The Turkish national football team has played its first match in the World Cup.

Offsideplus.az reports that competing in Group D, the Crescent-Stars faced off against Australia.

The Turkish squad suffered a 2-0 defeat in their opening match. The goals for Australia were scored by Nestory Irankunda and Connor Metcalfe.

Turkey will face Paraguay in their next group stage fixture.

We present the goals from the match below: