Euro 2025 Daily: Hosts Switzerland keep knockout hopes alive

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The lead: Switzerland support knockout hopes alive

Hosts Switzerland kept their hopes of qualifying for the knockouts live with a 2-0 win implicit Iceland connected Sunday.

Géraldine Reuteler netted the archetypal extremity of the evening aft Barcelona youngster Syndey Shertenlieb played a cleanable shot done for the seasoned to finish. Then Alayah Pilgrim went from region to unafraid each 3 points successful the must-win crippled for the hosts.

The location federation were alternatively passive successful beforehand of extremity for astir of the evening, but rebounded to person 15 shots, with caller Manchester City signing Iman Beney proving the champion attacking threat. It was the opening game's subordinate of the match, Reuteler, who clinched the opening extremity and enactment Switzerland successful the champion presumption to advancement retired of the the groups, aft they mislaid 2-1 to radical leaders Norway, who bushed Finland 2-1 successful the earlier game.

Iceland, contempt ranking up of Switzerland, were incapable to make thing worthwhile, though they registered 12 shots arsenic they tried to support their run alive. Ultimately, they are retired of contention to advancement past the radical stage.

Both sides had moments of brilliance successful the archetypal half, but a deficiency of objective finishing successful the last 3rd near them connected an adjacent playing tract and some hoping for thing to spell their way. The hosts had the shot successful the backmost of the nett via an ain extremity but it was ruled retired by VAR for a foul successful the buildup.

The triumph leaves Switzerland successful presumption to suffice retired of the radical stage, providing they bushed Finland successful the last game. Iceland, though, are retired of the tourney altogether.

Group A was determined to beryllium the easiest group, but it is providing the aforesaid magnitude of play arsenic expected for specified a adjacent tournament. -- Emily Keogh

Today's apical Euro 2025 news

- Germany fearfulness for Gwinn wounded aft tearful exit
- Miedema nets 100th extremity for Netherlands
- Williamson: England nonaccomplishment owed to 'cheap' defending

Sights and sounds astir Euro 2025

Norway permission it precocious against Finland

Norway person done an unthinkable occupation of bottling immoderate mislaid luck from erstwhile tournaments and utilizing it successful Euro 2025. An ain extremity helped them to 3 points successful their tricky opener against hosts Switzerland, and vs. Finland connected Sunday they rode their luck erstwhile again to assertion a triumph which would not lone publication their spot successful the knockouts, but besides arsenic radical winners aft the Swiss triumph later. It required a fluke transverse from the ascendant Caroline Graham Hansen, which floated successful disconnected the station to springiness them a 2-1 victory.

Norway had led aft lone 3 minutes, acknowledgment to different ain goal, this clip from Eva Nyström, but Finland were ascendant for truthful overmuch of the lucifer successful Sion. Norway had their outstanding goalkeeper, Cecilie Fiskerstrand, blocking thing and everything that came her way.

Finland dominated the midfield successful the archetypal half, starring to Norway manager Gemma Grainger making 2 changes astatine the break. Still, Finland equalled things up arsenic they recovered it casual to get done Norway's defence for Oona Sevenius to score. They were unlucky not to beryllium leading, and past Ada Hegerberg's squad recovered that fortunate victor successful the 84th minute.

There'll beryllium alleviation for Norway: this is the archetypal clip they've made it done their radical since Euro 2013, but equally, they're not yet playing up to the sum of their parts. So acold they look to beryllium surviving disconnected fortune, alternatively than a program to get the champion retired of their endowment and experience. -- Tom Hamilton

Spain stars look to play their cards right

Pirates and mermaids are helping Spain foster squad tone astatine their basal successful Lausanne, wherever the squad walk their escaped clip captivated by array games. Skull King is simply a peculiar favourite, a paper crippled akin to Hearts oregon Spades but with a pirate twist. The champion paper is not the pirate card, though, of which determination are 5 successful the deck. The pirate cards are trumped by the 2 mermaid cards and, of course, by the solitary Skull King.

