Spain snatch victory and we answer your questions! | Euro 2025 #13

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

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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

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Aitana Bonmatí settled it with a cheeky moment of magic last night – but has a poor game left us feeling more optimistic about England's chances?

Chloe and Rachel discuss a tale of two goalkeepers and how Germany managed to restrict Spain so effectively. Plus, we answer your burning questions ahead of the final on Sunday!

Will Wiegman change her starting XI? Will England thrive without the ball? And has Chloe's impersonation of Rachel got any better? Tune in to find out!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Up Front. I'm Chloe Morgan.
0:18.9	And I'm Rachel Sullivan.
0:20.0	It wasn't very pretty. But Spain
0:22.6	beat Germany 1-0 in extra time last night after a moment of quick thinking or a stroke of luck from
0:28.9	Itana Bon Matty, who else? We discussed what the game means for England's hopes on Sunday and
0:33.8	we're answering some of your big questions around the tournament.
0:44.9	We were kind of having a bit of a chitter-shatter, backwards and forwards on the group chat, as we always do.
0:51.1	A couple of a spicy opinions going on normally, but this game for me felt a little bit flat.
0:55.0	There's been a lot of narratives around it being a, you know, a game of chess, a tactical battle between two juggernauts. But I was looking at that thinking, Christ,
1:01.7	when's something going to happen? There were obviously some big moments in the game that we'll
1:06.4	talk about. But the big moments were interspersed with long periods of just cagey football, no one quite
1:14.5	taking the sort of risks that we wanted these teams to take, given how confident we've seen
1:20.1	them perform in recent games, how much is at stake. It just felt a little bit meh. Am I right
1:27.3	at thinking that?
1:27.9	Did you feel the same way?
1:29.1	Yeah, it didn't kind of live up to what I expected it to live up to.
1:33.5	I expected a little bit more.
1:35.0	I definitely didn't think that that would be the game that ended nil-nil after 90 minutes.
1:40.0	I think both sides, as you said, had chances, but they never, like, they both had shots on target, both created chances, both had like exciting moments at times, but it just never really felt like it took off.
1:53.5	So, yeah, perhaps slightly underwhelming, but maybe we expected too much from these two after a long tournament.
1:59.4	True story. I mean, now obviously it means that Spain will face England in the final on Sunday.
2:04.3	Another England-Spain matchup, we've seen quite a few of those in the last year or so.
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