Denmark v Sweden: Women's Euro 2025
Date: 2025-07-04T14:58:42.000Z
Title: Early team news:
Content: Sweden's promising young midfielder Rosa Kafaji will miss the tournament after undergoing surgery on an ankle injury she picked up in April. The 21-year-old has struggled for game time since moving to Arsenal from Hacken but has been earmarked as one for the future by her manager Reneee Slegers.
Barcelona left-back Fridolina Rolfo has travelled with the Sweden squad but there are slight concerns over her fitness after she damaged ligaments in her foot last month. In the extremely likely event that Kosovare Asllani features tonight, she will make her 200th appearance for her country.
Denmark have a comparatively clean bill of health and their manager Andre Jeglertz is likely to set out his stall with three at the back, while a potent looking front three should be comprised of Bayer Munich's Pernille Harder, Bayer Leverkusen's Cornelia Kramer and Real Madrid's Signe Bruun.
Update:
Date: 2025-07-04T14:57:25.000Z
Title: Group C: Sweden v Denmark
Content: With a player of the quality of Pernille Harder in their ranks, it's no surprise our Euro 25 guide to Denmark says they 'have the quality to beat anyone'. Unfortunately for the Danes, their most recent match was a month ago against tonight's opponents in the Nations League and they were battered 6-1. It is an embarrassment they will be hoping to put behind them as they attempt to avoid an unwanted recent hat-trick of consecutive defeats against Sweden.
While Denmark qualified for this tournament by winning top spot in their qualification group ahead of Belgium and the Czech Republic, Sweden were forced to enter through the back door after finishing third in their group. They went on to score 20 goals without reply across playoff ties against Luxembourg and Serbia, and have since beaten Norway in a warm-up game. They go into tonight's match at the Stade de Geneve on a 12-match unbeaten streak. Kick-off in Switzerland is at 5pm (BST) but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.
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