00:11And we talk about the Football World Cup.
00:13Turkey and Paraguay faced off in Group D match at the 2026 FIFA World Cup,
00:18where Paraguay was victorious.
00:20Our correspondent, Yunus Sonner, with more details.
00:24Hello, Yunus. Welcome to From the South.
00:31In Turkey, where the country has gathered at 5 o'clock in the morning,
00:38local time to watch the second game of the national team against Paraguay
00:43after having been beaten by Australia in the first match by 2-0.
00:49And Paraguay also had lost its first match against the United States,
00:53the other team in the same group by 4-1.
00:56So for both teams, Turkey and Paraguay, it was a quite decisive win.
01:02They needed to score at least one point to keep in the tournament
01:06or better win the game.
01:08And it started very fast on the Paraguayan side.
01:12The team of Paraguay scored the fastest goal in this tournament until now,
01:17in the second minute by taking the lead 1-2-0.
01:21Turkey responded by pressuring Paraguay.
01:23The public opinion here expected the Paraguayan team to be defensive.
01:28But of course, the 1-0 lead of Paraguay changed the calculus on the Turkish side.
01:34So, Turkey was pressuring and kept on pressuring throughout the game over the entire game.
01:41The Turkish team had a ball possession of 78% while Paraguay only had 22%.
01:47And something dramatic happened in the 45th minute when a Paraguayan player received a red card
01:55because of speaking to a Turkish player by hiding his lips with a hand.
02:03So this is a new rule introduced on this World Cup.
02:06If you do that, whatever you say behind closed mouth, you get a straight red card.
02:12And that happened.
02:13And from then on and throughout the second half, Paraguay had to play with only 10 players.
02:19A strong challenge for the team of South America.
02:23But they managed to keep the lead until the very 19th minute by a strong defensive action.
02:30Turkey kept on pressuring, kept on pressuring.
02:32But despite several shots on goal, shots on target, they did not succeed in achieving a goal.
02:40In result, Turkey has been eliminated now from the World Cup finals after having lost the second game.
02:50Again, without a goal, Turkey will face on Friday the United States in the team's last match.
02:57But it has no chance anymore to come to the next level in the tournament while Paraguay still maintains its
03:05hope.
03:06Paraguay will play against Australia about the second place in this group, a better chance to get to the next
03:13step of the tournament.
03:15So the South American team has succeeded in a decisive and existential victory in the game played in the San
03:25Francisco Stadium in the United States.
03:27While here in Turkey already discussions have started about whether the choice of the team manager, Vincenzo Mantello, were always
03:37very correct.
03:38He's of Italian origin claims to be more Turkish than a lot of Turks, but he was criticized for the
03:44choosing of his players and also for the lack of tactics against very defensive players.
03:50Actually, the match we saw today against Paraguay was a carbon copy of the match that Turkey had played against
03:58Australia, another very defensive team, another team that took the lead against Turkey very early and succeeded in defending this
04:06lead.
04:06So great disappointment here in Turkey after a very ambitious positioning in the World Cup with a team comprised of
04:16a number of stars playing in Real Madrid, Juventus, Turin, Inter Milan and elsewhere in Europe.
04:22So a number of young stars hopes were very high to get to have a successful World Cup here.
04:31But they were destroyed today. These hopes were destroyed today. Still, the team is young.
04:36Many we talked to who watched the game said this team is a young team. The players are young players.
04:42So there is hope for the next matches or for the next tournament.
04:46But today the sensation in Turkey is disappointment, clear disappointment and emerging debates about the tactics applied in this World
04:58Cup finals and the position of the team manager, the Italian Vincenzo Montelli.
05:11As a matter of fact, yes, you know, Paraguay made was emerged as a winner, but we have to recognize
05:18that Turkey played a very good game.
05:21Thank you, you know, for these latest information on the World Cup. We continue with more. Thank you for your
05:27time with us.
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