{"id":2129,"date":"2026-07-01T19:28:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:28:49","slug":"belgium-v-senegal-comments-updates-goals-and-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/?p=2129","title":{"rendered":"Belgium v \u200b\u200bSenegal: comments, updates, goals and stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Belgium<\/a> will be hoping to silence critics at home and secure a place in the last 16 of the World Cup when they meet Senegal<\/a> tonight.<\/p>\n

Rudy Garcia’s side have been criticized for a pair of disappointing performances against Egypt and Iran before they secured their place in the knockout phase with a 5-1 win over New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Senegal will present a much tougher challenge than anything they have faced thus far.<\/p>\n

Pape Tia’s side also recorded a big 5-0 win over Iraq to reach a tough group that also included France and Norway. <\/p>\n

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Where to watch Belgium – Senegal: TV channel, live online broadcasts<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Belgium v \u200b\u200bSenegal match kicks off at 9pm UK time today. You can watch it next ITV1<\/a> and stream on ITVX.<\/p>\n

World Cup 2026: Belgium – Senegal statistics<\/span><\/h2>\n
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  • Belgium are the first team to top their group at the World Cup despite not winning either of their opening two matches since the USA in 2010<\/li>\n
  • They are unbeaten in 16 games in all competitions (W10) and earned their biggest win in a World Cup match with a 5-1 win over New Zealand in the third round, scoring more goals in that game than in their previous seven finals (4)<\/li>\n
  • Leandro Trossard scored twice against New Zealand and created 13 chances, the most by a player in a World Cup group stage since Miralem Pjanic for Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2014 (also 13).<\/li>\n
  • All 13 of those chances have been created from open play, the most by any player in a single World Cup group since Enzo Schiffa created 15 for Belgium in 1994<\/li>\n
  • Romelu Lukaku scored in the final stoppage time to set up Alexis Saelemaekers as the striker took his tally to six goals and eight assists (6 goals, 2 assists) at the World Cup, giving the 33-year-old the most goals and assists of any Belgium player in the finals since the record holder began.<\/li>\n
  • Against Iraq in the third round of the day, Senegal recorded the most attempts (28), shots on goal (12), most expected goals (3.01) and most box touches (51) in a World Cup match<\/li>\n
  • Senegal have scored 14 goals in three games (8 for, 6 against) and only Norway’s games (15) have seen more<\/li>\n
  • Ismail Sarr has directly scored four goals in this year’s tournament (3 goals, 1 assist), the most by a Senegalese player in a single tournament (Henri Camara scored four in 2002).<\/li>\n
  • In the group stage, Idriss Gueye made 39 line-breaking passes – the most of any Senegal player – and took the lead in line-breaking passes at his previous international tournament, with 100 at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations<\/li>\n
  • Senegal have lost their last two World Cup knockout matches without scoring – 1-0 against Turkey in the 2002 quarter-finals and 3-0 against England in the round of 16 four years ago, having previously beaten Sweden 2-1 in the round of 16 in 2002<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Belgium will be hoping to silence critics at home and secure a place in the last 16 of the World Cup when they meet Senegal tonight. Rudy Garcia’s side have been criticized for a pair of disappointing performances against Egypt and Iran before they secured their place in the knockout phase with a 5-1 win …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xrpfaucet.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}