Semifinal time for 101SL’s daily 10-point point outlook with no chronological significance at the European Championships (reaction each follows after the game, which Vegas of course isn’t dying for Turkey to win or anything):

1. There can only be one heavy favorite in a game, and it’s clearly the Germans in this sometimes-tricky position of having to stomp a loose spider cornered in a four-wall bedroom.

2. It doesn’t change in Turkey’s depth misfortune one bit that striker Colin Kazim-Richards,  who is likely to make his second start for the depleted tournament darlings today, was once a name prominent among the prospect list in England.

3. Forget the critics, even Joachim Low has to be feeling that the Germans are still looking to play their best ball of the tournament despite being this far along.

4. The Turkish comeback act can’t be a part of the game plan this time with no questionable Swiss/Czech/Croatia-like defense to bank on in the event of an emergency.

5. Everything that happens against Turkey will have a bearing in the weekend title game, something Low will take into account when deciding where to slide Torsten Frings into the scheme.

6. We’ve marveled at Turkey’s offensive ways in the business of deficits … it’s then easy to expect that the underdogs will go all-out for the heavy hits right away instead of peeling back whatever 11 starters end up on the field.

7. Ah, goalkeeper Recber Rustu, how fitting that this very tournament gets him back out into the situation that got him off the bench to begin with.

8. There should be no hesitation to call it what it would be: the biggest upset in German history, how much further than that will be more of a debate.

9. Again, in the interest of getting a head start on the Germany-Spain preview for Sunday, there will be the anxiousness as to how far into the battle the hammer comes down on Turkey.

10. Hamit Altintop’s already-valued role in the Turkish midfield is hundredfold what it was only a week ago today.