Turkey battering leaves Netherlands risking Euro exit

The Netherlands' hopes of making the Euro 2016 finals hung by a thread on Sunday after last year's World Cup semifinalist was convincingly downed 3-0 by Turkey.

In front of 40,000supporters creating a hostile atmosphere in the packed-out Konya arena, Turkey combined cohesion with physicality as the Dutch fell short in every department.

An early strike by Oguzhan Ozyakup of Besiktas was followed by a second from Barcelona's Arda Turan and then a killer third from Burak Yilmaz.