After facing opponents ranked 50th or worse at the CONCACAF W Gold Cup, Olympic champion Canada renews its rivalry with the second-ranked U.S.
on Wednesday in San Diego in the tournament semifinal. "You have to respect, obviously, the quality that they've got," said Canada coach Bev Priestman. "And it's the test that we need. "You think where we want to be July 25th (the start of the women's football tournament at the Paris Olympics), it's going to take these tests along the way like we've had with Brazil and other top nations that really stretched us.
We want to be stretched. These are the games you live for. As a coach, as a player. And it'll be an exciting one." While the 10th-ranked Canadians dispatched the Americans 1-0 in the Tokyo Olympic semifinal in August 2021, their career record against the U.S.
is 4-53-7. Still the 18 meetings since 2011 — during which Canada has gone 1-14-3 — have featured three ties, six one-goal wins for the U.S.