Euro 2024’s true dark horses step into the light as Turkey stun Austria to reach quarter-finals

Turkey were supposed to be Euro 2020’s dark horses. Maybe everyone whose predictions looked hideously bad when they crashed out with no points and a lone goal merely got the wrong tournament. Three years later they are quarter-finalists, with a plausible route to the final. If Austria were perhaps the best side of the group stages, Spain apart, they were swept out of Euro 2024by Vincenzo Montella’s team, subjected to an assault on the eardrums from Turkey’s fervent support. And caving in at corners.