Spain rains goals on Costa Rica

Spain's biggest win since the start of the World Cup was against Costa Rica.

As expected, Spain showed their superior strength when they completely took the initiative and put terrible pressure on Keylor Navas's goal (Costa Rica). Statistics showed that the team from South America controlled the match up to 80%, along with many opportunities created by Luis Enrique and his team. Under great pressure from the 2010 World Cup champion, Costa Rica could not stand firm. In the 11th minute, Olmo opened the score for Spain. The goal came from a situation where Gavi passed the ball to Olmo, this player had a clever turn before defeating goalkeeper Keylor Navas.

Spain completely took the initiative.

By the 20th minute, Spain had doubled their lead. Jordi Alba crossed just in time for Asensio to finish, making it 2-0. Just a few minutes later, Alba entered the penalty area and was fouled, the referee awarded Spain a penalty. Ferran Torres easily beat goalkeeper Keylor Navas from the penalty spot to make it 3-0 for Spain.

Entering the second half, the game did not change much compared to the first 45 minutes. Spain easily dominated the game, and soon scored the 4th goal thanks to Torres. Young star Gavi continued to score, raising the score to 5-0 for Spain. The goal came from a high pass from Morata, Gavi was there at the right time, finishing with a delicate 1-touch shot that defeated goalkeeper Keylor Navas.

Towards the end of the match, Spain scored two more goals by Soler and Morata to make the score 7-0.

In the final match of the 4th day of the 2022 World Cup, Belgium won a minimal victory against Canada.

Canada caused a lot of trouble for Belgium.

Surprisingly, Canada entered the match with more confidence than the team ranked 2nd in Fifa. Canada launched an attack and continuously created a series of shots in front of goalkeeper Courtois' goal.

And Canada even had a penalty, but could not beat the Belgian goalkeeper. The situation came in the 9th minute, the ball hit Yannick Carrasco's hand after a shot by Tajon Buchanan and the referee awarded a penalty to Canada after a VAR check. However, Alphonso Davies could not beat Courtois from the 11m mark.

Batshuayi opened the scoring for Belgium in the 44th minute of the match.

Not conceding a goal made Belgium play more confidently and organize many quality attacks. In the 44th minute, the European team scored the opening goal.

From a cross from his own half, Batshuayi accelerated and eliminated the Canadian defender before finishing into the top corner past goalkeeper Borjan.

In the second half, Canada tried to push up their formation to find an equalizer but failed, thereby suffering a narrow defeat. Winning 1-0 in the end, Belgium temporarily took the lead in Group F.

Before that, in the two early matches at 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., Croatia was held to a 0-0 draw by Morocco; Japan caused a shock by defeating Germany 2-1.

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