OTTAWA, Ontario — Celia Sasic scored the fastest hat trick in Women’s World Cup history and Anja Mittag also scored three goals to spark top-ranked Germany to a 10-0 victory over Ivory Coast on Sunday in a Group B match – the second-most lopsided win in event history.

Germany used a crisp, efficient passing game to dominate in the offensive zone.

Leonie Maier found a wide-open Sasic at the top of the 6-meter box for her first goal midway through the third minute. Lena Goessling then threaded a cross into the box that Sasic headed into an open goal in the 14th minute. Goessling struck again in the 29th minute with a pass that Mittag left-footed past goalkeeper Dominique Thiamale. Sasic completed her hat trick in the 31st minute, punching home a pass from Mittag, who completed the first-half spree in the 35th minute for her second goal.

Sasic was replaced to start the second half, and Mittag completed her hat trick in the 64th minute, beating Thiamale on a breakaway.

Simone Laudehr scored in the 71st minute and was quickly replaced by Lena Petermann, who found Sara Dabriotz with a cross through the box for Germany’s eighth goal in the 75th minute. Melanie Behringer trapped the ball off a corner kick at the top of the box and drove it through the hands of Thiamale for the ninth goal. Alexandra Popp scored the 10th on a free kick from outside the 18-meter box in the 85th minute.

Germany, the two-time World Cup champions, own the record for most lopsided World Cup game, an 11-0 rout of Argentina in 2011.

Ivory Coast, playing just its second international match of the calendar year and making its first appearance in the Women’s World Cup, was issued six yellow cards and managed just four shots on the German goal.

NORWAY 4, THAILAND 0: Norway dominated Thailand to open Group B play.

No. 11-ranked Norway scored in the 15th minute when Trine Ronning bent a free kick around a wall of defenders to beat goalkeeper Waraporn Boonsing.

Isabell Herlovsen added a pair of goals five minutes apart, beating Boonsing in the 29th minute and heading in a crossing pass from Solveig Gulbrandsen in the 34th. Ada Hegerberg capped the scoring in the 68th minute.

The lowest-ranked team in the field at 67th, Thailand made the tournament with a fifth-place finish at the Asian Cup after a steroid scandal involving five players from No. 8-ranked North Korea at the 2011 World Cup.

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