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Up-to-the-Second Score: Brazil 1, Turkey 0 -- FINAL
FULLTIME MATCH REPORT
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90'+4 -- Final whistle blows, and Brazil celebrates 1-0 victory. In a tournament full of surprise results, Sunday's final pits two traditional superpowers -- Brazil and Germany -- who were not widely regarded as being in top form entering the tournament. Turkey plays South Korea on Saturday for third place.
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90'+3 -- Ilhan heads over the bar from 12 yards on cross from Sas.
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90'+3 -- Turkey loses possession when Ilhan attempts backheel in penalty area.
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90'+1 -- Sas fouls Cafu after losing possession on counterattack following Brazil's short corner kick, which was won by Denilson.
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90'+1 -- Sas cautioned for foul in right corner.
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90' -- Chased by four players, Denilson wins a freekick on the right.
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89' -- Rivaldo tries a chip from outside penalty area, but it falls right into the arms of Rustu.
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88' -- Turkey sub: Arif on for Basturk.
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87' -- Cafu slides to take ball away from Ergun on left inside penalty area.
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87' -- Denilson shot from 22 yards is saved with no danger.
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85' -- Brazil sub: Belletti on for Kleberson, who is stretchered off.
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84' -- Ilhan Mansiz sends a shot far over the bar.
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83' -- Turkey holds the possession advantage, 56 percent to 44 percent, but Brazil leads in shots (15-6) and shots on goal (9-3).
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81' -- Marcos dives left to save goalbound shot by Sukur, who took Sas' freekick from left over his shoulder and held off defender to get in a clean volley.
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80' -- Denilson lobs a half-volley over the goal with Rustu off his line.
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79' -- Turkey fails to get off a shot after a brief opening in the penalty area.
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78' -- Turkey corner kick is headed away from near post; kick awarded when Ilhan Mansiz's shot from a bad angle is tipped past top right corner by Marcos.
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77' -- Ergun Penbe mis-hit over endline gives Brazil a goal kick.
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75' -- Brazil sub: Denilson on for Edilson.
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74' -- Turkey sub: Muzzy Izzet on for Umit Davala.
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73' -- Sukur flicks on a Turkey freekick, but Marcos catches it without trouble.
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72' -- Luizao bounces a scissors kick over the goal and into the top-netting, off a cross from Cafu on the right side.
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71' -- Rustu comes out to win a tackle with his feet outside the penalty area.
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70' -- Rivaldo breaks out past two players in center circle and feeds Luizao on right side of penalty area, but his cross is far over the head of Edilson.
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68' -- Brazil sub: Luizao on for Ronaldo.
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62' -- Turkey sub: Ilhan Mansiz on for Emre Belozoglu.
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62' -- Kleberson's open shot is saved with ease by Rustu.
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61' -- Rustu comes out to gather the rebound after Roberto Carlos' freekick from 30 yards hits the defensive wall.
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60' -- Tugay cautioned for foul on Rivaldo.
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58' -- Fatih Akyel knocks ball over endline just in time to prevent a point-blank effort by Edilson; Rivaldo's corner kick is cleared.
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56' -- Marcos pushes deflected shot over the bar; Sas' corner kick deflects through the penalty area and out for a Brazil throw.
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52' -- Roberto Carlos fails to get in a second-chance cross at endline after Brazil corner kick is cleared.
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49' -- GOAL BRAZIL. Ronaldo scores with a right-footed toe-poke in stride from 16 yards, off Rustu's fingertips and in off the right post. He is surrounded by three players, but none closes in for the tackle. Ronaldo leads all scorers in the World Cup with six goals.
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47' -- Sukur turns but can't feed Sas at edge of penalty area; Basturk fouls Lucio as he breaks out on counterattack.
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46' -- Brazil kicks off the second half.
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| Second Half |
45'+2 -- Halftime whistle blows with score tied 0-0. Turkey holds the possession advantage, 54 percent to 46 percent, but Brazil leads in shots (9-5) and shots on goal (7-2).
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45' -- Rustu in shaken up when he dives to knock ball away from Edilson, after having failed to hold on to Roberto Carlos' cross from the left.
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43' -- Rustu save on Roberto Carlos, who cuts across the top of the penalty box and shoots low with his right foot.
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42' -- Emre Belozoglu curls 23-yard freekick over the goal, after a long delay to push the wall back 10 yards.
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41' -- Gilberto cautioned for pulling the shirt of Yildiray Basturk, who had picked up a loose ball and headed toward the penalty area.
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38' -- Rustu dives off line five yards to snare cross from right side before Rivaldo can get a foot on it.
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36' -- Brazil swoops in on attack, with Edilson passing to Rivaldo, whose shot from just outside the penalty area whistles inches wide of the right post.
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35' -- Rustu dives left to save hard shot from Rivaldo; resulting corner kick is cleared.
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34' -- Sas gets space on right side at edge of penalty area sends his pass behind Sukur, who can't reach it.
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33' -- Rustu goes low to save Roberto Carlos' freekick from some 40 yards out.
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29' -- Turkey corner kick is cleared, with Brazil having kicked ball out to stop Sas' counterattack.
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28' -- Brazil corner kick is cleared, with Edilson having earned the opportunity dribbling on the left wing.
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23' -- Rivaldo's shot from outside the area is saved by Rustu, who is then forced to save Ronaldo's point-blank shot off the rebound.
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22' -- Roberto Carlos cuts inside the penalty area and sends a right-footed shot wide of the near post.
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21' -- Ronaldo feeds Cafu on the right side of the penalty area, and his shot from a tight angle nearly makes it under Rustu, but he knocks it away.
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20' -- Marcos dives out to punch away corner kick.
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20' -- Marcos dives right to knock away Alpay Ozalan's 13-yard header, which was headed to the corner of the goal off a cross from the right side.
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17' -- Long Roberto Carlos throw-in is headed away.
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16' -- Another Roberto Carlos cross is cleared without trouble.
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15' -- Emre Belozoglu called for fouling Edmilson from behind as he shepherds ball toward the right corner.
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14' -- Sliding tackle prevents pass from reaching Ronaldo at edge of penalty area.
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13' -- Roberto Carlos slams a cross/shot from 35 yards, but it is cleared with ease.
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10' -- Ergun Penbe's cross from left side goes over the endline and into the side-netting.
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9' -- Marcos punches away Emre Belozoglu's freekick inswinging from the right side, which was awarded when Roberto Carlos obstructed Fatih Akyel.
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7' -- Emre Belozoglu's low, left-footed shot from outside the penalty area is scooped up easily by Marcos.
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6' -- Rustu comes out to catch Kleberson's corner kick from the left side.
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4' -- Sukur takes a nudge in the back and can't reach Fatih Akyel's cross from right side.
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3' -- Rivaldo's inwsinging corner kick is headed away at near post.
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2' -- Lucio makes a long run down right wing to earn corner kick.
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1' -- Turkey kicks off to get match under way.
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Kickoff at 7:30 a.m. EDT; 11:30 a.m. GMT. Winner goes to the final in Yokohama on June 30 to face Germany; loser plays South Korea for third place in Daegu on June 29. Brazil in yellow jerseys; Turkey in red. Brazil won a first-round matchup between the two teams on a controversial penalty kick. (All references to "right" and "left" are from the perspective of the attacking team, unless otherwise noted.)
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