The slump continues for the Canadian women's soccer team.

Ninth-ranked Canada fell to its fourth straight defeat Saturday, blanked 3-0 by Japan in a women's soccer friendly.

Momoko Tanikawa, Mina Tanaka and Aoba Fujino scored for eighth-ranked Japan, which controlled play at the 20,000-capacity Peace Stadium in Nagasaki. Canada was outplayed for much of the game and it was one-way traffic for long stretches.

"We're in a really difficult stage right now. There's no shying away from that," said Canada assistant coach Natalie Henderson, who is running the team with head coach Casey Stoney back in England with her ailing mother. "We certainly aren't a team that likes losing or wants to continue this run. We want to fix things and we're trying to fix things.

"I think there's some positives

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