burak yılmaz before being pegged back by ulan konysbaev's 55th-minute equaliser.
the evening almost brought an early goal when emre belözğlu was foiled by a goalline clearance and turkey went close again with a burak yılmaz header that flew a whisker wide in the 25th minute. within six minutes, however, the breakthrough came. selçuk was the creator, picking out burak's run into the box with a fine pass which his colleague volleyed home.
it could have been 2-0 after 54 minutes but kazim kazim was foiled by mokin when clean through, and selçuk missed on the follow-up. instead, within 60 seconds, miroslav beranek's visitors drew level as ulan konysbaev, ignoring the two defenders in front of him, beat volkan demirel with a lob that went in off the post.
a mukhtar mukhtarov handball gave turkey the chance of a swift reply but burak, while sending mokin the wrong way, saw the ball come off the post. burak then had a goal disallowed, his header ruled out for a foul on mukhtar mukhtarov. there were further twists to come, however, as two minutes into added time selçuk earned a red card for a dangerous challenge on genrikh shmidtgal. turkey were a man down but they had the last laugh, arda's free-kick deflecting off the kazakhstan wall and wrongfooting mokin. they will aim to keep up the momentum in austria on tuesday.
