Beth Mead: Lionesses forward on adapting to new role at Euro 2025

England guardant Beth Mead's relation astatine Euro 2025 is precise antithetic to the 1 she enjoyed 3 years ago.

Named subordinate of the tourney and victor of the Golden Boot, Mead played a starring relation successful England's occurrence astatine Euro 2022.

Her stunning performances were capped disconnected with six goals and 5 assists - the astir successful the tournament.

It led to countless honours including being named the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, arsenic good arsenic coming runner-up successful the Ballon d'Or and Uefa Player of the Year Awards.

But truthful acold successful Switzerland, 30-year-old Mead has started conscionable 1 of England's 4 games, scoring erstwhile successful the 6-1 Group D triumph implicit Wales.

She has adapted to a caller relation arsenic 1 of Sarina Wiegman's 'finishers' - a word the squad usage to explicit the value of the substitutes.

"You've got to beryllium acceptable to spell into the moment," Arsenal guardant Mead told BBC Sport.

"You've got to beryllium acceptable to spell into a presumption that you mightiness not privation to play oregon don't usually play successful and that was what was antithetic for maine [against Sweden].

"I ended up playing successful midfield arsenic a fig six and past I was a fig 10 - I changed presumption a fewer times successful the crippled and I loved it.

"I emotion being connected the pitch, I emotion being capable to bash what I tin bash for the squad but they're the things that you person to beryllium capable to bash arsenic a player.

"You person to expect the unexpected and beryllium consenting to bash what you request to bash for the squad and the greater good."

England's substitutes person played a cardinal relation successful Switzerland, scoring 3 goals en way to the semi-finals.

Since Euro 2022, England substitutes person scored 4 result-altering goals - each successful knockout games - which is much than immoderate different nation.

It is up to Mead, among others, to proceed to supply Wiegman with squad depth.

"It's not casual erstwhile you cognize you're not starting and you're playing good oregon immoderate but I deliberation that's what has acceptable america isolated arsenic a team," she added.

"The togetherness, the willingness to effort to marque each different better, to effort to marque each different consciousness similar we tin fig it out.

"That's thing that I've besides seen arsenic a displacement of my role. I truly cognize however important that is - from being a starter to being competitory successful grooming - to marque america better. So acold I deliberation we're doing a bully occupation of that."