Spanish domination, classy goals, and suspicious smells | Euro 2025 #2

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

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Spain are HERE. They announced their arrival in Switzerland with a brutal 5-0 thrashing of Portugal. And they've got a perfect 18-year-old replacement for Aitana Bonmatí? Well that's just not fair.

Chloe and Rachel sit down to reflect on Day Two at the Euros and look ahead to Germany's showdown with Poland tonight – plus, Rach has cutting edge insight from the Wankdorf Stadium...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Upfront, I'm Clay Morgan.
0:19.6	And I'm Rachel Sullivan. The Euros is is properly underway now as Spain demolished Portugal 5-0 in Bern.
0:26.6	Rach, you called it. I think actually we both called it.
0:29.6	And we have to ask the question already. Can anyone stop Spain? They look too damn strong.
0:35.6	Plus Italy got a good win against Belgium and we look ahead
0:39.3	to the next set of favourites looking to lay down a marker including of course the lionesses.
0:48.8	Obviously, Rach, I think it's best maybe to approach the really sad news that dropped yesterday.
0:56.4	Diego Jotter, the Liverpool and Portugal Forward and his brother, Andre Silva, passed away yesterday morning.
1:03.7	I think from all of us in the football community, absolutely devastated by the news.
1:08.2	I think it doesn't matter whether you're a woman's fan, a men's football
1:11.1	fan, a general fan, or just a member of the general public who couldn't get less about sports.
1:15.7	It was just a big shot to everyone. I think the community really rallied together.
1:20.5	Yesterday there were so many lovely sort of posts going out about all the incredible memories
1:25.2	that he'd created for people, how incredible
1:28.1	his legacy was off the pitch as well, his engagement with the women's team and just generally
1:32.6	what all round good egg he was. Obviously, I think there was a bit of a link there between
1:38.3	the Portugal manager, Francisco Netto, and Diego sort of talking about his time coaching Jusser when he was a coach of the
1:45.9	men's under 19 side and there was obviously a load of really lovely tributes that were paid
1:51.0	in his memory just before the Spain-Portugal game a moment's silence there as well beforehand
1:57.4	and loads of fans sort of like these lovely pictures of um diogo um sort of around
2:02.5	the stadium as well but yeah from all of us here at up front um yeah thoughts um and yeah
2:09.6	best regards to geogo's family friends um and the rest of the football community has been
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