'scotland Don't Want To Be World Cup One-hit Wonders'

Women's Rugby World Cup 2025: Scotland v Fiji

Venue: Salford Community Stadium Date: Saturday, 30 August Kick-off: 14:45 BST

Coverage: Live connected BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app, Radio 5 Live Sports Extra 2 and BBC Sounds

After a cleanable commencement to their Women's Rugby World Cup run pinch a objective demolition of Wales, nan situation for Scotland arsenic they hole to look Fiji is get backmost to nan lofty standards they person group themselves.

The Scots cognize a second-straight triumph is apt to beryllium rewarded pinch a spot successful nan quarter-finals.

They person put themselves successful a awesome position and nan past point they want is for their capacity against Wales to beryllium nan outlier, for this broadside to beryllium remembered arsenic World Cup one-hit wonders.

"I deliberation it's easy for different group to possibly look and beryllium like, 'oh, a wee spot of unit off', but really there's much unit connected than ever, because you can't conscionable put retired a capacity for illustration that and not backmost it up," said Scotland fastener Emma Wassell.

"We clasp that rather dense connected us. We really do want to show that we want to build wrong this World Cup, it's not conscionable going to beryllium 1 performance, we weren't conscionable performing for that 1 game."

After nan exhilaration of that outstanding six-try demolition of Wales, skipper Rachel Malcolm has spoken this week of really nan squad had to person an "emotional decompress", alternatively than simply riding nan momentum from Wales into Fiji.

She pointed retired you cannot conscionable "go from unreality 9 to unreality 10".

Whereas matchday 1 was viewed successful beforehand arsenic a 50-50 crippled - cipher saw a 30-point triumph coming - this clip Scotland are patient favourites.

Fiji are classed 14th successful nan world, 8 places beneath nan Scots, who moved up to sixth disconnected nan backmost of nan triumph complete Wales.

Having been thrashed 65-7 successful their Pool B opener by Canada, nan Fijians look location for nan taking, but nan Scots are not astir to let complacency to creep into their psyche and consequence squandering specified a promising commencement to nan tournament.

"There's nary action there, we person to spell and get nan occupation done," Malcolm said.

"We person looked astatine nan crippled from nan play and looked astatine immoderate of nan missed opportunities arsenic good arsenic nan things that we did well.

"It's rather easy erstwhile you suffer to wholly propulsion a crippled isolated and look astatine each nan bits that you tin amended on, but it's besides really easy erstwhile you triumph to deliberation that was nan complete performance.

"The first point we did erstwhile we looked astatine it was recognise those bits that we tin still alteration and we tin still get much from.

"There's loads of mini fixes wrong nan crippled wherever I deliberation we missed opportunities truthful that's what we've tried to do.

"We've tried to dainty it nan nonstop aforesaid that we would person treated it if we'd travel retired nan different broadside of that result, to make judge that we're not missing anything.

"We cognize against Fiji it's going to beryllium specified a different test. We request to beryllium fresh to return each opportunity that's fixed to us."