Defending champions Canada take on Germany on Saturday in a bid to reach the semi-finals of the Olympic women's football tournament after they made the knockouts despite a points deduction over a spying scandal.
PARIS - Defending champions Canada take on Germany on Saturday in a bid to reach the semi-finals of the Olympic women's football tournament after they made the knockouts despite a points deduction over a spying scandal.
After a remarkable sequence of events, the eighth-ranked nation are through to the quarter-finals, and now face 2016 gold medallists Germany in Marseille on Saturday. "Honestly we are kind of like sisters. This group we have right now is special and we are having a lot of fun," said Swanson. "We've struggled to find our rhythm at times. Brazil, for example, really managed to stifle our attacks."Brazil were handicapped against Spain -- a 2-0 defeat for the South Americans -- by the sending-off of captain Marta, one of the greats of the women's game.
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