As things stand, England will top Group D. France are currently trailing Netherlands in Basel.
That, of course, could change in the second half.
England v Wales: Women’s Euro 2025 – live | Women’s Euro 2025
Published: 2025-07-13 20:57:12 | Views: 15
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HALF-TIME: England 4-0 Wales
A dominant first-half display from the Lionesses. They have surely confirmed their place in the quarter-finals.
45+6 min: Huge chance for Wales as Hampton passes the ball straight out to Fishlock on the edge of the box. The midfielder takes a touch before shooting, but drags her strike wide!
45+4 min: Wales have a corner. The initial cross is headed out but falls to Rowe on the edge of the box. She goes for the shot but her effort narrowly flies over.
45+2 min: England go for goal again as Hemp crosses the ball into the box. It falls to James in the centre, who goes for the half-volley but her attempt flies over the crossbar.
We’re into five minutes of added time.
45 min: A brilliant team goal from the Lionesses. Toone and James play a one-two on the right before the Manchester United star drills a cross into the box. Russo gets onto the end of it and passes her shot into the bottom-left corner!
GOAL! England 4-0 Wales (Alessia Russo, 44)
Russo finally gets her goal! That one surely won’t get ruled out!
41 min: James reacts quickly to steal the ball from Holland while she is attempting to bring it down. She makes a dash for the line before sending a cross to Russo, but the striker can’t get a touch on it.
Brilliant work from the Chelsea star.
39 min: Bronze plays a cross deep into the box. Once again, Hemp gets onto the end of it but her headed effort is off-target.
38 min: Holland makes her way past Bronze before attempting to play a pass through to Morgan, but Williamson gets back to intercept.
36 min: England are piling the pressure on Wales. Rhian Wilkinson’s side are struggling to get out of their own half, and when they do, they can’t make the most of their chances.
33 min: Clark goes down in the box and both teams take the opportunity to have a water break.
31 min: Bronze, James and Toone play the ball around in a triangle on the right. James waits before playing a pass to Toone on the overlap. The midfielder goes for the cross and finds Hemp at the back post, who converts a relatively simple header to get her first goal of the tournament.
GOAL! England 3-0 Wales (Lauren Hemp, 30)
Hemp makes it three! England are really flying now!
28 min: Wales break forward and their attack culminates in Fishlock playing the ball to James on the edge of the box, who goes for goal. Her effort forces Hampton into a save.
27 min: England stop Wales playing through midfield, with Greenwood intercepting a pass. She plays out wide to Hemp, who goes for the cross. James gets onto the end of it and goes for an audacious volley, but her effort flies way over the bar.
24 min: Walsh shoots from the edge of the box, but her low-driven effort runs wide.
22 min: Hemp receives the ball on the left and attempts to play it into the penalty area. Roberts fails to make the clearance and her effort deflects off Stanway and to Russo, who squares a pass across the six-yard box to Toone. The midfielder shoots and her initial effort is blocked by Woodham on the line, but she makes no mistake with her second, firing it into the top-right corner!
GOAL! England 2-0 Wales (Ella Toone, 21)
Toone makes it two! England have a firm grip on that quarter-final place now!
20 min: Fishlock goes for an audacious shot from distance, but her effort flies wide.
19 min: Holland is back on the pitch following some treatment.
17 min: We have two differing views on that penalty call…
Mary Waltz says: “Fair call, it is a Pen.”
While Alex Whitney says: “It becomes pretty clear there was no foul whatsoever - Stanway trod on the outside of the defender’s foot. Sad.”
15 min: The referee stops play after Holland goes down with a head injury following a shoulder-to-shoulder challenge with James.
GOAL! England 1-0 Wales (Georgia Stanway, 13)
Stanway steps up to take the penalty and slots the ball into the bottom-left corner!
12 min: Penalty to England!
11 min: Looking at the replay, it does look like the challenge on Stanway was made just inside the area. The check is still ongoing.
