Spain v Belgium: Women's Euro 2025
Date: 2025-07-07T14:40:35.000Z
Title: The last two times these two nations
Content: played one another it was world champions Spain who came out on top. In February Spain beat them 3-2 and in May they came away with a 5-1 result.
Update:
Date: 2025-07-07T14:30:10.000Z
Title: Preamble
Content: Hello and welcome to the Group B match between favourites Spain and Belgium at Euro 2025.
Spain put out an impressive performance against Portugal in their opener in a 5-0 win, while Belgium fell to a 1-0 defeat to Italy. It is possible for both Belgium and Portugal to be knocked out today.
Belgium will be heading home if they lose this evening and Italy do not lose to Portugal, while Portugal will be out if they lose to Italy and Spain do not lose to Belgium.
Spain, though, could book their spot in the knockout stage this evening if they beat Belgium and Portugal do not beat Italy. The permutations can be a bit bewildering at times but as the picture changes we shall update you on all eventulaities.
The team news will be dropping soon so stay tuned before kick-off at 5pm BST.
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