Spain’s emphatic 7-0 win over Costa Rica on Wednesday was the highest scoreline witnessed so far at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar with the 2010 world champions exhibiting a sleek display against the North Americans, but where does that win rank in history of big wins at the world’s biggest football fiesta?.The triumph over Costa Rica was Spain’s biggest win at the World Cup, overshadowing their 6-1 win over Bulgaria in 1998.There have been only six wins with a margin bigger than the one Luis Enrique’s charges recorded on Wednesday, most of those coming in the 20th century.Hungary is the only team to ever register a double-digit win with their 10-1 win over El Salvador in 1982 in the opening round of the tournament then. despite their historic win, Hungary was eliminated at the group stage after falling 4-1 to Argentina and playing to a one-all draw with Belgium.🇪🇸 Spain record their BIGGEST-EVER win at a World Cup 💪#FIFAWorldCup pic.twitter.com/LbVpwvJsjG— SuperSport Football ⚽️ (@SSFootball) November 23, 2022 In the same game, László Kiss came off the bench in the second half to score a hat-trick in a span of just seven minutes. the only World Cup hat-trick by a substitute as well as the fastest hat-trick in a World Cup match.Earlier, during the 1954 edition, Hungary beat South Korea 9-0 to record the first-ever nine-goal margin win, a feat that was matched by Yugoslavia in the 1974 World in their identical 9-0 win over Zaire.##NAJAVA_MECA_6843378##The nine-goal wins by Hungary and Yugoslavia in 1954 and 1974 respectively, together with Hungary’s 10-1 win over El Salvador are the highest margins ever recorded at the men’s tournament.Before Hungary and Yugoslavia took the crown, Sweden held the record for the biggest win at the World Cup with their 8-0 win over Cuba at the 1938 edition.7 – Spain 🇪🇸 achieved their biggest win in World Cup history, surpassing the 6-1 win over Bulgaria in 1998, becoming the first team to score seven goals from just eight shots on target in a single game in the history of the tournament since 1966. Overwhelming pic.twitter.com/NVYzY2Bcdd— OptaJose (@OptaJose) November 23, 2022 Uruguay and Germany have also won World Cup matches with eight clear goals, the former doing so in 1950 over Bolivia in an 8-0 win and Germany being the most recent team to win with such a margin following their 8-0 triumph over Saudi Arabia in 2002.Then comes the sevens. Four teams have won their respective matches at the World Cup with a margin of seven goals, and this margin stands at seventh in the rank of biggest World Cup wins, including the latest one by Spain.Uruguay and Turkey did so in the 1954 edition, beating Scotland and South Korea by an identical 7-0 scoreline Poland followed with a similar onslaught 20 years later during the 1974 edition as they dispatched Haiti.Portugal were next to win with a 7-0 scoreline, doing so in South Africa in 2010 as they saw off North Korea.Will we see more big-margin wins in the remaining 48 matches?
