Ireland Relishing Facing 'world-class' New Zealand

Women's Rugby World Cup - Pool C: Ireland v New Zealand

Venue: Brighton & Hove Albion Stadium Date: Sunday, 7 September Kick-off: 14:45 BST

Coverage: Live connected BBC Two and BBC iPlayer from 14:30, BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra from 14:30 and BBC Radio Ulster and Foyle from 14:00 pinch unrecorded pinch matter commentary connected nan BBC Sport website.

Scrum-half Emily Lane says Ireland are "raring to go" and "looking guardant to nan challenge" of facing defending champions New Zealand successful Sunday's World Cup Pool C decider successful Brighton.

Both sides person already reached nan quarter-finals aft winning their opening 2 matches pinch prize points, but nan victor of Sunday's crippled will apical nan group.

"It's awesome that we person qualified but we each want to spell retired this play and perform, put our manus up and effort to apical nan pool," said Lane.

"We conscionable want to show nan world that we're tin of competing pinch nan top-class teams successful nan world for illustration New Zealand, who person won nan World Cup six times.

"They are a world-class squad and we respect that truthful we want to bring our champion ft guardant going into this game."

Ireland hit Japan 42-14 successful their opening crippled earlier defeating Spain 43-27 past weekend, but Costigan knows location are immoderate areas of capacity to reside earlier facing nan mightiness of nan Black Ferns.

"You person to recognise nan positives but we still person room for improvement, we want to minimise our penalties, beryllium much beingness and extremity those tries.

"As backs we person been moving connected executing successful nan greenish zone, scoring tries, and I deliberation we've been doing that.

"Hopefully we tin put into believe what we've been trying to hole from those 2 games."

Ireland secured a sensational 29-27 win complete nan world champions successful their astir caller meeting, a WXV1 brushwood successful Vancouver past September.

"That was a different clip for us. For maine personally I'd conscionable travel into nan squad truthful I was still benignant of uncovering my feet a spot and watching a fewer different group return nan lead, whereas now I'm much embedded wrong nan team," explained nan Ireland Sevens Paris Olympian.

Ireland played their opening 2 World Cup fixtures successful Northampton, but person moved to Brighton for Sunday's game, pinch a near-capacity 30,000 crowd expected to beryllium successful attendance astatine nan Brighton & Hove Albion Stadium.

The mostly will beryllium supporting Scott Bemand's side.

"The astir breathtaking point astir this full World Cup is nan support, nan truth that we're truthful adjacent to location arsenic well, it astir feels for illustration a location World Cup.

"The crowd successful Northampton were unbelievable and location will beryllium 3 times that magnitude this weekend. It's truthful breathtaking and it's specified a privilege to person that support."