{"id":232462,"date":"2025-07-02T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232462\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:42:11","slug":"euro-2025-build-up-switzerland-ready-for-opener-as-tournament-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232462\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2025 build-up: Switzerland ready for opener as tournament begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘ I can see this being extremely close’published at 15:57 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

15:57 BST<\/p>\n

Switzerland v Norway (20:00 BST)<\/p>\n

\"RachelImage source, BBC Sport<\/p>\n

Norway will want to rectify what went wrong for them at Euro 2022.<\/p>\n

They have got Guro Reiten’s goals from midfield as well as Hegerberg and Graham Hansen up front, but they have not been scoring as heavily as you’d expect from a team with that kind of firepower.<\/p>\n

I do think their attack will click at this tournament, though, which is why they are my pick to top the group.<\/p>\n

Still, taking on the hosts is a tough way to start any tournament, and I can see this game being extremely close.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how Switzerland approach this – do they go out to not get beaten because they see this as their hardest game in Group A, or do they want to put down a marker as hosts and show what they can do?<\/p>\n

I don’t expect them to be too open, but I do think we will see a winner here… and I am going to go with Norway.<\/p>\n

Brown-Finnis’ prediction:<\/b> 0-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘ I can see this being extremely close’published at 15:57 British Summer Time 15:57 BST Switzerland v Norway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-232462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114784642648531314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232462","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=232462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}