England Women v Spain Women
6-0 winners against Scotland, England Women are in scintilating form, and will be trying their utmost not to start dreaming of glory too early, so a match with Spain (ranked 13th in the world) should hold no fear for them.
Regular readers will be familiar with our methods of form evaluation by now for this competition. Simply speaking, there is a much more rapid drop off in quality of sides in the Womens Rankings, than in the mens game. A team ranked 20 places higher in the Ladies game than their opponents, can be near on certainties.
So here we have England ranked 5th versus Spain ranked 13h. The Spanish record against Top 10 sides is not too shabby, with two wins and four defeats from six matches over the past three years.
England really are a top side though, and they have a 9-4-2 record against sides ranked 6th-20th, scoring an average 1.66 goals per game and conceeding 0.6 per match.
We'd fully expected them to be a good shade of odds-on in this one - it's a great opportunity to get the group won to leave their last game a formality. At 13/10, England look an absolute
England to win at 13/10 at Bet365