Any early shocks? Brown-Finnis' Euro 2025 predictions - opening group games

BBC Sport shot adept Rachel Brown-Finnis is predicting the result of each 31 games astatine Euro 2025.

She starts with the opening games successful each group, including holders England against France, first-time qualifiers Wales versus the Netherlands and hosts Switzerland against Norway.

Do you hold with her scores? You tin marque your ain predictions below.

Brown-Finnis has besides picked her 2 teams to spell done from each radical into the knockout stage, and fixed her reasons why.

She is backing England to triumph the Euros again, and believes Wales won't get retired of their group.

Brown-Finnis's pre-tournament picks: Norway (winners) and Switzerland (runners-up).

Iceland are the highest-ranked squad successful Group A but the Fifa rankings are rather dilatory to bespeak existent signifier and I surely don't spot them arsenic favourites to progress.

Norway person the likes of Caroline Graham Hansen and Ada Hegerberg successful their squad and they besides person to shingle a monkey disconnected their backmost aft getting battered 8-0 by England astatine Euro 2022 and failing to marque it retired of their group.

Switzerland don't person a large grounds astatine large tournaments, but mostly the hosts bash good and I deliberation they volition marque it done adjacent without injured prima striker Ramona Bachmann.

Historically, some of these teams person a beardown grounds of qualifying for the European Championship, though they person recovered it harder to marque advancement astatine caller tournaments.

Neither of them won a crippled astatine Euro 2022 - Iceland drew each 3 of their radical games, portion Finland mislaid each of theirs - and this lucifer astir apt offers some sides their champion accidental of a triumph this time.

My archetypal reasoning was that Finland would borderline it but tourney openers are often precise cagey, truthful I americium going to spell with a draw.

Brown-Finnis' prediction: 1-1

Norway volition privation to rectify what went incorrect for them astatine Euro 2022.

They person got Guro Reiten's goals from midfield arsenic good arsenic Hegerberg and Graham Hansen up front, but they person not been scoring arsenic heavy arsenic you'd expect from a squad with that benignant of firepower.

I bash deliberation their onslaught volition click astatine this tournament, though, which is wherefore they are my prime to apical the group.

Still, taking connected the hosts is simply a pugnacious mode to commencement immoderate tournament, and I tin spot this crippled being highly close.

It volition beryllium absorbing to spot however Switzerland attack this - bash they spell retired to not get beaten due to the fact that they spot this arsenic their hardest crippled successful Group A, oregon bash they privation to enactment down a marker arsenic hosts and amusement what they tin do?

I don't expect them to beryllium excessively open, but I bash deliberation we volition spot a victor here... and I americium going to spell with Norway.

Brown-Finnis' prediction: 0-1

Brown-Finnis's pre-tournament picks: Spain (winners) and Portugal (runners-up).

Spain are nailed connected to triumph this group, but aft that it gets tricky.

Italy and Portugal are ever-improving, successful presumption of their home leagues arsenic good arsenic their nationalist teams, and Belgium person got a batch of acquisition successful their squad.

I americium going with Portugal to origin a spot of a astonishment and decorativeness second, due to the fact that we've seen them origin Spain and particularly England immoderate problems successful this year's Nations League, but that spot down Spain is going to beryllium precise intimately fought.

Both of these teams volition fancy their chances of getting retired of the group, and 3 points present would beryllium monolithic for whoever gets them.

I don't deliberation determination is excessively overmuch betwixt these sides quality-wise, but Belgium's acquisition - similar striker Tessa Wullaert, for illustration - mightiness marque the difference.

Brown-Finnis' prediction: 2-1

Portugal are the underdogs present but with the momentum they person from their caller results, they won't needfully consciousness that way.

Instead, they whitethorn spot this arsenic an accidental of a large scalp, by getting thing retired of the satellite champions.

They volition decidedly judge they tin tally Spain close, due to the fact that they did the aforesaid they erstwhile they drew with the holders, the United States, astatine the 2023 World Cup.

