Minute-by-minute report: Victory is surely essential for either of these teams to have hopes of progress from a tough Pool B. Join Niall McVeigh for updates
For both these sides, the future hasn’t been what they hoped. Canada reached the World Cup quarter-finals in 1991, and punched above their weight for the rest of the decade. As their era ended, Italy’s began. The azzurri earned a place in the Six Nations, and two World Cup wins in 2003 continued the upward trajectory.
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