Euro 2025 Daily: England thrash Wales and avoid Germany, Spain in bracket

The 2025 Women's European Championship is into the last radical games. Let's drawback you up connected what's happening, what you've missed and what's inactive to come.

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The lead: England decorativeness 2nd but get a amended bracket

St. GALLEN, Switzerland -- England comfortably dismantled a spirited Wales side, 6-1, but the fans successful the stands had a divided absorption arsenic they were besides keeping an oculus connected events successful Basel arsenic France took connected Netherlands.

For astir a 3rd of the match, it looked similar England were going to apical the radical (as France were losing 2-1) and extremity up successful arguably the harder broadside of the gully wherever they would look Germany successful the adjacent circular and past a imaginable semifinal with Spain.

Then came the France fightback, arsenic they won 5-2, and England present look Sweden successful Zurich connected Thursday for a spot successful the semifinals.

The Lionesses did their champion to parkland extracurricular sound heading into this match; the absorption were talking astir wanting to gatecrash England's party, and being up for the fight. England responded by saying they are ever nether unit truthful this is thing new. So they did their champion to debar getting drawn into immoderate wider communicative astir this match, different than getting the occupation done.

In the end, it was a comfy lucifer for England who got it each tied up successful the archetypal fractional arsenic Georgia Stanway opened the scoring with a contentious punishment aft 13 minutes, Ella Toone added different successful the 21st infinitesimal and Lauren James helped acceptable up Toone to transverse for Lauren Hemp to motion location the third. Alessia Russo past yet got a well-deserved archetypal extremity of the tourney connected the changeable of half-time arsenic England went into the interruption 4-0 up.

England made 4 changes aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional and sub Aggie Beever-Jones did brilliantly to tee up Beth Mead for a well-taken extremity aft 72 minutes, portion Wales gave their fantastic fans thing to cheer arsenic Jess Fishlock picked retired Hannah Cain for a almighty decorativeness for a consolation. But it was England who enactment the finishing interaction connected the match, with Beever-Jones heading home.

England's tourney started successful the astir alarming mode imaginable arsenic they fell to France 2-1, but they bounced backmost with that rout of the Dutch and finished it up with this procession. They're ticking on nicely, but sterner tests await and they volition fancy their way each the mode to the last now. -- Tom Hamilton

Today's apical Euro 2025 news

- Poland exit Euros with historical triumph implicit Denmark
- Sweden inflict Germany's biggest-ever Euros loss

Sights and sounds astir Euro 2025

A crippled of 2 halves for France sees them decorativeness top

BASEL, Switzerland -- After clawing backmost a 5-2 triumph from a 2-1 deficit, France topped Group D with 3 wins from three. But it mightiness not person been successful their champion interests.

It was not a beauteous evening for Les Blues as Netherlands looked unsafe successful the archetypal half, but 3 goals successful six minutes aft the interruption turned things astir arsenic Netherlands chased the three-goal triumph they needed to sneak done to the knockouts.

If France instrumentality a look astatine the bracket now, though, finishing apical mightiness not connection them their champion accidental of a spot successful the final. They're present drawn into arguably the tougher broadside of the knockouts, facing eight-time winners Germany successful the quarterfinals, with a semifinal against either hosts Switzerland oregon satellite champions Spain to contend with aft that ... yikes. -- Emily Keogh

Wales fans enjoying the spotlight

Wales' hopes of progression to the knockout stages had already been dashed by successive defeats to Netherlands and France, but that didn't halt their service of passionate fans from enjoying the build-up to the clash with England successful St. Gallen.

Fans of some teams gathered extracurricular St. Gallen Cathedral successful the build-up to kickoff. And, portion the England fans launched into a lively chorus of "Football's Coming Home", supporters of Rhian Wilkinson's broadside responded with good-natured taunts of "You're Going Home." -- Beth Lindop

The Wales fans person been a cardinal portion of this competition's tapestry. They've travelled successful their thousands to ticker their squad play successful their archetypal large tournament, and wherever they've gone, they've brought plentifulness of passionateness and song.

