Both England and Sweden have been in Switzerland for almost three weeks but there’s now a fresh feeling about Euro 2025. You’ll even sense it in the coverage. Where less consequential group games had been competing with Wimbledon, the Club World Cup and so much more, Thursday’s quarter-final is a prime-time slot of its own. It’s the event such a fixture should be.
Sweden's Kosovare Asllani, who Sarina Wiegman has been figuring out how to stop, summed it up nicely. “It feels as if the tournament really gets going when the group stage is over,” the veteran forward said. “We’ve been at this stage in almost every championship, so it feels familiar. The fun starts now.”
