False start against Turkey
One minute played and Austria are behind
What a bitter start for Austria's national soccer team in the European Championship round of 16 against Turkey! After just one minute, Ralf Rangnick's team were behind against their supposedly weaker opponents.
A few seconds after the kick-off, the referee pointed to the corner flag for the first time. The cross found its recipient in Christoph Baumgartner, who was unfortunate enough to direct the ball at Stefan Poschs, from where it ended up with Merih Demiral shortly afterwards.
European Championship record
All the central defender had to do was dust off the ball - 1:0 for Turkey after just 57 seconds of play. Demiral thus set a record, his goal being the earliest ever scored in the knockout phase of a European Football Championship.
On the very second day of the tournament, the fastest goal in European Championship history had already been scored: The Albanian Nedim Bajrami scored the 1:0 after 23 seconds in the 2:1 defeat against Italy.
That hasn't happened since 1965
For the ÖFB team, however, Demiral's goal was the earliest conceded in an international match since October 31, 1965, when Jürgen Nöldner scored for the GDR in the World Cup qualifiers in front of 95,000 spectators, also in the first minute and also in Leipzig, to secure a 1-0 victory.
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