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– Fulham’s Bryan Ruiz  becomes the third player to play or have played in England to score goals that have contributed to England’s first elimination from the group stage of the World Cup for the first time in more than 50 years.

– England are knocked out at the group stages of a major international tournament for the first time since Euro 2000.

· Costa Rica have scored in 7 of their last 8 World Cup matches; Ecuador (3-0) are the only team to have stopped them from scoring in that time.

· Italy fail to score in a World Cup group game for the first time since 1998.

· Italy lose a third World Cup group game since 2002; one in each of the 2002, 2010 & 2014 World Cups.

· 8 of Costa Rica’s last 12 World Cup goals have came against past World Cup winners – Brazil (5-2) in 2002, Germany (4-2) in 2006, Uruguay (1-3) in 2014 & Italy (0-1) in 2014.

· All of Costa Rica’s goals (4) at the 2014 World Cup have been scored by different scorers (4).

· 3 of the 8 different World Cup winners are effectively knocked out of the 2014 World Cup given that Spain & England have been mathmatically knocked out & Costa Rica’s 2 victories against past champions Uruguay (1-3) & Italy (0-1) – winners of 6 World Cups between them – means one of the two cannot progress to the next round.