Women's EURO 2025: Players to watch on Matchday 2: Jess Fishlock, Pernille Harder, Katariina Kosola, Tessa Wullaert

UEFA Women's EURO 2025 continues from Sunday with the second set of group games.

We pick out a player to watch from each of the four groups, from a Matchday 1 hero to national icons.

Jess Fishlock (Wales)

It's been a long road for Wales to their major tournament debut, and Fishlock was on the journey for most of the way, from her debut aged 19 in March 2006 away to Switzerland, to the Women's EURO finals here nearly two decades on. Her creative and attacking talent, which has got her close to 50 international goals in more than 160 appearances, are evidence enough of her importance to Wales, but Fishlock's inspirational leadership and tireless determination have been at the heart of their rise from minnows to the highest European stage.

After Saturday's opening 3-0 loss against the Netherlands, it gets no easier on Wednesday as France await in St.Gallen (and England also lurk in Group D). Yet Wales, and Fishlock, did not make it here by bowing to opponents' stellar reputations, and the country's most capped player – whose career has taken her to France, the Netherlands and England among other major leagues – is no stranger to the highest stage.

Pernille Harder (Denmark)

Harder began the final tournament on the same 162-cap tally as Fishlock and has been just as much of a talisman for Denmark. She and her nation are of no strangers to major championships; their run to the Women's EURO 2017 final was the highlight, with Harder named in the Official Best Eleven, just one of many individual honours to go with her many trophies at club level.

These include ten consecutive league titles, the two most recent with Bayern München to add to four German domestic doubles at Wolfsburg. And with Germany next up for Denmark in Basel on Tuesday following the opening loss to Sweden, the supreme attacking talent that has brought Harder nearly 80 international goals will be crucial to getting their Group C campaign back on track.

Katariina Kosola (Finland)

Finland's distinctly mixed form of late had many fearing for their Group A chances, but instead they launched their campaign with their first major tournament win since hosting Women's EURO 2009, beating Iceland 1-0. Kosola was the star of the show, not least for her magnificent winner.

"I'm good at finishing and try to shoot a lot. It was the kind of goal I have been practising a lot," the midfielder said afterwards, but it was not just in attack that she excelled. Her defensive duties proved key to securing the clean sheet and will be vital again on Sunday in Sion where fellow opening Group A winners Norway await.

Tessa Wullaert (Belgium)

It was a frustrating evening for Belgium on Thursday as they lost their Group B opener 1-0 to Italy, and next up on Monday in Thun are in-form world champions Spain. However, the Red Flames' record scorer Wullaert, approaching 100 goals for Belgium, came close several times to increasing that tally.

Wullaert scored against Spain in February, putting Belgium 2-0 up in a UEFA Women's Nations League game in Valencia that they would lose 3-2. Having also helped inspire victory against England in the same group, Wullaert has proved throughout this year, and indeed her career, that there is no challenge she cannot rise to – or rally her team to confront.