Sweden v England: Euro 2025 qualifying – live

Hannah Hampton starts tonight, with Mary Earps again on the bench. This piece, written by Tom Garry on Saturday, is even more relevant now.

Sarina Wiegman makes three changes to the Lionesses team that started the win over Republic of Ireland on Friday. Millie Bright, Lucy Bronze and Ella Toone come in for Alex Greenwood, Maya Le Tissier and Jess Park. It is, as our man Tom Garry points out, the same XI that started the win in France in June.

Peter Gerhardsson makes five changes to the Sweden side that lost 2-1 in France. Hanna Lundkvist, Magda Eriksson, Filippa Angeldahl, Kosovare Asllani and Madelen Janogy replace Josefine Rybrink, Emma Kullberg, Hanna Bennison, Sofia Jakobsson and Evelyn Ijeh.

You’ve got 60 seconds to remember all that and then we’ll have a spot test.

Sweden (4-3-3) Musovic; Lundkvist, Sembrant, Eriksson, J Andersson; Angeldahl, Asllani, Zigotti Olme; Rytting Kaneryd, Janogy, Rolfo.
Substitutes: Bennison, Bjorn, Falk, Glas, Holmgren, Ijeh, Jakobsson, Kafaji, Rubensson, Rybrink, Sandberg, Vinberg.

England (4-3-3) Hampton; Bronze, Williamson, Bright, Carter; Stanway, Walsh, Toone; Mead, Russo, Hemp.
Substitutes: Charles, Earps, Clinton, Greenwood, Keating, Kelly, Kirby, Le Tissier, Naz, Park, Turner.

Referee Maria Caputi (Italy).

Evening one and all. The big games keep coming, eh. Forty-six hours on from the Euro 2024 final, the Lionesses face a crucial Euro 2025 qualifier against Sweden in Gothenburg. It’s a playoff before the playoffs: one team will clinch a place at next summer’s tournament in Switzerland, the other will have to take the circuitous route at the end of the year, knowing all the while that one wrong turn could be fatal.

England, who are three points ahead of Sweden, only need a draw tonight, though that comes with its own challenges. Stick or twist? Sarina Wiegman is pretty clear that she wants England to go for the win.

“We are never ­playing a match to draw,” Wiegman said. “We are ­playing a match to win. And, [if] we win the game, we might even top the group too. Everyone expects France to win [against Ireland] but you never know what happens in football.

“Tomorrow is a very important game for us, we can still become third in the group as well as first. That’s how we approach it. We’ve had some very good training sessions, everyone is fit and we’re ready.”

Kick off 6pm.