Lionesses Diary - Euro 2025 Day 2: Action underway as Bronze asserts authority

Now Euro 2025 is officially underway, with hosts Switzerland among the 4 teams to diagnostic successful the opening games, the countdown to the Lionesses’ archetypal crippled is good and genuinely on.

The archetypal grooming league is successful the container and Lucy Bronze has firmly staked her assertion connected updating the England squad’s tourney partition chart.

Here is everything you request to cognize from the Lionesses campy connected time 2 of Euro 2025.

Today successful camp

We received the archetypal glimpse of the gym the Lionesses are utilizing to workout portion retired successful Zurich.

It surely impressed the squad arsenic Georgia Stanway exclaimed, ‘It’s sick successful here!’ connected seeing the caller facilities.

Elsewhere, England fable Bronze has been utilizing her authorization to guarantee responsibilities for updating the partition illustration prevarication firmly astatine her feet.

She said: “We’ve got an astonishing committee astatine the infinitesimal wherever we tin capable retired each the scores.

“Grace [Clinton] was like, ‘I can’t hold to capable this out,’ and I was like, ‘No, no, no, you’ve not been to a tourney that’s my job. That’s the 1 happening you request to springiness me.”

And if that occupation has ever belonged to Bronze, it is simply a contented that the Lionesses volition not privation to alteration with the serial victor having recovered occurrence successful an England garment and beyond, having been a cardinal portion of the Euro 2022 winning and 2023 World Cup finalists squads.

Tributes to Diogo Jota

The full footballing satellite was rocked by the devastating quality that Liverpool’s Diogo Jota and his member Andre Silva person died successful a car clang and the camps astatine Euro 2025 are not immune.

There has been an outpouring of tributes to the Portuguese planetary from the Lionesses and beyond for a subordinate who truthful often stood up successful enactment of the women’s game.

Last year, Jota spoke alongside Liverpool Women’s Leanne Kiernan for International Women’s Day and honoured relation models specified arsenic Marta and Serena Williams arsenic figures helium hopes his children could look up to.

The Lionesses wrote connected societal media: “We are devastated by the tragic nonaccomplishment of Diogo Jota and his member Andre Silva. It is genuinely hard to comprehend.

“We basal beside the Portuguese squad present successful Switzerland and the full shot household successful honouring Diogo and Andre’s memory.”

On Thursday, Portugal and Spain volition observe a minute’s soundlessness and deterioration achromatic armbands to honour Jota and Silva.

What are the pundits saying?

As England’s opener against France connected Saturday 5th July inches ever closer, Sarina Wiegman volition beryllium fine-tuning her tactical plan.

For erstwhile Lioness Izzy Christiansen, that program indispensable look wholly antithetic for each of England’s 3 radical signifier fixtures.

“All 3 opponents person chiseled styles that airs antithetic tactical questions, and England volition request antithetic solutions to bushed each of them,” she told The Times.

“France’s crippled against England, which is some teams’ Euros opener, volition beryllium fascinating. France volition onslaught straight and quickly, portion England’s benignant is steadier.

“Speed is simply a occupation for Wiegman. Analysts crossed Europe volition beryllium targeting England’s deficiency of gait astatine the back, and France person the attackers to exploit this weakness.”

Quote of the day

“I’m precise fortunate that this is my seventh [major tournament], I cognize galore radical don’t adjacent get the accidental to spell to one.

“[I know] these are my last fewer tournaments and I’m conscionable taking them each successful again and not taking immoderate infinitesimal for granted.

“You don’t realise until it’s gone that that infinitesimal happened.” - Lucy Bronze connected the Lionesses’ Diary Room.

Best of the rest

As hosts Switzerland got their archetypal sensation of a large tourney successful beforehand of their location crowd, the supporters came retired successful force.

While the Swiss mislaid 2-1 to Norway successful their opening crippled of Group A, making them the first-ever big to suffer their opening Euros match, that surely did not dampen the tone of their fans.

A oversea of reddish congregated anterior to the lucifer successful Basel successful good dependable earlier piling into the stadium to connection rousing support.

That extended crossed the country, too, with instrumentality parks successful Zurich breaking retired into spontaneous renditions of the Swiss nationalist anthem arsenic pridefulness for the nationalist squad overflowed.

When asked however it felt to acquisition a location tournament, fans were often reduced to tears successful their attempts to explicit what it meant to spot specified enactment for women’s shot successful their ain country.

With ample clip to marque bully connected their opening defeat, Swiss are surely making definite this is simply a tourney to remember.