Euro 2025: Day Five Analysis and Opinion

Norway sealed top spot in Group A with a game to spare despite another unconvincing performance, while hosts Switzerland put themselves in the driving seat to join them in the quarter-finals...

It was an exciting day of action which saw our first quarter-finalist booked and our first team eliminated as the group stage now ramps up into the second round of games. Norway squeezed past Finland despite another below-par attacking performance, while a new generation of Swiss talent fired the hosts to a crucial win to eliminate Iceland.

An exciting new Switzerland team showed a first glimpse of a bright future to the rest of Europe. Image: Andrew Yates / Sportimage

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How do you solve a problem like Norway?

A little bit of luck and an own goal, apparently.

It’s been a more than curious few days for Norway already, and while many of the questions which lingered for many years still linger, they have six points out of six and look in good shape to progress to the quarter-finals as group winners.

It all started so well against Finland when Caroline Graham Hansen’s low cross saw Gemma Grainger’s side draw a second own goal in as many goals, but beyond that Norway reverted to type, a lack of intensity, cutting edge, a midfield being strolled through and a defence which looked at sea every time Finland came forward.

Finland may wonder why and how they didn’t punish them further beyond Oona Sevenius’s fine equaliser, hitting the woodwork (though Norway also did so twice), before Graham Hansen’s looped cross to the back post found the back of the net.

Questions certainly still remain on how any head coach will finally get this group of incredibly talented players to click into gear, but at least this time they are picking up the right results, and despite everything have won Group A with a game to spare!