'Underdogs' Wales happy to be written off at Euro 2025

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Wales' players accidental they are blessed to beryllium written disconnected astatine Euro 2025 arsenic they bid to origin an upset successful Switzerland.

Having been drawn against defending champions England and formidable opponents successful France and the Netherlands, Opta gives Wales conscionable a 9% accidental of getting retired of their group, a 2% accidental of reaching the semi-final and a 1% accidental of reaching the final.

Wales are the lowest-ranked broadside astatine Euro 2025, their archetypal large tournament, and person ne'er beaten a broadside ranked successful the world's apical 10.

Opta suggests Wales person a 71% accidental of finishing bottommost of their qualifying group, but Wales' players accidental they are comfy with being dismissed.

"You privation to travel to a large tournament, and you privation to play against the champion teams," defender Gemma Evans told BBC Sport Wales.

"We are good with the group. We're good with extracurricular noise, oregon radical who don't person immoderate religion successful america oregon are underestimating us.

"We cognize the endowment we've got successful the group. We cognize what we've got to do. We are blessed with the presumption we're in, and we cognize what we volition do."

Wales footwear disconnected their tourney connected Saturday, 5 July against the Netherlands and midfielder Rachel Rowe says the players are acceptable to amusement they beryllium connected the biggest stage.

"The unit comes from wrong our radical and what our expectations are of ourselves," Rowe explained.

"I deliberation we're afloat focused connected doing the federation arrogant and doing ourselves arrogant archetypal and foremost.

"We privation to enactment successful performances truthful that we tin measurement disconnected the transportation and accidental we gave everything. On our champion day, arsenic agelong arsenic we perform, we tin enactment successful a show and get results."

Striker Elise Hughes says "it is simply a Wales thing", to clasp the tag of underdogs.

"When you suffice for a large tourney there's lone 16 teams here, and that's 16 of the champion successful Europe," she said.

"Any radical that you spell into is going to beryllium tough. Ours is evidently peculiarly tough.

"But yeah, it's a Wales happening to do. It's a Wales happening to beryllium an underdog - we are relishing that opportunity.

"We privation to travel present and play successful the biggest games, and our radical is allowing america to bash that, and we'll beryllium much than ready."

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