Sweden v England
UEFA Women's EURO 2025, Quarter-Final
8pm BST, Thursday 17 July 2025
Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich, Switzerland

Sarina Wiegman and Lucy Bronze spoke to the media on Wednesday afternoon ahead of England’s quarter-final clash with Sweden.

Here is what they had to say.

Wiegman on what she expects from Sweden:

I expect a very competitive game where it’s very hard to predict the outcome. They’ve had a very good group stage like the three wins they had but I think we’re in a very good place too and we’re ready to go, so hopefully, we can show that tomorrow.

On the performances of Hannah Hampton:

She plays an important role for us. She’s done really well, also growing into the tournament. The first task is to keep the ball out of the back of the net but she also is very good with her feet from what we’ve seen and we can be an extra builder when we start our build-up.

On the Lionesses’ ‘proper English’ identity:

‘Proper England’ is who we are and what we want to show and of course, that has to do with our tactics and how we want to play but also our behaviours and how we want to support each other, work really hard and play to our strengths too. When we do that, the chance of winning is the highest.

On the importance of the substitutes:

I think that’s very important because you can change the game, you can bring players in the same position that have different attributes to the game, so you can change tactics a little bit, you can change combinations a bit but still keeping the levels up and try to harm your opponent, so I think that’s key.

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Bronze on England’s 4-0 win over Sweden at EURO 2022:

We’ve played them since then. We’ve played them more recently last summer, we’ve played them in the Nations League twice in England and in Sweden. The team we played against in Sheffield in the EUROs, both for Sweden and for England, are very different and have moved on a lot. For us, it’s a very nice memory to look back on.

On adapting her game when facing Sweden:

I like to attack and I also like to defend. I can do whatever role is asked of me, whether that’s from Sarina or the players around me. We know the threat that Sweden has and that’s a lot in wide positions but at the same time, we’re a top team. You don’t want to change too much because we want to give to the game what we’re good at. We’re very much focused on our strengths and what we can bring to the game.

On growing the women’s game:

I guess every single player that puts on a shirt in this tournament probably feels that. I can imagine the Swiss team feel that because they’re the home nation. Every other team wants to replicate what England did and what the Netherlands did before us and really boost women’s football. We know that success comes from that. We know that we’re fortunate with England that when we have success, it really does explode. It’s what we want all over Europe and all over the world.

On her ‘why’:

My ‘why’ has always been the same. I’m someone who is based off of hard work and enjoying it. My ‘why’ was that I just love working hard and I love the game. It’s as simple as that. I started playing football because I love it. When I loved it, I wanted to work hard. I had a picture of myself up from against Sweden in 2019 of being absolutely exhausted at the end of that game because I will get anything and I will give everything when I play in an England shirt and I wanted all the girls to know that.

Sweden in profile

Nickname: Blågult (The Blue and Yellow)
Coach: Peter Gerhardsson
Captain: Caroline Seger
UEFA Women's EURO best performance: Champions in 1984
FIFA Women's World Cup best performance: Runners-up in 2003
Last encounter: Sweden 0-0 England, 16 July 2024

 

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● Sweden have lost only one of their last five games against England at the UEFA Women’s EURO (W3 D1), though that was a 4-0 defeat in the most recent meeting in the semi-finals of EURO 2022 – the Swedes are one of two teams to eliminate England from the knockout stages of the competition twice, alongside Germany (1984 final, 1987 semi-final).

● England have won just one of their last six meetings with Sweden across all competitions (D3 L2), with the most recent two ending in draws in qualification for UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 (1-1 home, 0-0 away).

● Sweden and England are two of three nations to have reached the quarter-final stage in all five major tournaments (World Cup/EURO) since EURO 2017, alongside France; Blågult have progressed from each of their last three last-eight ties, since they were eliminated from EURO 2017 by the Netherlands.

● England have progressed from each of their five quarter-final ties at major tournaments (World Cup/EURO) since the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup, already the longest ever run by a European nation; meanwhile the Lionesses have a perfect three from three record in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Women’s EURO, beating Finland in 2009, France in 2017 and Spain in 2022.

● Sweden have won all three of their games at UEFA Women’s EURO 2025, but have never won four in a row in the competition before. They have actually won six of their last seven games in the competition, with the exception their 4-0 loss to England in the semi-finals of EURO 2022.

● In the group stage of UEFA Women’s EURO 2025, no team recorded a higher expected goals figure than both England and Sweden (both 9.34 xG), while only Spain (14) scored more goals than England (eleven – level with France). Eight different players netted for the Lionesses in the group stage, only having more players net in a single major tournament (World Cup/EURO) at EURO 2022 (9).

● 65 per cent of Sweden’s chances created from open play at UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 have come down their right-hand side, the highest proportion of any nation; the Swedes recorded the most open play crosses during the group stage (61), with Johanna Rytting Kaneryd completing twice as many as any other player overall (eight).

 

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● Only Ellen White (ten) has scored more major tournament goals (World Cup/EURO) for England than Alessia Russo (eight – level with Fara Williams), who has netted three goals in her last six knockout stage appearances at those tournaments, including a goal against Sweden in the EURO 2022 semi-final.

● Kosovare Asllani scored (one) or assisted (three) half of Sweden’s goals in the group stage of this year’s UEFA Women’s EURO (4/8). Since Opta have assist data available for major tournaments (World Cup/EURO from 2011), only Lotta Schelin at UEFA Women’s EURO 2013 (7) and Asllani herself at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup (five) have recorded more goal involvements at a single edition of such a competition for Sweden.

● England’s Ella Toone has been directly involved in seven goals at the UEFA Women’s EURO, despite starting just two games (four goals, three assists) – the 25 year old has scored four goals in her last three international starts, as many as across her 26 prior for the Lionesses.

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Where to watch or stream England women v Sweden?

 

This game will be broadcast in the UK on BBC One.

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