{"id":263681,"date":"2025-07-14T07:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263681\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:46:13","slug":"we-are-building-nicely-reaction-as-england-beat-wales-to-reach-euro-2025-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263681\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are building nicely&#8217; &#8211; reaction as England beat Wales to reach Euro 2025 quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England set up Sweden quarter final as Wales exitpublished at 07:12 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>07:12 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">England 6-1 Wales<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2b9454c3-33ba-4022-89a3-9bae3087b458.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Emma Sanders<\/strong><br \/>BBC Sport women\u2019s football news reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren Hemp celebrates with teammates\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/74bacbe3-9114-4a55-aceb-2c004b14ce5d.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarina Wiegman&#8217;s side knew victory would secure their place in the last eight &#8211; where they will face Sweden &#8211; and they showed why they were worthy of the spot from the first minute in St Gallen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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&#8217;s fifth after good work from Aggie Beever-Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea forward Beever-Jones joined in too, adding a late goal shortly before the full-time whistle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s dominance did not waiver and Wales, competing in their first major tournament, were shown the brutal level of Europe&#8217;s elite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England set up Sweden quarter final as Wales exitpublished at 07:12 British Summer Time 07:12 BST England 6-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-263681","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\/114850482517046912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263681","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=263681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}