Prematch: Turkey Vs Ivory Coast

Turkey will host the African Elephants at the Izmir Ataturk Stadium, The match will take place on the 11th February 2009. Fatih Terim is still battling with Low for Mesut Ozil, he was called up for the friendly but may not attend.Fatih may choose to use different tactics and call up some players that have a good recent form, such as; Sercan Yildirim, he had a succesful first half of the season. He may also call up Gokhan Unal who has caps for the NT already, Volkan Sen is also showing good form and Eren Gungor also has a good defensive record for Kayserispor. Its good to see Hamit Altintop back in the squad, i was a little supprised to see Halil in the squad as he has been on terrible form.

Squad-

Keepers-
Ufuk Ceylan (Manisaspor)
Volkan Demirel (Fenerbahçe)

Defenders-
Gökhan Gönül (Fenerbahçe)
Sabri Sarıoğlu (Galatasaray)
Servet Çetin (Galatasaray
Hakan Kadir Balta (Galatasaray)
İbrahim Kaş (Getafe)
Eren Güngör (Kayserispor)
Gökhan Zan (Beşiktaş)
Caner Erkin (CSKA Moskova)

Midfielders-
Hamit Altıntop (Bayern Münih)
Kazım Kazım (Fenerbahçe)
Emre Belözoğlu (Fenerbahçe)
Ayhan Akman (Galatasaray)
Mehmet Topal (Galatasaray)
Arda Turan (Galatasaray)
Mehmet Aurelio (Real Betis)
Nuri Şahin (Borussia Dortmund)
Tuncay Şanlı (Middlesbrough)

Attackers-
Halil Altıntop (Schalke 04)
Mevlüt Erdinç (Sochaux)
Batuhan Karadeniz (Eskişehirspor)
Semih Şentürk (Fenerbahçe)
Gökhan Ünal (Trabzonspor)
Mehmet Yıldız (Sivasspor)