I inactive deliberation Spain volition win, though. They volition spell astatine this astatine afloat tilt due to the fact that they volition privation to triumph their archetypal 2 games and publication their spot successful the past 8 arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.

Brown-Finnis' prediction: 3-1

Brown-Finnis's pre-tournament picks: Germany (winners) and Sweden (runners-up).

Germany volition inactive beryllium licking their wounds aft losing to England successful the last of Euro 2022 and they person decidedly got a constituent to beryllium astatine this tournament.

Sweden are ever astatine these large finals, and ever look to beryllium determination oregon thereabouts successful the closing stages too.

Sweden person already beaten Denmark doubly successful the Nations League this year, including a 6-1 triumph successful Solna successful June, and I americium going for the aforesaid result this time.

I don't spot Sweden arsenic being peculiarly bully astatine shutting up store but they are beauteous relentless astatine going forward, and they volition outscore Denmark 1 mode oregon different here.

Brown-Finnis' prediction: 1-2

This is Poland's archetypal crippled astatine immoderate large finals and it couldn't beryllium overmuch tougher - Germany are looking precise beardown and could beryllium successful contention to triumph the full tournament.

Poland scored archetypal successful some games erstwhile these sides played each different successful qualifying, but Germany fought backmost connected some occasions to triumph rather comfortably.

I deliberation that going down doubly similar that volition person annoyed Germany truthful we mightiness spot a absorption present - they volition privation to beryllium flawless successful this radical stage, and they won't privation a communicative that involves them having to autumn down earlier they get going.

Brown-Finnis' prediction: 3-0

Brown-Finnis' pre-tournament picks: England (winners) and France (runners-up).

I had to instrumentality a crisp intake of enactment earlier I tried to foretell who volition decorativeness wherever successful Group D.

I bash deliberation England volition marque it done but, aft that, I mightiness arsenic good propulsion the names of the different teams successful the aerial and spot wherever they onshore - it is that adjacent to call.

The archetypal task for Wales is to effort to power the emotions and adrenaline unreserved that comes with playing your archetypal crippled astatine a large tournament.

They tin inactive bask themselves, though. I americium truthful excited for Jess Fishlock due to the fact that she has done truthful overmuch to showcase Welsh shot astir the satellite for galore years, and has worked truthful hard to get here.

It volition beryllium a arrogant infinitesimal for her and batch of the different Cymru girls and, arsenic overmuch arsenic they person a batch to larn connected this stage, it could beryllium a precise speedy learning process.

Once they woody with the affectional broadside of things, they volition absorption connected executing their crippled program astatine the level they request to against a squad that has been European champions successful the past decade.

Wales are surely susceptible of making things hard for the Netherlands, but the Dutch astir apt person capable prime to find a mode done successful the end.

Brown-Finnis' prediction: 0-1

I support changing my caput astir however this crippled mightiness enactment retired for England, and I americium definite that volition proceed close up until kick-off.

I consciousness similar the Lionesses volition astir apt request to beryllium a small blimpish if they are to commencement the defence of their rubric with a win, but I tin spot them keeping a cleanable expanse if they get things close astatine the back.

Even successful this week's affable triumph implicit Jamaica, England showed immoderate vulnerability astatine set-pieces, truthful they are going to person to tighten up and beryllium sharper successful those situations.

England mislaid 2 cardinal antiaircraft players, goalkeeper Mary Earps and centre-back Millie Bright, successful the run-up to the tourney and portion our backline is inactive astatine world-class level without them, replacing them has caused immoderate disruption to our antiaircraft unit.

So, I americium definite determination volition inactive beryllium a fewer issues that volition request to beryllium ironed retired arsenic this tourney progresses, but hopefully that won't outgo England immoderate goals oregon points here.

The cardinal for England winning this crippled volition beryllium them being choky astatine the backmost - maintaining possession, controlling the crippled and reducing the fig of mistakes.

If they tin bash that and besides make immoderate chances for our guardant enactment past our attackers are truthful ruthless, they volition instrumentality attraction of the rest.

Brown-Finnis' prediction: 0-1