Spanish star's trickery leaves Costa Rica stunned

Thanks for tuning into Wide World of Sports' unrecorded sum of time 2 of the FIFA Women's 2023 World Cup.

In Friday's last game, Spain were excessively beardown for Costa Rica with a 3-0 scoreline. 

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Matildas prima Ellie Carpenter has spoken of the devastation astir Sam Kerr's wounded as it appears progressively improbable the prima volition look successful the World Cup radical stage.

"It was evidently heartbreaking for Sam personally and for america too," she said aft her side's triumph implicit Ireland.

"But we cognize that she was with america passim the full 90 minutes and we played for her and won for her. We cognize that she'll beryllium backmost soon.

"Being successful a squad situation everyone gets astir each different during the hard times and the bully times arsenic well. We're each determination for her similar she's ever determination for america during times. This is the astir important clip for america to each rally astir her and we cognize that she'll get herself close to travel and assistance america successful the second stages.

"It's truly large that we person 7 days (until the adjacent game). We ne'er truly get that agelong betwixt games successful a large tourney truthful (we're) truly going to instrumentality vantage of the betterment successful these adjacent 7 days and beryllium caller arsenic we tin beryllium for adjacent Thursday against Nigeria."

Spain's archetypal lucifer is officially successful the books and it ends arsenic a 3-0 triumph implicit Costa Rica.

This lucifer was efficaciously implicit wrong the archetypal fractional an hr and past it was a canter from thereon after.

Costa Rica volition beryllium encouraged by its ain 2nd fractional show wherever the Spaniards were fixed thing to deliberation about, but successful the extremity Spain were a people above. 

Spain managing this crippled beautifully astatine the moment, inactive with a three-goal cushion.

Meanwhile, the heavens person opened up successful Wellington and this transportation has gotten existent slippery each of a sudden.

Costa Rica would dearly emotion to get astatine slightest 1 back, conscionable to assistance their extremity quality for the remainder of the radical stage. 

England skipper Millie Bright has been cleared to commencement the Lionesses' FIFA Women's World Cup opener against Haiti connected Saturday successful a important boost for manager Sarina Weigman.

Bright injured her genu successful Chelsea's Champions League quarterfinal archetypal limb with Lyon successful March, limiting her mentation clip for the tourney being co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

"I'm grateful that I'm capable to play and ace excited to beryllium here," she said Friday. "I was surrounded by the champion people, truthful I was precise assured successful my recovery. I've been fixed perfectly everything that I needed to beryllium successful this position."

It's 3 for Spain successful the abstraction of conscionable 5 minutes!

The shot is crossed successful from the close helping and Hermoso is unlucky arsenic she hits the crossbar with the header, but Esther Gonzalez is determination to sound it backmost in.

Costa Rica doesn't cognize what has deed them.

Spain has travel retired of the gates humming and person 2 goals wrong the archetypal 25 minutes!

The archetypal came via an ain extremity from Costa Rica's Valeria Del Campo successful the 21st infinitesimal earlier Aitana Bonmati struck with a superb decorativeness conscionable 90 seconds later.

Spain looking similar a unit to beryllium reckoned with truthful far!

The last lucifer of today's triple-header should beryllium an breathtaking watch!

It's Spain taking connected Costa Rica successful Wellington.

The Spaniards are presently ranked No.6 successful the satellite rankings, portion Costa Rica is presently ranked 36th.