Turkey 3 - 1 Kazakhstan: Burak scored twice to earn hosts first point

Burak Yilmaz netted twice as Turkey registered their first victory
of the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign with a 3-1 triumph over
Kazakhstan.
After seeing an early effort ruled out for offside in Istanbul, the
Galatasaray frontman opened the scoring from the spot after 26
minutes, before forcing a mistake from visiting goalkeeper
Alexandr Mokin.
Serdar Aziz stretched the advantage to three with a headed
effort seven minutes from the final whistle, but there was still
time for Samat Smakov to pull one back for the Kazakhs through
a late penalty.
The result lifts Turkey to fourth in Group A, while Kazakhstan
remain without a win.
Volkan Babacan came on as a half-time substitute in Turkey's 4-0
friendly defeat to Brazil on Wednesday, making one particularly
impressive save from a David Luiz header shortly after his
introduction, and was preferred between the sticks to the more
experienced Volkan Demirel for the visit of Kazakhstan.
Babacan – winning just his third cap – had little to do in the
opening stages, though, as the home side made the early
running.
Burak had the ball in the back of the net in the seventh minute,
but had already been flagged for offside and was somewhat
harshly booked for applying the finish.
Half-hearted appeals for a penalty went unrewarded when Arda
Turan was brought down by Renat Abdulin in the Kazakh box
after 20 minutes, and replays suggested the hosts may have
been hard done by.
Burak should have done better when he fired wide unmarked
soon after, but made up for that error by converting from the
penalty spot after being felled by Abdulin.
And the 29-year-old doubled the advantage with a drilled effort
from the edge of the box three minutes later, with goalkeeper
Mokin letting the ball slip through his fingers.
Aziz's glancing header from a corner in the 83rd minute made
sure of the points, but Smakov pulled one level four minutes
later after Ulan Konysbaev was bundled over by Mehmet Topal
in the box.
Arda was booked for diving as he looked to force the referee
into awarding a third penalty of the match, before Aleksey
Shchetkin tested Babacan with a low header at the other end to
no avail.
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