England v Sweden live: Kick-off time, team news and latest updates for Lionesses’ Women’s Euro 2025 quarter-final

Sweden make two changes from the 4-1 win over Germany. Hanna Lundkvist replaces Smilla Holmberg at right back and Julia Zigiotti Olme comes into the midfield in place of Hanna Bennison. Fridolina Rolfo is fit enough to start her second game in a row after recovering from injury.

Sweden XI: Falk; Lundkvist, Björn, Eriksson, Andersson; Angeldahl, Zigiotti Olme; Rytting Kaneryd, Asllani, Rolfö; Blackstenius

For the third game in a row, England are unchanged!

England XI; Hampton; Bronze, Williamson, Carter, Greenwood; Walsh, Stanway, Toone; James, Russo, Hemp

We’re a few minutes away from tonight’s team news. Will Sarina Wiegman spring a surprise and name any changes to her team? Or will the Lionesses, who looked to have found the winning formula following the France defeat, name the same team for a third game in a row…

“We’re flying under the radar and it suits us,” Sweden’s captain Kosovare Asllani said before facing England in the Euro 2025 quarter-finals.

Sweden have consistently reached Olympic finals, World Cup semi-finals and Euros semi-finals over the last decade but for some reason are never mentioned among the pre-tournament favourites.

Is that because they have been consistently unable to take the final step? Perhaps. But there is a growing belief in the Sweden camp that this could be their year, and that “something feels different”.

England fans followed a black cab as they joined together to march to the stadium ahead of tonight’s quarter-final against Sweden at Stadion Letzigrund.

They’ve taken some inspiration from the Netherlands fans from their last game in Zurich.

England have been playing knockout football at Euro 2025 since their opening defeat to France. But there is no one better at knockout football than Sarina Wiegman, who has made key adjustments in all three of England’s games while barely changing her starting line-up between each match.

It’s all part of Wiegman’s plan for England to be more adaptable and to have “ideas in our pocket”.

England face Sweden in the quarter-finals of Euro 2025 as the holders face a rematch of their semi-final three years ago.

The Lionesses thumped Sweden 4-0 at Bramall Lane on a memorable night, on their way to reaching the Euro 2022 final and winning the tournament.

Sweden will no doubt have revenge on their minds and impressively topped Group C by beating 10-player Germany 4-1 to reach the quarter-finals.

Sweden have several players who represent English clubs, including Arsenal striker Stina Blackstenius, and are familiar opponents for Sarina Wiegman’s side.

England bounced back from their opening defeat to France with comprehensive wins over Netherlands and Wales and have momentum behind them.

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Lucy Bronze said it was important for England to remember their roots after losing the opening game of Euro 2025 to France and believes the Lionesses will take an “underdog mentality” into tonight’s quarter-final with Sweden.

“We know England used to have to dig deep all the time,” said Bronze, who is playing at her seventh major international tournament. “2015 was the first time we beat Germany, that’s insane to think of right now.

“England of the past, it was that you had to dig out performances and it was that you were maybe the underdog, not the favourites. Whereas this England team has developed, football has changed.

“We’re a very talented team, a lot of technical ability, tactics, all that comes with it but we don’t want to ever forget that we are England, we are proper England and if push comes to shove, we can win a game by any means possible.”

Sweden captain Kosovare Asllani said her team does not fear anyone at Euro 2025.

England’s Ella Toone said “Sweden should be scared” after the Lionesses defeated Wales 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals.

“We respect England and the team they have and everything they have achieved so far. Fear? No. We don’t have the word fear in our dictionary,” Asllani said.

“We look up the word courage. Of course you have to respect one of the best sides in the world and we have the perfect gameplan for this match. We want to achieve the football we want to represent.

“I feel more a sense of longing to start the game. We want to go out and play our football intensely and physically. In our minds there is only one outcome and that is to win the game.”

England’s Beth Mead and Aggie Beever-Jones celebrated their goals against Wales by snapping their fingers in a show of appreciation towards those players who were left on the substitutes bench.

Mead and Beever-Jones came off the bench in the second half to score England’s fifth and sixth of the night against Wales and both celebrated by running towards the sidelines and clicking their fingers.

Afterwards Mead revealed that those left out of Sarina Wiegman’s starting line-up were “snapping” in an attempt to motivate each other before promising to celebrate that way if they came off the bench to score.