Czechia 1-2 Turkey: 10-man Czechs are knocked out as Cenk Tosun's injury-time strike earns win for Vincenzo Montella's side... who face Austria next

The A1 autobahn is the longest national motorway in Europe. Wednesday much of it seemed to be clogged with cars carrying Turkey fans to Hamburg, flags draped on the bonnets of Mercedes, flying from windows, and fans crowding the service stations.

They packed into the Volksparkstadion on the edge of the city and, together with a Czechia contingent who know how to make noise of their own, they turned the final group game of this European Championship into a riot of passion and colour and drama and tension and an epidemic of yellow and red cards.

There were 19 in all - 17 yellows and two reds - a record for this tournament. In fact, it smashed the previous record, which was 10. Turkey got 11 on their own. It was hard to keep count.

The match ended with Hungarian referee Istvan Kovacs showing them to practically every player on the pitch and some who had already been substituted and had come running back on.

He had already sent Antonin Barak off in the first half and now he brandished a red at Tomas Chory for his part in the last-gasp melee. The referee was so busy showing cards no one realised the match had ended. It was anarchy.

It was a pulsating game awash with rage and fury. Czechia staged an admirable comeback that unsettled the Turkey fans and gave them plenty of anxious moments as they pressed for a late winner that would have sent Turkey home.

But Turkey clung on and then scored a superb stoppage-time winner through Cenk Tosun that earned them a last-16 tie against Austria in Leipzig on Tuesday. The Czechs finished bottom of the group.

The noise at the start was deafening. 'Tur-kee-eh, Tur-kee-eh, Tur-kee-eh,' the fans yelled, over and over and over again. When the Czechs had the ball, the ground was filled with a din of whistling.

But Czechia started more brightly. They broke away and when the ball came to Lukas Provod, Turkey goalkeeper Mert Gunok had to dive full-length to his left to palm away the fierce 20-yard drive.

The Czechs, though, imploded with ill-discipline. Barak had already been booked for tugging Ferdi Kadioglu back by the shirt and when he overran the ball, he lunged in to try to recover it and stamped on the foot of Kenan Yildiz. The referee produced a second yellow and sent him off.

Yildiz was soon booked for a foul on Robin Hranac and Czechia agitated for a second yellow in as many minutes for him when he leapt for a header with Vladimir Coufal and Coufal went down clutching his head. The referee resisted their entreaties.

Despite their misfortunes and mis-steps, the Czechs still forged the best chance of the half on the stroke of the interval when Provod surged forward from midfield and laid the ball into the path of David Jurasek. Jurasek hit his shot cleanly but Gunok blocked it at close range and Jurasek walked down the tunnel at half-time with his head in his hands.

Five minutes after the break, Turkey took the lead. Baris Alper Yilmaz broke down the right wing and his cut-back led to a goalmouth scramble before Ismail Yuksek pushed the ball into the path of playmaker Hakan Calhanoglu. The Turkey skipper's technique was perfect as he drove the ball into the net.

Czechia's 10 men were level 15 minutes later. Chory jumped with Gunok for a high ball and Gunok could not gather it cleanly. The ball broke loose, Chory had an effort cleared off the line and then Tomas Soucek smashed the ball home. Turkey were furious.

Their bench emptied and another substitute was booked for dissent but they hung on until Tosun cut inside his man in the dying minutes and lashed his shot past the goalkeeper to send the Turkey fans into raptures.