WOMEN’S EURO 2025: England v Netherlands - it's crunch time
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Former England international Izzy Christiansen and Kit Shepard the women’s football reporter for the Times and Sunday Times join Tom Clarke to assess England’s poor start to the defence of their European title.
Where did it go wrong against France? Was it selection, tactics, substitutions? The team look at where England can improve how they might react to being under pressure this early in the tournament. Lastly they and look ahead to the who they would pick to face the Netherlands in a must win game on Wednesday.
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| 0:49.5 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. This is our Euro 2025 show. And well, we said it wouldn't be easy, but did England make it hard for themselves? |
| 0:57.4 | Serena Vigman's side began their defence |
| 0:59.3 | of their European Championship title |
| 1:01.3 | with a 2-1 defeat against France on Saturday night. |
| 1:04.7 | And on today's show, |
| 1:05.5 | we'll be analysing that match, |
| 1:07.2 | discussing some controversial decisions |
| 1:08.9 | and previewing a must-win clash with the Netherlands. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm Tom Clark and joining me we have the women's football reporter for the Times and Sunday Times |
| 1:16.4 | Kit Shepard and the former England International and Times columnist Izzy Christensen is with us too. |
| 1:22.3 | Right then, Izzy loads to discuss, so let's dive straight in. |
| 1:25.8 | Firstly, there's lots of topics I'm sure we're going to come into now. We're recording this on Sunday, a bit of time to discuss. So let's dive straight in. Firstly, there's lots of topics that I'm sure we're going to come into now. |
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