11 min: Hold on a moment, there’s a VAR check for a penalty…
10 min: England have a free kick in a very dangerous position as Jones trips Stanway right on the edge of the box.
9 min: Holland attempts to play a short pass to Fishlock in the middle as Wales look to play forward, but Walsh does well to get back and intercept.
7 min: Greenwood looks to split the Wales defence with a pass through to Russo, but Roberts gets there to intercept.
5 min: Hemp receives the ball on the left before making a deep run with it. She goes for the cross, but Clark is able to make the catch.
4 min: James looks to close down Woodham on the right. The defender goes for the clearance and the ball deflects off the England star before going behind for a goal-kick.
2 min: Like in the match against the Netherlands on Wednesday, Carter is playing at centre-back with Alex Greenwood at left-back.
1 min: The atmosphere had been simmering nicely in the old town in the centre of St Gallen all day, and now those anthems have really got everybody up for this. It’s the most partisan mood I’ve noticed for any game at this tournament so far. There are scarcely any neutrals here for this one. Around the city all day you’ve only seen white or red kits.
KICK-OFF
Here we go!
The teams are out. The national anthems have been sung. We’re just moments away from kick-off!
Mary Earps is in the stadium tonight, here in St Gallen. The PSG goalkeeper, who retired from international duty in a surprise move earlier this summer, has just greeted several of the friends and families of the England players in the stands with warm embraces. She’ll be sitting just a few rows behind the England technical area.
Ahead of today’s match, England manager Sarina Wiegman said: “I hope we will see a game where we have a lot of the ball and we play very good in possession so we don’t let it come into a fighting game.
“I’m not worried but I think Wales is a team that is very compact, they can fight, they are really together. But also when they have the ball they can play direct.”
She added: “We have our own preparation. We also know what’s on the line and we’re going to do everything to win the game because we want to get through. There is always pressure on England. We expect ourselves to play a good game and that we are tight on the ball, we let the ball move and hopefully we have the ball a lot and we can exploit spaces.”
“The women’s game in Wales is growing at a rapid rate, and the Red Wall, the thousands of drunken but good-natured cultural attaches who have followed the men’s team for years, have begun to support the women’s team with the same fervour. There were just under 4,000 in attendance at the first game against the Netherlands, outnumbering and outsinging the Dutch, a fact not lost on this Welsh squad, who remember away followings numbering in single digits.
“A team of ultra-competitive, professional footballers competing at a major tournament will not want to hear that the event had more meaning than a 3-0 defeat, but as thousands of Welsh and Dutch supporters participated in the fan walk to the Allmend Stadion in Lucerne, it felt like a day pulsing with significance…”
Jeremy Boyce has a response to Mary Waltz:
“Nice idea for Michael Sheen, but given that this is a women’s match wouldn’t it be better to find an equally meritorious female Welsh actor to deliver the speech? There are plenty, take your pick...”
Ruth Jones, perhaps? Catherine Zeta-Jones?
Aggie Beever-Jones spoke this week about wanting to make her mark at her first major tournament. She said: “For me, it’s about trusting Sarina [Wiegman] and trusting the process. We have a squad full of incredible players. I just have to take my opportunity when it comes. I was grateful to come on the other day and show a little bit of what I can do. Hopefully I get some more opportunities to do that.”
The Chelsea forward also discussed her lack of experience in tournament football due to Covid. She added: “I was unfortunate in that sense when I was growing up, I’ve never really experienced tournament football and being away from family. It was a crazy time in the world; I think everyone was a bit unsure what was going on. We were lucky enough that football was able to carry on.
“That’s why I think it makes it a bit more special this time round. It is my first proper tournament and at the highest level. It’s exactly where I want to be. I feel comfortable enough to push for my place as well as getting pushed every day to become a better person and player. So I’m really, really enjoying it. Hopefully we can make our mark and keep going.”
Mary Waltz has messaged in all the way from California with a question for a certain Welsh actor:
“Is Michael Sheen going to give the Welsh Women a rousing pep talk as he did for the Welsh men? They will need something to beat their sisters/rivals.”
