Erling Haaland’s second consecutive two-goal match led Norway into the round of 32 at the World Cup with a 3-2 victory against Senegal in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Monday (Jun 22)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Norway and France each have six points from two matches heading into their Group I finale on Friday in Foxborough, Mass. France lead on goal differential – plus five to plus four – meaning they need just a draw to take first place in the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senegal are on the verge of elimination entering their match against Iraq on Friday in Toronto, with both teams sitting on zero points following two losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After goals by substitute Marcus Holmgren Pedersen in the 43rd minute and Haaland in the 48th, Senegal’s Ismaila Sarr pulled one back in the 53rd before Haaland made it a two-goal lead again in the 58th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sarr caused a nervy finish by scoring in the third minute of second-half stoppage time with a strike from the middle of the box to make it 3-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haaland, who scored twice in his World Cup debut vs. Iraq in the opening match, made it 2-0 when Martin Odegaard slipped a pass through two defenders, and Haaland took a shot despite slipping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sarr held off two defenders to score from the centre of the box to make it 2-1, but Norway responded with pressure that created a turnover, and Patrick Berg spotted Haaland in front of the goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haaland took the hip-high service and still managed to get off a right-footed shot. He has 24 goals during a 12-match goal streak for Norway in competitive matches and 59 goals in 52 career international matches overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shortly after that, Senegal goalkeeper Edouard Mendy, who made three saves, left with an injury. Mory Diaw replaced him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Updated: Jun 23, 10.30am (SGT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Norwegians started with a bang but could not crack the scoresheet despite a sequence of four consecutive corner kicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, it took a spectacular reactionary save by Mendy to keep Norway at bay in the fourth minute. Julian Ryerson’s in-swinger from the left corner went to unmarked Kristoffer Ajer at the 6-yard box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ajer headed the ball down, and Mendy trapped it between his legs at the goal line and, as he was falling, somehow flicked the ball out of harm’s way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pedersen entered in the 12th minute for an injured Ryerson, and a blunder by Kalidou Koulibaly led to his goal. Koulibaly’s clearance of an Odegaard pass went directly to Pedersen, who unleashed a shot that went off Mendy’s left arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Erling Haaland’s second consecutive two-goal match led Norway into the round of 32 at the World Cup with a 3-2 victory against Senegal in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Monday (Jun 22) Norway and France each have six points from two matches heading into their Group I finale on Friday in Foxborough, Mass. France lead on goal differential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418077,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418076\/revisions\/418077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ranking<\/td> Player<\/td> Goals scored<\/td> Assists<\/td><\/tr> 1<\/td> Lionel Messi
Argentina<\/td>5<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> 2<\/td> Kylian Mbappe
France<\/td>4<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> 3<\/td> Erling Haaland
Norway<\/td>4<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> 4<\/td> Deniz Undav
Germany<\/td>3<\/td> 2<\/td><\/tr> 5<\/td> Jonathan David
Canada<\/td>3<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> 6<\/td> Crysencio Summerville
Netherlands<\/td>2<\/td> 1<\/td><\/tr> 7<\/td> Mikel Oyarzabal
Spain<\/td>2<\/td> 1<\/td><\/tr> 8<\/td> Maxi Araujo
Uruguay<\/td>2<\/td> 1<\/td><\/tr> 9<\/td> Ayase Ueda
Japan<\/td>2<\/td> 1<\/td><\/tr> 10<\/td> Cody Gakpo
Netherlands<\/td>2<\/td> 1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n