The lucifer itself saw a stirring rendition of "Yma o Hyd astatine Kybunpark," and erstwhile the lucifer begun the Welsh chants of "Don't Take maine Home" were matched by England's caller Sarina Wiegman-inspired chant, wherever they've adopted The Champs' 1958 opus "Tequila" to "Sarina."

Watching connected from the stands was Mary Earps, the erstwhile England No.1 goalkeeper. She retired connected the eve of the tourney and witnessed Hannah Hampton support her 2nd cleanable expanse successful arsenic galore matches. England caput through, but the Welsh fans volition beryllium missed. -- Hamilton

Super Swiss

Hosts Switzerland had an unfastened grooming league successful Bern connected Sunday and A LOT of fans came retired to spot them. In fact, determination were astir 3,000, which is hugely awesome fixed the lawsuit was lone announced publically past night!

A quarterfinal with satellite champions Spain awaits, truthful the fans volition privation to savor each moment. -- Marsden

Proud Pantalon

Poland's debut astatine the Euros whitethorn person ended this weekend, but it did truthful with a show that created past and, arsenic manager Nina Pantalon pointed out, deserved to beryllium celebrated precocious into the night.

Pantalon's broadside were competing successful the tourney for the archetypal clip ever and registered their archetypal and points successful the finals successful Saturday's superb 3-2 triumph against 2017 runners-up Denmark.

"It's a large feeling," Pantalon said. "We were truthful looking guardant to that last whistle. Those emotions are inactive with maine and volition astir apt enactment with maine for the remainder of my life. After the game, we'll spell backmost to the hotel, person dinner, and past we'll spot ... This nighttime volition astir apt past a small longer than the others!" -- Sam Marsden

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How Spain and Italy secured their Euro quarterfinal spots

Take a look astatine the stats down Spain's 3-1 triumph implicit Italy, with some teams advancing from Group B.

Spain's time off

Spain spent the play scouting quarterfinal opponents Switzerland -- and conscionable not the team. The players trained connected Saturday greeting and were past fixed until Monday disconnected to disconnect up of Friday's gathering with the hosts.

The players took vantage of the clip disconnected to get retired and research the picturesque surroundings astir their basal successful Lausanne. There were bid rides down Lake Geneva to much distant spots extracurricular the city; immoderate headed to Frience, an outdoor spot known for its earthy swimming pools supra the colony of Leysin; and others adjacent crossed the water into France.

"It's supper important to disconnect," guardant Salma Paralluelo said. "We person respective days earlier the quarterfinal and it's a infinitesimal to marque immoderate plans and bask ourselves disconnected the pitch."

When they instrumentality to grooming connected Monday, manager Montse Tomé volition springiness them the lowdown connected Switzerland. With her coaching staff, she spent the play getting to grips with Pia Sundhage's side. "Just a little," she smiled erstwhile asked if she was going to let herself immoderate clip off. -- Marsden

A peculiar birthday

There volition besides beryllium celebrations erstwhile Spain get backmost to enactment connected Monday arsenic Lucia García turns 27. It volition beryllium a uncommon day for the Monterrey striker arsenic she gets to beryllium the centre of attraction -- which is not usually the lawsuit backmost astatine location arsenic she is simply a quadruplet.

"I person bully memories of birthdays with my 3 brothers, albeit with precise fewer presents," she joked successful an interrogation with ESPN. "One betwixt america ... possibly 1 each. But we person shared unthinkable moments. I don't deliberation galore radical tin accidental they stock their day with 3 siblings!"

But does she person thing peculiar planned to people the occasion?

"My teammates volition bring retired a cake, everyone volition sing and I'll accidental a fewer words," she said. "I inactive haven't thought what I volition say. A fewer phrases and that volition beryllium that." -- Marsden

Star subordinate of the day

Delphine Cascarino

Cascarino acceptable up France's equalizer aft they fell 2-1 down to the Dutch and the San Diego Wave winger past netted a superb onslaught to enactment her broadside ahead. She wasn't done, though, adding a 2nd conscionable 2 minutes aboriginal aft Marie-Antoinette Katoto's changeable bounced disconnected the station and the rebound fell to the 28-year-old. -- Hamilton