Angharad James believes that Wales “can upset” England tonight.
In her press conference yesterday, she said: “It’s a rivalry match and one everyone wants to play in. The pressure is all on England. They have to perform. We believe we can upset a very top team. We are ready for the fight.”
Wales enjoyed a historic moment against France on Wednesday when Jess Fishlock, the oldest player to feature at Euro 2025 and the nation’s most-capped player, scored their first-ever goal at a major tournament. In doing so, she also became the oldest scorer in Women’s Euro history. Wales went on to lose the match 4-1 against Les Bleus, but the energy in the stadium among the near 2,000 travelling fans was palpable. They all left St. Gallen with memories to last a lifetime.
Here’s the team news for Netherlands v France:
Netherlands: Van Domselaar; Wilms, Spitse, Janssen, Caspari; Van Donl, Roord, Groenen, Pelova; Grant, Beerensteyn. Substitutes: Kop, De Jong, Dijkstara, Buurman, Leuchter, Miedema, Brugts, Janse, Snoeijs, Kaptein, Egurrola, Van der Zanden.
France: Peyraud-Magnin; De Almeida, Samoura, Sombath, Bacha; Jean-Francois, Toletti, Karchaoui; Cascarino, Katoto, Baltimore. Substitutes: Lerond, Picaud, Lakrar, Geyoro, Malard, Majri, Diani, Mateo, Gago, Mbock Bathy, N’Dongala, Bogaert.
Today’s match officials:
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Referee: Frida Klarlund
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Assistant referees: Fie Bruun, Heini Hyvönen
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Fourth official: Iuliana Demetrescu
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VAR: Tiago Martins
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Assistant VAR: Cătălin Popa
Sarina Wiegman names an unchanged England squad for tonight’s clash, while Wales head coach Rhian Wilkinson has made three changes to her team. Clark has replaced Middleton-Patel in goal, with Roberts and Jones also in the XI for Green and Barton.
Team news
England starting line-up: Hannah Hampton; Lucy Bronze, Leah Williamson (C), Jess Carter, Alex Greenwood; Keira Walsh, Georgia Stanway, Ella Toone; Lauren James, Alessia Russo, Lauren Hemp. Substitutes: Niamh Charles, Beth Mead, Maya Le Tissier, Anna Moorhouse, Grace Clinton, Esme Morgan, Michelle Agyemang, Chloe Kelly, Aggie Beever-Jones, Jess Park, Khiara Keating, Lotte Wubben-Moy.
Wales starting line-up: Olivia Clark; Esther Morgan, Rhiannon Roberts, Gemma Evans, Lily Woodham; Jess Fishlock, Angharad James (C); Ceri Holland, Carrie Jones, Rachel Rowe; Ffion Morgan. Substitutes: Soffia Kelly, Safia Middleton-Patel, Sophie Ingle, Josephine Green, Kayleigh Barton, Hannah Cain, Hayley Ladd, Elise Hughes, Charlotte Estcourt, Lois Joel, Ella Powell, Alice Griffiths.
Here is what Group D is looking like right now:
France - 6pts (4GD)
England - 3pts (3GD)
Netherlands - 3pts (-1GD)
Wales - 0pts (-6GD)
Preamble
Hello and welcome to coverage of England v Wales on the final day of the Euro 2025 group stage. It’s still all to play for in Group D with both quarter-final places up for grabs. England need a win against the Welsh this evening to guarantee their place in the knockout stages, with the Netherlands taking on France in the other group meeting. A win for Les Bleus should see the Lionesses move out of the group as long as they avoid defeat, whereas victory for the Netherlands could make things very interesting.
Meanwhile, Wales are currently bottom of the group with no points. Technically, they can still qualify, although they will need a miracle and plenty of goals against England to make it. Nevertheless, we’re in for a very exciting evening.
Let the battle of Britain commence.
Kick-off for this one is at 8pm BST - join me!
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