{"id":229186,"date":"2025-07-01T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229186\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:38:10","slug":"womens-euro-2025-underdogs-wales-happy-to-be-written-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229186\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Euro 2025: ‘Underdogs’ Wales happy to be written off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wales’ players say they are happy to be written off at Euro 2025 as they bid to cause an upset in Switzerland.<\/b><\/p>\n

Having been drawn against defending champions England and formidable opponents in France and the Netherlands, Opta give Wales just a 9% chance of getting out of their group<\/a>, a 2% chance of reaching the semi-final, a 1% chance of reaching the final.<\/p>\n

Wales are the lowest ranked side at Euro 2025, their first major tournament, and have never beaten a side ranked in the world’s top ten.<\/p>\n

Opta suggest Wales have a 71% chance of finishing bottom of their qualifying group, but Wales’ players say they are comfortable with being dismissed as having no hope.<\/p>\n

“You want to come to a major tournament, and you want to play against the best teams,” defender Gemma Evans told BBC Sport Wales.<\/p>\n

“We are fine with the group. We’re fine with outside noise, or people who don’t have any faith in us or are underestimating us.<\/p>\n

“We know the talent we’ve got in the group. We know what we’ve got to do. We are happy with the position we’re in, and we know what we will do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales’ players say they are happy to be written off at Euro 2025 as they bid to cause…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-229186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114777784809047614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}