{"id":22296,"date":"2025-07-25T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/22296\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:51:08","slug":"euro-2025-england-to-bring-it-home-rachel-brown-finnis-final-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/22296\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2025: England to bring it home? Rachel Brown-Finnis&#8217; final prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watch live on BBC One, iPlayer and the BBC Sport website; live commentary on Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England will know they can play much better than they did in their quarter-final and semi-final wins over Sweden and Italy, and success on Sunday is a matter of them bringing their best game from the first second to the last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Against a team as good as Spain, they cannot afford any defensive mistakes &#8211; they have to be absolutely watertight at the back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Germany defended superbly against Spain in their semi-final and goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger had a brilliant tournament. But she made one mistake at the very end and that was all it took for them to go out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain have so many world-class players and arguably the best in Aitana Bonmati, that they can take advantage of any error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England won&#8217;t be afraid of them, though. There is no chance of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From the outside, beating the world champions might seem like a daunting task. Spain were the better side when they beat the Lionesses in the 2023 World Cup final and they have won 10 games in a row &#8211; a run that includes victory over England the last time they met, in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Spain&#8217;s last defeat, in February, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cr52m6jddlrt#Report\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">came against the Lionesses at Wembley.<\/a> Having a recent result like that to lean on for reassurance is huge ahead of an occasion like this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I look back at that game and think England can do it this time too &#8211; and the players will 100% believe it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch live on BBC One, iPlayer and the BBC Sport website; live commentary on Radio 5 Live and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-22296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}