Euro 2025 TV schedule: How to watch every match today
The action gets underway on Wednesday with Group A, as Iceland and Finland play the curtain-raiser. After that, hosts Switzerland will be in action against tournament dark horses Norway at St-Jakob's Park in Basel, which will host the final on Sunday 27 July.
Sarina Wiegman 's side are defending champions having lifted the trophy on home soil with a memorable victory over Germany in the Euro 2022 final, as the Lionesses take on debutants Wales, France and the Netherlands in a blockbuster Group D.
England get their campaign underway on Saturday evening against France in Zurich, after Wales make their long-awaited tournament debut against former champions Netherlands.
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18 minutes ago
- Times
Oscar Onley: Before some Tour stages I thought I'd be lucky to stay in race
About half way up the rough concrete slopes of the Castaneda in the Swiss Alps near Italy, Oscar Onley looked behind and saw that João Almeida was at the back of the group. 'This is sometimes normal for him but the way he was riding recently, he's been quite dominant,' Onley tells The Times, 'so I sensed that maybe he wasn't on his best day.' The 22-year-old from Kelso increased his pace and forced the Portuguese rider to chase. No one in the select group could hold Onley's wheel except the two-times road world champion Julian Alaphilippe who soon dropped back into the pack. Almeida had to attack out of the group in order to bridge across — a stage win of the Tour de Suisse was up for grabs. 'When he caught me I just focused first on keeping up with him and then just trying to save a little bit for the sprint at the end,' Onley says. And it worked. With about 200m to go to the line, the Scotsman launched and Almeida, having been forced to exert himself in the chase, could not quite answer. Onley had won stage five ahead of one of the top riders in the world and a key lieutenant of Tadej Pogacar for the Tour de France — he had played it perfectly. 'I'm always quite consistent but now I felt like I made that next step up,' Onley, speaking from Andorra days before heading to Lille for the start of his second Tour de France on Saturday, says. 'I know Almeida's level quite well so it was good to be a bit closer to him this time. That gave me confidence that I was getting closer to these top guys.' Onley finished the race in third place overall, 1min 58sec down on Almeida, and, as well as his stage win, took four further podiums. A good omen, then, before the Tour, where he will lead his team, Picnic PostNL, and a sign that perhaps a new British stage-racing talent has arrived. Like so many others, it was the Tour de France that got Onley into riding. His mother would watch it every year on TV and when he was old enough Onley wanted to take part in the ten-mile time trials hosted by local cycling club Kelso Wheelers, conveniently starting practically outside his house. Having made friends at the races he began to ride at weekends before competing around Scotland at under-12 to under-16 level before taking his racing national. 'I was never very good when I was a youth,' Onley says. 'When I turned junior and started going to Belgium and France is when I first started to get more results.' This was something the 5ft 8in Onley put down to his size. 'Obviously I'm still quite small now,' he says, 'but I was a lot smaller than some of the other guys when I was younger. There weren't many courses that suited me.' But someone of his size was made for climbing and as a junior Onley would find success in the lower levels before stepping up to Development Team DSM in 2021. Just two years later he was in the elite version of the squad now known as Team Picnic PostNL and in 2024, perhaps only a decade after watching the Tour de France on TV and deciding to try a time-trial, Onley lined up in Florence for the start of his first Tour. There had been glimmers of performance throughout that season, including a stage win at the Tour Down Under and several top-ten finishes, but injuries had plagued him throughout and he would ultimately finish the Tour in 39th place, but with a strong fifth-place finish on a mountainous stage 17. 'The process of racing for three weeks was quite different to a one-week race,' Onley says. 'You're never going to feel good, that's what I realised last year. There were some days I woke up and I thought I'd be lucky just to make it through the stage, but then what you don't realise is everyone is thinking the same and as soon as you get on the bike suddenly you're out the front trying to get in the break and you can be competitive even if you feel minutes away from pulling out.' This year he has had a cleaner run without injury getting in the way of racing or training. His form at the Tour de Suisse was not a surprise to him; he knew if he had better luck then he would be in excellent shape. 'I'm more confident but I know how much bigger and just how much harder the Tour is compared to the Tour de Suisse or any other race you do in the year really,' Onley says. 'I'm not going in expecting to be fighting for top five on the general classification [GC]. I'm quite realistic. I'm confident in the shape that I have now and everything I've done so far this year.' So, then, the young Scot will be hunting for stages. However that is something easier said than done in the modern age of cycling. Not so long ago, the peloton was less interested in stage victories, GC was all that mattered and so breakaways took more wins than they do now. But with the all-out, full-speed racing style ushered in by the likes of Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel since 2020, fewer and fewer breakaways make the distance. If a peloton is moving at full speed, how can anyone get away from it? 'You're not really in control of which days the breakaways are allowed to win,' Onley says. 