"We're hooked connected array games," defender Laia Aleixandri told ESPN. "We're having a large clip playing them. We emotion them and it's besides clip we walk together. I besides similar to disconnect by speechmaking and painting, erstwhile I can." -- Sam Marsden

England effort to reset aft France defeat

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England campy 'positive' contempt opening decision to France

Lotte Wubben-Moy discusses however the England squad are feeling aft their 2-1 nonaccomplishment to France.

England held their unfastened grooming time connected Sunday, successful beforehand of respective 100 fans astatine their basal astatine Sportlange Au. It's successful the municipality of Opfikon and is the location of section broadside FC Glattbrugg. The club's womens' and girls' teams were there, arsenic were supporters from section teams and schools. The politician of Opfikon was successful attendance and made a presumption to the players.

But supra all, this was England trying to determination connected from Saturday night's 2-1 decision to France. Those who had a fewer minutes and non-playing squad members were engaged successful small-sided games -- with Aggie Beever-Jones appealing to the watching media astatine 1 signifier for VAR-type guidance connected 1 extremity -- arsenic those connected the fringes tried to unit their mode into contention for Wednesday's cardinal lucifer against Netherlands.

Against the backmost of the grooming transportation is simply a gym, with cryotherapy chambers outside. The FA's unit from St George's Park person been moving with the Sportlange Au unit to guarantee the transportation was successful pristine information for the Lionesses. -- Hamilton

Belgium tune up for Spain test

How bash you hole to look satellite champions Spain? By heading to the mountains and indulging the Swiss contented of blowing an alphorn if you're Belgium, apparently.

The Red Flames squad took portion successful a affable contention among themselves to spot who could stroke the alphorn, traditionally utilized by Swiss herders to pass crossed mountains, for the longest time.

A agelong woody horn, it takes accomplishment and enactment power to decently nutrient the echoing code that travels done the mountains. It proved excessively hard for galore players to onslaught a sound, though not each of them: Sevilla's Jassina Blom was the victor with a clip of 32.47 seconds.

Then it was backmost to the squad edifice for a squad BBQ ... and a falcon show! -- Marsden

Practice makes ... perfect?

Vivianne Miedema scored her 100th extremity for Netherlands successful the 3-0 win implicit Wales connected Saturday. It was a emblematic Miedema goal, but the solemnisation was acold from great.

"It didn't look good," Miedema admitted. "We had practiced earlier the match, but it didn't travel off. We ended up doing thing truly weird. It didn't spell rather right."

Manchester City teammate Kerstin Casparij and aboriginal Chelsea-defender Veerle Buurman had gone done the solemnisation connected the greeting of the game, but nerves made them hide each astir it.

Casparij should person spelled the initials V.M., but spelled V.W. Miedema should person held up 1 digit and a zero -- for 100 goals -- but held up conscionable 1 zero. Buurman held up a zero and a one. The result? V. W. 001. Perhaps adjacent clip a somersault, similar she did erstwhile she passed Manon Melis arsenic the all-time apical scorer for the Dutch, is simply a amended idea.

Asllani gives up milestone jersey to fan

Sweden guardant Kosovare Asllani has a instrumentality for beingness aft donating the garment from her 200th planetary quality to a pistillate successful the stands successful Geneva connected Friday. After becoming conscionable the ninth European subordinate to scope the landmark, you would person forgiven her for wanting to sphere the jersey for her idiosyncratic collection. Instead, she handed it to a supporter, making her time successful the process.

"Give the shot to Asllani more," the recipient said erstwhile asked however Sweden tin amended connected their 1-0 opening-game triumph implicit Denmark. -- Marsden

Language obstruction ... x4!

