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England ends Senegal’s World Cup dream
Three targets was all England wanted to eradicate Senegal within the spherical of 16 encounter on the Al Bayt Stadium.
It was a really straight ahead affair as weakened Senegal have been picked aside because of targets from Jordan Henderson, Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka.
Senegal misplaced the service of Idrissa Gueye (gathered yellow) and Cheikhou Konate (Harm) in central Midfield. The pairing of Nampalys Mendy and Pathe Cisse struggled to comprise the English Midfield.
However they began the primary half brightly, going toe to toe with England, additionally they created the primary actual hazard when Boulaye Dia’s purpose certain effort was overwhelmed away by Pickford.
One other superb alternative fell to the trail of Ismaila Sarr however the winger despatched his shot over the crossbar, Senegal even had a penalty declare for a handball, however VAR disagreed.
England solely wanted a purpose to take management of the encounter and so they received it by means of essentially the most unlikely supply.
Jordan Henderson reacted faster than Edouard Mendy to a free ball in the midst of the field and angled his shot previous the goalkeeper, they went on to strengthen their declare, when Harry Kane blasted a robust shot previous Mendy to provide England a two-goal benefit heading into the break.
With two purpose forward England performed significantly better within the second half and picked out the Senegalese with ease, and the third purpose quickly adopted as Phil Foden deliciously picked out Bukayo Saka whose first time effort was sufficient to beat a helpless Mendy and e book England’s ticket towards France within the Quarter finals levels.
The defeat means Africa has just one workforce (Morocco) left within the event.
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