'That's what I realised last year. There were days [UAE Team Emirates-XRG] decided that the break could win and that's how it went. You've just got to go all out, every day and hope it sticks at some point.' But if a rider goes all out, every day, there is no guarantee when they make it into a breakaway they will have the energy to fight for victory. Onley says sometimes you often have to go on days that do not suit you and you also have to sit days out — a gamble but a necessary one. 'If I'm realistic there's 21 stages and 170-odd riders all trying to go for stage wins so obviously that is a goal,' he says. 'But if I can say at the end of the tour that I gave it everything and still come away without a stage win . . . I won't be happy but I won't be disappointed.' Onley has a lot of time to consider what sort of rider he will be, but his early career suggests an excellent climber and a rider who races intelligently. Working out that Almeida was on a bad day is part of what it takes to be a great stage racer, so is being brave enough to strike at that point. The path for Onley is perhaps an obvious one, then, from watching the Tour de France with his mum, Sharon, to attempting to win it — but he is in no rush. 'At some point for sure I'll give it a go in a grand tour,' Onley says. 'I'll probably start with the Giro d'Italia or Vuelta a España first. To try it in the Tour is a big step but there's time to figure it out.' In the meantime, there are two riders who reign supreme over the Tour de France and look set to do so again this year: Pogacar and Vingegaard, winners for the past five editions. 'The way Pogacar's looking, it's going to be hard for anyone to beat him,' Onley says. 'But Vingegaard is also on a very high level. I don't think the other races in the season reflect his level. When he comes to the Tour de France, he always manages to step up. But a lot can happen in three weeks so it's never over, especially before it's started.' Starts SaturdayTV ITV4, 11.45am
The Guardian
23 minutes ago
- The Guardian
Hammerings, history and hard times: the seven ages of Sarina Wiegman's England
A barely remembered footnote in the history of England's women's team is the period after Sarina Wiegman's appointment as manager but before her arrival. Wiegman's appointment followed a tumultuous time, with the pandemic forcing a one-year delay to the 2020 Olympics and 2021 Euros. Phil Neville's contract ran until July 2021 and poor form led to the announcement, on 22 April 2020, that he would not stay longer. Four months later, the Football Association announced Wiegman would take over. However, with the Dutchwoman committed to taking the Netherlands, the European champions, to the Tokyo Olympics, England would have to wait. Questions about whether Neville would be handed a short-term deal to lead Team GB at the Olympics were unanswered. In January 2021, shortly before it is believed the FA was about to announce who would travel with Team GB, Neville departed for the Inter Miami head coach role. The FA turned to the recently appointed assistant manager Hege Riise to fill the England role on an interim basis and later asked her to lead Team GB. After a limp end to Neville's tenure, with five defeats, three unconvincing wins and a draw, there was despondency and a sense that the small cracks evident in England's 2019 World Cup run had opened wide. The team were defensively fragile, creatively weak and overreliant on Ellen White's goals digging them out of holes. Riise got off to a good start with a 6-0 England win over Northern Ireland but defeats by France and Canada followed and Team GB crashed out in the Olympic quarter-finals with an agonising 4-3 extra-time defeat by Australia. Wiegman's job was big: to turn around a team that had lost their way, but she came in with solid credentials, having led the Netherlands to the European title in 2017 and a World Cup final in 2019. SW The buildup to Wiegman's first match, a World Cup qualifier against North Macedonia in Southampton, was rocked by an ankle injury to Steph Houghton. Wiegman had named Houghton as the captain and it proved something of a sliding doors moment for the centre-back; one of England's best performers for the previous decade never wore the armband again. To say Wiegman's team made a strong start would be a major understatement. In her first six games England scored a remarkable 53 times without conceding and, in what felt like no time at all, the Lionesses had an air of invincibility. Yes, the standard of the opposition was flattering them, but this free-flowing, confident England suddenly looked incomparable with the side that had limped to defeats a few months previously. Her desire for perfection was evidenced on a torrential night in Riga. England had beaten Latvia 10-0 in some of the soggiest conditions you could imagine, in an eerily flat atmosphere with no fans permitted in the Daugava stadium because of a pandemic-related curfew, and yet Wiegman felt her players had been 'a little bit sloppy'. The Lionesses duly won the reverse fixture 20-0. Draws with Canada and Spain in 2022's Arnold Clark Cup gave England the tougher tests they needed and they lifted that trophy thanks to a memorable win over Germany. The feelgood mood strengthened during their warm-up friendlies for that summer's Euros, as 3-0, 5-1 and 4-0 wins over Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland respectively gave the Lionesses a new aura going into a home tournament. TG Wiegman became the first manager to deliver back-to-back European titles for different nations when England lifted the 2022 European Championship trophy. Everything came together at the right time and everyone – players, coaches, staff, media and fans – seemed to be singing from the same hymn sheet. The unbeaten run to the final helped and again created an air of invincibility, and the manager's blunt honesty on her expectations that endeared her to the players. 