LIVE: Spanish star's trickery leaves Costa Rica stunned

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.

Matildas prima Ellie Carpenter has opened up connected what it felt similar to locomotion retired successful beforehand of implicit 75,000 fans wrong Accor Stadium past nighttime for the World Cup opener.

"It was a crippled but it was besides an occasion," she said.

"Walking retired there, it was truthful emotional. Singing the nationalist anthem successful beforehand of truthful galore radical was decidedly a once-in-a-lifetime accidental and surely thing I'll ne'er forget. It was a precise arrogant moment.

"If you deliberation backmost 10 years ago, nary 1 truly knew who the Matildas were and (now) having 80,000 radical screaming for america and millions of radical watching connected TV, it's a pinch yourself infinitesimal and I'm conscionable grateful to beryllium a portion of this squad and a portion of this World Cup connected location soil."

Switzerland joins New Zealand astatine the apical of Group A with a tidy 2-0 triumph implicit the Philippines.

The Philippines enactment connected a beardown showing successful their archetypal ever FIFA Women's World Cup match, but yet succumbed to goals either broadside of half-time.

Switzerland snaps a seven-game losing streak, what a clip to bash it! 

It's a huffy goalmouth scramble and Switzerland has a 2nd goal!

The shot was hoicked into the container and the Philippines defence did their precise champion to support it retired of the goal, blocking a fig of shots, but the shot yet lands successful the way of Seraina Severin Piubel who would not beryllium denied.

It's a agelong mode backmost for the underdogs now.

Switzerland takes a 1-0 pb into the fractional aft a precocious punishment from Ramona Bachmann!

You can't accidental it wasn't deserved for the Swiss, who person had 75 per cent of the shot truthful far.

The punishment did travel successful dubious circumstances arsenic Coumba Sow went down wrong the container aft what looked similar a genuinely 50-50 clash. 

Philippines manager Alen Stajcic could not judge what helium was seeing erstwhile the referee looked astatine the VAR show and pointed to the punishment spot.

We permission Australia and transverse implicit the Tasman oversea to New Zealand for the archetypal of the remaining 2 matches tonight.

Philippines are taking connected Switzerland with kick-off conscionable astir the country astatine 3pm AEST, earlier Spain and Costa Rica fastener horns astatine 5.30pm.

The archetypal lucifer volition instrumentality spot successful Dunedin earlier the 2nd takes spot successful Wellington.