England strolled into the quarter-finals of Euro 2025 with an emphatic victory over Wales, whose exit from the tournament was confirmed after three successive defeats.<\/b><\/p>\n
Sarina Wiegman’s side knew victory would secure their place in the last eight – where they will face Sweden – and they showed why they were worthy of the spot from the first minute in St Gallen.<\/p>\n
Georgia Stanway opened the scoring from the penalty spot after the video assistant referee spotted contact from Carrie Jones on the midfielder was inside the box.<\/p>\n
Manchester United midfielder Ella Toone joined in on the act shortly afterwards, firing her rebounded effort into the roof of the net, before turning provider for Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo in a ruthless first-half display.<\/p>\n
While the onslaught tailed off in the second half, substitute Beth Mead still made her mark, jinking past Josephine Green in the box to slot home England’s fifth after good work from Aggie Beever-Jones. <\/p>\n
Chelsea forward Beever-Jones joined in too, adding a late goal shortly before the full-time whistle.<\/p>\n
England’s dominance did not waiver and Wales, competing in their first major tournament, were shown the brutal level of Europe’s elite.<\/p>\n
However, there was some consolation for Wales as Hannah Cain thumped the ball past goalkeeper Hannah Hampton later in the second half, causing an eruption of celebration from the supporters behind the goal. <\/p>\n
It was still a bruising night for Rhian Wilkinson’s side, who have lost all three of their group games against France, the Netherlands and England, scoring two goals and conceding 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England strolled into the quarter-finals of Euro 2025 with an emphatic victory over Wales, whose exit from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-262897","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\/114848780049558355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262897","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=262897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}