'Everybody knows where they stand so there's no guessing games behind closed doors and I think that does take the pressure off,' said Keira Walsh before the tournament. 'The mentality now is just all about doing the best for the team and the team winning, rather than individuals. I think you can see that in the way we play.' Critical to their success was also the building of a pressureless environment. 'I don't know how she does it, to be honest with you,' said Walsh. 'It's easy for me to sit here and say it feels less tense, because it just does.' During the tournament the manager was unshakeable. Sticking with the same starting XI throughout was a masterstroke, with Alessia Russo and Ella Toone providing impetus and an element of the unknown from the bench. The team also had luck on their side, in that they sustained no significant injuries and that when Wiegman and the back-up keeper Hannah Hampton contracted Covid-19, it was around the time of the final group game with England already through. An injury to Germany's Alexandra Popp in the warm-up before the final was a huge literal and psychological boost. SW Wiegman's European champions took on the then world champions, the United States, at Wembley in October 2022 and recorded a memorable victory, and the manager's unbeaten streak would continue to April 2023, taking in two further trophies: a safely retained Arnold Clark Cup and a new piece of silverware, the Finalissima, secured via a penalty shootout against Brazil, the champions of South America. England winning on penalties? This was a team breaking history in so many ways. The honeymoon had to end eventually, though, and Wiegman's first defeat arrived at Brentford against Australia. Worse was to come that month, when Leah Williamson sustained an anterior cruciate ligament injury, joining Beth Mead on the knee injury absentee list for the World Cup. Then Millie Bright was a doubt for the tournament and Wiegman's first streak of misfortune had arrived. The players, meanwhile, were embroiled in a row with the FA over bonuses and commercial deals, which spilled into the public domain on the eve of the World Cup. Bright was passed fit just in time to fly to Australia but England were seemingly stumbling, for the first time under Wiegman. Or were they? TG Wiegman produced her first tactical surprise and it worked to good effect, a 3-5-2 formation, utilising Lauren Hemp as a more central forward, helping England progress from what had been an uninspiring pair of opening 1-0 victories over Haiti and Denmark to putting six goals past China. The Lionesses had to show their dogged defensive side in this campaign but displayed their nous in big games to find a way to Wiegman's fourth consecutive major tournament final. There were rumours of rivals trying to poach her but before the final in Sydney but Mark Bullingham said the FA would '100% reject' any approaches. 'We think Sarina is doing a great job and hope she continues doing it for a long time,' the FA's chief executive said. 'Sarina could do anything she wants in football.' The Lionesses left Australia immensely disappointed, after losing 1-0 to Spain, an agonising second World Cup final defeat in a row for Wiegman, but months later Wiegman extended her contract until after the 2027 World Cup to have another crack with England at that ultimate prize. TG England have played 24 games since the World Cup, winning 14, drawing four and losing six. Placed alongside the unbeaten run before the 2022 Euros, this doesn't look great but the introduction of the Nations League has significantly increased the calibre of teams England face on a regular basis. 'The levels of the game are improving so much,' Wiegman said in February. 'You can't just take for granted that you'll win … Before the Nations League we would play different countries from different levels – we're never going to win 20-0 again. I don't think that's competitive anyway.' England have twice failed to qualify for the Nations League finals, which included missing out on Olympic qualification for Team GB. It hasn't been smooth sailing. The Lionesses have looked unconvincing at times, particularly defensively, and a little too predictable. But nothing can progress upwards all the time and injuries have also had an impact, with Williamson taking time to return to her best, Hemp, Alex Greenwood and Georgia Stanway also sustaining knee injuries and Lauren James among others unavailable at various points. SW The May-June 2025 international camp was the most turbulent of Wiegman's tenure, by far, amid three high-profile withdrawals, for three different reasons. Mary Earps retired from England duty, and the sadness of Wiegman's face was unmistakable as she discussed the matter, in possibly the most cagey of her press conferences to date, the head coach saying: 'I don't give any information about these private conversations.' Soon after, Fran Kirby also ended her England career, after Wiegman – typically direct and honest – had explained she would not pick her for the Euros. When Bright withdrew from Euros selection the next day to look after her mental health and an exhausted knee, suddenly there were suggestions of a crisis, but Wiegman produced a defiant performance at her squad-announcement press conference and switched the mood. 'I don't go around the bush,' she said, of the way she handles conversations with players. Behind the scenes, as England arrived at St George's Park for their Euros training camp, the mood began to lift. Hemp, Stanway and crucially James were fit-again, and a morale-boosting 7-0 victory over Jamaica meant England flew to Switzerland full of confidence. TG
BBC News
27 minutes ago
- BBC News
Gossip: Mitoma to stay at Brighton
Japan winger Kaoru Mitoma, 28, has told Brighton he wants to stay at the club and sign a new deal despite being linked with Bayern Munich (Sky Sports), externalWant more transfer stories? Read Thursday's full gossip columnFollow the gossip column on BBC Sport
