Japan 2-0 Costa Rica: Women’s World Cup Group C – as it happened

Aoba Fujino celebrates after scoring for Japan in the win over Costa Rica in Dunedin. Photograph: Harriet Lander/FIFA/Getty Images

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And here’s the match report from Dunedin:

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