Japan has won two out of two matches in the Women’s World Cup. Japan beat Costa Rica 2-0. Japan are guaranteed a last 16 place after a 2-0 win.
FIFA Women’s World Cup: Japan vs Costa Rica 2-0 Group c
Japan beat Costa Rica 2-0.
FIFA Women’s World Cup: Japan are guaranteed a last 16 place after 2-0 win.
Japan’s Hikaru Naomoto gives Japan a 1-0 lead in the 25th minute.
Two minutes later Aoba Fujino scored the winning goal for Japan against Costa Rica.
FIFA Women’s World Cup: Japan beat Zambia 5-0 in their first group game.
FIFA Women’s World Cup: Costa Rica lost 3–0 to Spain in their first match.
The game was stopped because Gloriana Villalobos grabbed her face and needed treatment.
Daniela Solera has made 15 saves so far for Japan which is more than any other goalkeeper.
Japan has won both its games and is on top with 6 points.
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The Japan vs Costa Rica match is played at the Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin, New Zealand. In which Japan defeated Costa Rica 2-0. Disappointing for Costa Rica as both those goals were preventable. So far seven goals have been scored by the Japan team and not a single goal has been scored against them. The Costa Rican team went all out for their first win. But Japan could not recover from the two goals in the first half.
Costa Rica :- Solera; Guillen, Benavides, Villalobos; Cotto, Elizondo, Granados, Alvarado; Herrera, Salas, Chinchilla
Japan: – Yamashita; Minami, Kumagi, Miyake; Shimizu, Sugita, Naomoto, Hasegawa, Hayashi; Tanaka, Fujino