INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY : ENGLAND VS SENEGAL – 10/06/2025 (PHOTO – HARRY KANE CELEBRATES)

IT WAS HARRY KANE WHO KICKED OFF PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY AT JUST 7 MINS. INTO THE MATCH AGAINST SENEGAL AFTER SOME COMPLICATED BACK AND FORTH, WHICH FOUND KANE IN EXACTLY THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME TO NET THE FIRST BALL, MAKING HIM THE FIRST PLAYER TO SCORE IN EACH OF THE MANAGER’S FIRST 4 GAMES IN CHARGE OF ENGLAND!  ENGLAND MADE 556 PASSES WITH A 91% PASS ACCURACY, (AND HAD 61% POSSESSION), 5 CORNERS, AND 8 SHOTS WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A GOAL FROM JUDE BELLINGHAM (WHICH MANY THOUGHT WAS A CRACKER, BUT VAR THOUGHT DIFFERENTLY😒), AND A SUPERB ATTEMPT FROM SAKA, BUT FOR WHICH EDOUARD MENDY WAS READY-AND-A-WAITING, AND A SKILFUL FLICK FROM EZE TO SET UP GIBBS-WHITE, (FOR WHICH MENDY WAS ALSO WAITING!) SENEGAL MADE 355 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY, PLUS 3 CORNERS, AND HAD 11 SHOTS WITH 9 ON TARGET,  INCLUDING GREAT GOALS FROM ISMAILA SARR AT 40 MINS., HABIB DIARRA AT 62 MINS., AND A CHEEKY LATE FINISHER FROM CHEIKH SABALY AT 90 +3 MINS, SO THE MATCH CULMINATED IN A 3 – 1 WIN TO SENEGAL, AND A BIT OF AN EYE-OPENER AS TO THE GREAT FORM OF THIS SENEGALESE TEAM (WHO HAVE NOW WON 14 AND DRAWN 5 OUT OF ALL THE MATCHES THEY HAVE PLAYED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2024!) 

INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY : ENGLAND VS SENEGAL – 10/06/2025

THOMAS TUCHEL SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH

BY AMANDA WATERS