Women's Football Weekly: Wales & England draw each other in Euro 2025
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🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ellen White, Jen Beattie and Ben Haines react to the Euro 2025 draw held in Switzerland. Commentator Vicki Sparks also joins the team to reflect on the groups and how Sarina could set up her team. England have been drawn in the 'group of death' alongside The Netherlands, France and fellow home nation, Wales.
Ellen gives an insight into what it was like in the run up to 2022 and how the qualification makes it different this time around. Wales manager Rhian Wilkinson joins the pod to discuss the group and how she will approach Wales' first major tournament and facing the Lionesses!
Swiss journalist Seraina Degen drops by to share insight into what Switzerland will be like as hosts and the country's ambitions for the tournament.
The team also chat what could be a significant weekend in the WSL with Chelsea dropping points for the first time this season.
Timecodes: 00:20 Intro 02:00 Draw reaction 05:10 Sarina Wiegman 11:40 Where do we find England? 19:30 Wales & Rhian Wilkinson 27:00 WSL 29:30 Switzerland
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| 0:48.6 | On the Football Daily, the Women's Football Weekly, with Ben Haynes, Ellen White and Jen Beatty. |
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| 0:55.8 | Coming up, all the reaction. |
| 1:03.4 | Euro 2025 draw held in LaZan, Switzerland, where the big story is Group D, a tough group for England. |
| 1:06.6 | They'll face France, Netherlands and Wales. |
| 1:11.5 | As always, alongside me, England women's record goal scorer and Euro's winner, Ellen White. |
| 1:18.6 | Former Scotland International and BayFC's Gen B-T and commentator Vicky Sparks also with us this week as well. |
| 1:20.5 | So much to get into in this draw. |
| 1:28.4 | It promises to be such an exciting tournament off the back of seeing so many clashes that we were kind of hoping to see, I think. |
| 1:33.0 | Ellen White, have you got bored of watching back the highlights from Euro 2020? |
| 1:35.5 | Do you still watch them back occasionally? Treat yourself? |
| 1:37.7 | Just a little loop in our house. |
| 1:40.9 | Do you just have it running on screens everywhere? |
| 1:48.2 | Just wear my medal and just, you know, watch a loop of it. Just the good times. |
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