Our Euro 2025 Final Preview! | Euro 2025 #14

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

Stak Production

Soccer, Womens World Cup, Girls Football, Lionesses, Womens Sports, Female Sports, Chloe Kelly, Womens England Football, Leah Williamson, Womens Soccer, Nwsl, Keira Walsh, Womens Football, England Womens, Sports

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It's here: England, the defending champions, take on Spain, the world champions. Chloe and Rachel are joined by England legend and BBC co-commentator Rachel Brown-Finnis to look ahead to what promises to be an extraordinary final.

They discuss England's journey and the media narratives that have swirled around it – plus, RBF reveals what she would tell these England players to unlock that Spain defence. We also find out about the secret behind Michelle Agyemang's ice-cold persona and there's even time for our score predictions! Sort of...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Up Front. I'm Cray Morgan. And I'm Rachel O'Sullivan The final of Euro 2025 is upon us. I have lost my voice. Rachel's lost her mind and we have such an exciting matchup.
0:27.6	England, the reigning champions versus Spain, the world champions. Will England defend their title or will Spain become European champions for the first time ever?
0:38.3	Today we're going to look back on both teams' journey to the final before focusing on that all-important 90 minutes tomorrow.
0:47.3	And we are delighted to welcome a special guest onto the pod.
0:50.3	Not only do we have one Rach, we have two Raches today. It's England
0:55.3	legend and BBC co-commentator, Rachel Brown-Finnis. Rach, it kind of feels fitting that we've got
1:01.2	you back on the pod. The last time you were on the show was when we were obviously recording on
1:05.0	the steps of Wembley, hours after England had lifted the trophy. It was chaos everywhere.
1:09.7	There was scenes. I was drunk. It was, it was just bedlam everywhere. And it was hours after England had lifted the trophy, it was chaos everywhere. There was scenes. I was
1:10.8	drunk. It was, it was just bedlam everywhere. And it was hours after you just commented on that
1:16.0	game. Let's talk about England, Spain, tomorrow. Squeaky bum time. It's fair to say that
1:22.8	the England Euro campaign this year has had a few ups and downs, a few more than 222 at least.
1:29.6	Do we think it's kind of been a mixture of luck and resilience?
1:34.0	Or do we think actually this is England to have, you know, overcome challenges,
1:37.7	overcome barriers?
1:38.5	And actually this is just the nature of tournament football.
1:41.1	Like it doesn't always go your way.
1:42.4	But you find ways to win and you
1:44.5	you just get the job done even if it's not particularly pretty. Did you say look? Yes, I did, I did throw that word in there. I knew as a trigger word, I knew as a tricker word. I'm not trying to, you know, it's early morning. I don't want to set the day off wrong. Should have heard what she said before we started recording RBF.
1:41.7	Yeah, you wouldn't tell me, would you?
1:44.8	Genuinely, I mean, what's the thing? should have heard what she said before we started recording RBF. Yeah, you wouldn't tell me, would you?
2:05.5	Genuinely, I mean, what's the famous saying,
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