December 17 – Girls’s Euro 2021 champions England will open their title defence in opposition to France on the 2025 European Championship in Switzerland subsequent summer season.
In what’s a tricky Group D, they can even face 2017 champions Netherlands and neighbours Wales.
On Monday, the draw was held for the continent’s 16-team flagship ladies’s event. The 4 teams arrange plenty of blockbuster ties and native rivalries.
In Group B World champions Spain will open in opposition to Portugal. In addition they face Italy and Belgium.
In Group C Germany have been handed a tough process, opening in opposition to Poland earlier than assembly 2017 runners-up Denmark and the 2022 semi-finalists Sweden.
England supervisor Sarina Wiegman, who will face her native nation in Group D, stated: “The group is hard. However on the identical time these are the details and we knew, with how the pots have been, that it might be troublesome anyway. The ladies’s sport is growing so shortly so I don’t suppose there are straightforward issues anymore. We’ve seen within the Nations League now we have two powerful video games and we simply must be prepared. Immediately, you need to be on the prime degree after we go into the event and that makes us actually sharp.”
Dutch supervisor Andries Jonker echoed her feedback: “I believe the winner of this group can win the entire event as a result of that’s the high quality and the energy of the group [D].
“It’s a lot simpler once you evaluate our group to Group A. We’ve three prime groups in Group D and no prime workforce in Group A with all of the respect to them. However our workforce is used to dealing with conditions so it’s the means it’s. It’s at all times particular [facing Wiegman] as a result of we’re pals. Usually with pals you want them the perfect however as sports activities individuals we wish to beat the opposite one. We each wish to win. Meaning you need to damage your buddy. However we’re each on the identical web page and the respect for one another gained’t change.”
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