Turkey coach Fatih Terim claimed, for his side, there is "no limit to success" after they had defeated Croatia on penalties to earn a semi-final meeting with Germany. Terim's men looked to be on the way out when Ivan Klasnić struck in the final minute of extra-time, but Semih Şentürk restored parity with the last kick of the game before Turkey triumphed in the shootout. Croatia coach Slaven Bilić said Turkey have the "X-factor" after watching them hit back late on for the third match in succession, but also spoke of his pride in his own side.
Fatih Terim, Turkey coach
I would like to congratulate the Croatia players and coach. It was a good game but that's football. You should never give up until the final whistle, that's what makes football interesting. I congratulate my players, too. Both sides could have won. I think we should be proud and I still have not been able to do any damage assessment. Emre Aşık, Tuncay Şanlı and Arda Turan are all suspended [for the Germany match] because they were booked here, and we have injured players. We have worked very hard over the past two years and deserve to be in this semi-final. If Croatia had won, I would have said they deserved it, too, but I'm very happy we did it. I tell my players never to give up. I set them goals and tell them not to be afraid of losing. I think the Turkish team could do even better. If only we could have the injured players back, but even without them we are special. There is something special about this team.
I hope the people enjoy it and I ask them not to make our joy someone else's tragedy. No win is worth someone's life, so I ask the Turkish people to enjoy themselves, celebrate and have fun but not to hurt anyone when they do it. To lose the chance to win in such a short period of time is a serious mental blow for any team. I thought we would have a chance [in the shootout] because of that. If you look at our adventure we always come back and that's not easy. Let's hope against Germany we can take the lead. There is no limit to success. After Croatia scored I saw players lying on the pitch and I told Arda to get the ball out of the goal and start again. I wasn't giving up. We could have lost but there were things we could do. I always say there is much more we can do as a country of 70 million people and there is more success we can achieve. We seem to come back from the dead. We always do the hard thing not the easy thing which shows how good my team is. When you have
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