SYDNEY - History will be made at the Women's World Cup on Sunday when England and Spain clash in the final in Sydney with both bidding to win the tournament for the first time.
The game kicks off at 1000 GMT in front of an anticipated sell-out crowd of about 75,000 at Stadium Australia.
It will be the final act of a tournament full of shocks which began one month ago and started with 32 teams, making it the biggest Women's World Cup ever.
Now they are down to the last two and it's a final too close to call. Neither team has ever got this far before.
The two sides last met at the European Championship last summer, when hosts England squeezed into the semi-finals 2-1 in extra time and went on to lift the trophy.
Coach Sarina Wiegman and defender Millie Bright said they were attempting to think of this as just another game, but the skipper admitted there was no getting away from the enormity of the occasion.
"We know how passionate our nation is back home and how much they want us to win," Bright said on Saturday.
"But for us there is a process, we have a game plan to execute and we need to play the game of our lives."
Except against Nigeria, England have been mostly ruthless and machine-like in reaching the final, especially in silencing the home crowd in the 3-1 victory over Australia.
Spain are more slick and have often passed their opponents into submission, coupled with sparks of attacking flair.
England are unbeaten at the tournament, but a notable blip for Jorge Vilda's side was their 4-0 drubbing to a Japan team which hit Spain at pace on the counterattack in the group phase.
Spain had never even won a knockout match at the World Cup until this edition and their exploits are even more impressive for the turmoil that threatened to torpedo their chances.
Whoever wins, it will be a new name on the Women's World Cup.
The United States, who had been chasing a third title in a row, went out on penalties in the last 16 to Sweden.
Norway, Germany and Japan are the only other nations to have lifted the trophy.