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Lewis Ambrose·3 juillet 2025
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Lewis Ambrose·3 juillet 2025
The Women's EURO is underway! We have one day of action behind us and the games will be coming thick and fast from now on.
Here are our Day One headlines and the Day Two stories to have an eye on ...
All eyes were on the hosts and Switzerland did not disappoint, even if their result did. Up against a Norway side with serious pedigree, the hosts were the better side in front of over 34,000 fans in Basel but lost 2-1 having scored the opening goal.
Before that one, Finland kicked off the tournament with a win over Iceland. Katariina Kosola scored the game's only goal (and the first of the entire tournament) after Iceland had lost captain and star defender Glódís Viggósdóttir to an early injury.
Group B gets underway with Belgium taking on Italy, a crucial clash between the two sides with hopes of qualifying from a group that also contains world champions Spain.
Spain themselves will be in action as they take on Portugal in the second game of the day.
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Spain and Barcelona winger Clàudia Pina knows where the goal is. With teams who dominate possession, there is often a concern that they lack the cutting edge. And when there's a player who is all about that cutting edge, there's a concern that they don't fit the team's way of playing.
Pina can do both, offering quality on the ball, and an incredible feel for when to be more direct and offer runs in behind. It has made her indispensable at Barcelona but the 23-year-old played just 34 minutes at Euro 2022 and didn't feature at the 2023 World Cup: it's time for her big moment on the international stage.
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Everyone will be looking at world champions Spain, but the other game today — Belgium Vs. Italy — could be crucial in the fight to join Spain in the quarter-finals.
Italy's football is easy on the eye, with the game running through the talented Manuela Giugliano in midfield, and they have developed enough to be considered dark horses to go on a real run this summer. With Belgium, you're never sure which side is going to show up: they're equally capable of great results and real capitulations.
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