What a great game and worth every ‘molecules’ of my sleepiness this morning to watch this game……. and it’s the end of the road for Turkey, the come back king.

Telling you the truth, I was expecting the game will be extended in xtra time and already top-up my special black coffee before the ‘real magic’ Phillip Lahm played a one-two with Thomas Hitzlsperger and showed his remarkable composure to fire past Rustu into the near top corner, sending Germany into the final

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SKY SPORTS -  Philipp Lahm’s last-gasp goal gave Germany a thrilling 3-2 win over Turkey to book their place in the final of Euro 2008.

Full-back Lahm struck in the final minute to finally end depleted Turkey’s dreams of causing a major upset.

Semih Senturk appeared to have sent the game into extra-time when he equalised four minutes from time only for Lahm to win the game for Germany in the 90th minutes

Turkey took the lead midway through the first half when Ugur Boral scrambled the ball home past Jens Lehmann after Colin Kazim-Richards’s looping effort came back off the crossbar.

The lead proved short-lived as Bastian Schweinsteiger equalised for Germany five minutes later when he cleverly flicked in a cross from Lukas Podolski.

Miroslav Klose gave Germany the lead on 79 minutes when he headed home after a mistake by Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber.

Turkey refused to lie down and Semih drew them level when he converted Sabri Sarioglu’s cross at the near post.

The game looked destined to head into extra-time until Lahm played a one-two with Thomas Hitzlsperger to go clear on goal and he kept his cool to drive the ball high past Rustu.

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