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Euro 2024: Rising stars Gakpo, Guler set for quarters

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Turkey's Arda Guler in action Austria at the Leipzig Stadium during the round of 16 match on Tuesday. [AFP]

Cody Gakpo and Arda Guler endured frustrating seasons but both have established themselves as their teams' vital players as the Netherlands face Turkey in a Euro 2024 quarter-final clash on Saturday in Berlin.

Netherlands won the competition for the first and only time in 1988, with Ronald Koeman, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and Marco van Basten among a talented squad.

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