France v Germany: Women's Euro 2025 quarter-final
Date: 2025-07-19T17:41:56.000Z
Title: France have always has a star studded side
Content: Euro 2025 quarter-final updates, 8pm BST kick-off
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Sarah Rendell
Sat 19 Jul 2025 19.41 CEST
First published on Sat 19 Jul 2025 19.00 CEST
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but they have continually struggled in the latter half of major tournaments. In Euro 2022 they reached the Euros semi-finals for the first time but they were knocked out by – yes you guessed it – their opponents this evening.
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Here's a great read on the game we are about to watch:
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Sweden's Smilla Holmberg missed the nation's final penalty which sent England through but she has been well supported by her teammates and the wider football world. Her father told Swedish outlet P4:
She received a text message from Zlatan Ibrahimović this morning, one of her great role models.
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England had to put out a scrappy comeback to overcome Sweden in the quarter-final. The Lionesses will play Italy in the semi-final on Tuesday and here is defender's Esme Morgan's assessment of where the team are:
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Whoever wins tonight will face favourites Spain in the semi-final after they overcame hosts Switzerland last night. Here's how that game went:
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Hello and welcome to the final quarter-final of Euro 2025 between France and Germany. This game is set to be an absolute belter.
France finished the group stage with three wins from three which was thoroughly impressive as they found themselves in the group of death with England, the Netherlands and Wales.
Germany, meanwhile, dispatched of Poland and Denmark in their group but fell to a heavy 4-1 defeat to Sweden last time out. It will be interesting to see how the Germans bounce back and how this one shakes out.
The team news is set to be announced around 6.45pm BST but before that we will look at what has been said in the build-up and what is happening across the tournament.
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