For supporters travelling to aggregate cities crossed Switzerland for this summer's tournament, there's 1 important information to beryllium alert of. Bordered by 5 abstracted countries (France, Italy, Germany, Lichtenstein and Austria), Switzerland has 4 authoritative languages: French, German, Italian and Romansh. The German portion (Deutschschweiz) is mostly successful the east, northbound and centre; the French portion (la Romandie) successful the west; and the Italian country (Svizzera italiana) successful the south. The chances are, if you are attending aggregate games, you'll get accustomed to proceeding a assortment of antithetic languages.

When I was travelling betwixt Thun and Geneva a fewer days ago, for example, it was truly absorbing to enactment however rapidly the connection shifted mid-journey from predominantly German to French. Some places, specified arsenic Bern, are officially bilingual. It's been a beauteous humbling acquisition arsenic a Brit with lone a precise flimsy grasp of French. Fortunately, astir radical present talk English too. It has decidedly inspired maine to get connected Duolingo erstwhile I get backmost to the UK! -- Beth Lindop

A existent footwear successful the teeth for Harder

As if losing to Sweden wasn't achy enough, Denmark prima Pernille Harder woke up connected Saturday with a large swollen precocious lip. The Bayern Munich guardant says she tripped and clattered into the backmost of an opponent's boot. Luckily, beyond the aesthetics of the injury, she allayed fears it volition bounds her quality to hole for upcoming games against Germany and Poland.

"It doesn't look that good, but I'm fine, honestly," she told reporters. "Fortunately it doesn't wounded excessively overmuch and it won't impact training." -- Marsden

Star subordinate of the day

Caroline Graham Hansen, Norway

Caroline Graham Hansen, connected people for her 2nd Ballon d'Or nomination, secured Norway's pathway retired of the radical stage, netting the winning goat of their 2-1 triumph implicit Finland successful Sion.

The vice skipper struck successful the 84th infinitesimal aft an own-goal talented Norway an aboriginal enactment of relief. Oona Sevenius got Finland backmost connected a level playing tract earlier Graham Hansen secured each 3 points and a spot successful the knockouts.

The Barcelona winger had a pugnacious opening crippled against Switzerland, struggling to interruption into the game, get connected the shot oregon marque thing immoderate of her chances. Untimely though, Norway are the archetypal squad into the quarterfinals, providing a pathway for the 30-year-old to marque a 2nd Ballon d'Or push. -- Keogh

Match previews, likelihood for Monday

Spain vs. Belgium

Odds (via ESPN BET): Spain (-3000), Draw (+1200), Belgium (+2900)

Belgium manager Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir says she's identified weaknesses successful Spain arsenic her broadside look the unenviable task of stopping the satellite champions to support their Euros hopes alive.

After losing to Italy, Belgium realistically request astatine slightest a constituent to support their qualification hopes alive. Gunnarsdóttir is nether nary illusions of the standard of the task, but says the Red Flames tin instrumentality vantage of their tallness astatine acceptable plays to harm Spain. She besides pointed retired the harm her squad did to La Roja on the counter-attack successful the Nations League earlier this year, erstwhile they led 2-0 earlier succumbing to a 3-2 defeat.

Favourites Spain, meanwhile, could invited Cata Coll, Irene Paredes and Aitana Bonmatí backmost into their XI aft opening with a 5-0 rout of Portugal. -- Marsden

Portugal vs. Italy

Odds (via ESPN BET): Portugal (+380), Draw (+280), Italy (-145)

While Spain are the overwhelming favourites to apical Group B, determination is apt to beryllium fierce contention for that 2nd summons to the knockout stages.

Aside from the satellite champions, Italy are the highest-ranked squad successful the radical and got their run disconnected to a winning commencement with a constrictive triumph implicit Belgium. Portugal are the lowest-ranked squad successful the radical and fell to a bruising 5-0 nonaccomplishment to Spain. But with elimination connected the line, Francisco Neto's broadside volition beryllium anxious to bounce backmost successful benignant successful Geneva connected Monday.

Victories for some Spain and Italy volition wrapper up the apical 2 spots. -- Lindop