Terim waits on team selection

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Terim went into Friday's quarter-final against Croatia in Vienna with just 15 outfield players and with eight of his starting XI on a yellow card, and three of those eight - Tuncay Sanli, Arda Turan and Emre Asik - duly picked up bookings during the match and will be suspended for Wednesday's semi, while captain and talisman Nihat Kahveci is doubtful (suspected groin injury).

"I haven't been able to do any damage assessment yet and I have to go back to hotel and see what damage there is to the team," said Terim following his side's penalty shoot-out victory. "We have injured players and suspended players, so we will have to see about all that."

Turkey have made a habit of claiming comeback victories during Euro 2008, having fought back from deficits to beat both Switzerland and Czech Republic in the group stages.

Against the Swiss, Turkey trailed at half-time and only snatched a 2-1 win thanks to Arda Turan's injury-time strike, while the Czech match was even more dramatic with Terim's men scoring three times in the last 15 minutes to turn a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 win.

Friday's quarter-final success was arguably more dramatic still, with Turkey looking dead-and-buried when Ivan Klasnic headed Croatia ahead in the 119th minute of extra-time.

But Turkey rallied and Semih Senturk's goal deep into injury time at the end of the game sent the contest to penalties, where Terim's men won 3-1.

"This is a team that is two years old basically, and I think that we have worked very hard in last two years and we deserved to be in the semi-final," he said.

"If Croatia had won I would have said they deserved to win, but we won and that's football."