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VANCOUVER – Heed the message now Canadian soccer fans: Don’t put a lot of stock in Canada’s pre-World Cup 1-0 win over England in Hamilton, Ont., a month ago.

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Sure Canada has got a chance, a decent one in fact, to secure a victory in Saturday’s enticing quarter-final matchup at BC Place. But don’t look at that result from Hamilton and assume it portends a Canadian triumph and a place in the semifinals.

It was No. 6-ranked England, after all, who beat No. 8-ranked Canada 1-0 back in March in the final of the Cyprus Cup.

The English didn’t show a lot in the game in Hamilton and head coach Mark Sampson was clearly using it to experiment with his lineup ahead of group stage play. It will be a far different English side on Saturday, one with abundant skill, the ability to play it physical and, judging by the way they dominated the second half of Monday’s 2-1 knockout stage win over Norway, a superior level of fitness.