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France and Canada played each other nine times since 2012. Three of those were official competitions. France won 63-59 (31-30) at the World Championship 2014 in the group, but Canada won the playoff match for places fifth to eighth, 55-40, 37-16 after the first half. They faced each other at the London Olympics, too, and France won 64-60 (28-25). They played two matches this summer. Canada won in June in France 66-52 (29-28). France had 1/13 three-pointers then, Yacoubou was missing, but the point guard Dumerc was there. She hit 16 points, but is now injured and not playing in Rio. The second match was at a US tournament not long before the Olympic Games. Canada were better again, 71-63 (33-31). In matches between 2012 and 2015, France won three times, but it never went over 107. In 2012 OG qualifiers, France won 56-47. In Rio, France hit 32 points against Japan in the first half, 35 against Brazil, 29 against Australia, 34 against Belarus and 22 against Turkey. Those three can't be compared to Canada defensively. Canada failed in the first half against defensively oriented Serbia, allowing 40, but looked much better defensively in other duels. They hit 36 against USA, 26 China, 24 Senegal and 33 against Spain. This match is really important, the French struggle against Canada regularly and France team under in the first half sounds like the best option, as well as match total under, and first half under.