Norway and Senegal volition spell caput to caput astatine New York New Jersey Stadium successful East Rutherford connected Tuesday, with some nations anxious to unafraid their spot successful the past 32 of the 2026 World Cup.
Stale Solbakken’s broadside arrived astatine the tourney successful good form, thrashing Iraq 4-1 connected matchday 1 with a Eling Haaland brace, portion Senegal’s Lions of Teranga showed plentifulness of attacking intent against France earlier falling to a 3-1 defeat.
Here, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look astatine the head-to-head grounds and erstwhile meetings betwixt the 2 sides.
Head-to-head record
Previous meetings: 1
Norway wins: 0
Draws: 0
Senegal wins: 1
When Norway and Senegal conscionable astatine the 2026 World Cup, it volition correspond lone the 2nd elder men’s planetary brushwood betwixt the 2 nations and their first-ever gathering successful a competitory fixture.
The sole erstwhile head-to-head dates backmost to March 2006, erstwhile Senegal hosted a Norway broadside featuring the likes of John Arne Riise and Brede Hangeland for a affable connected location soil.
The Lions of Teranga ran retired 2-1 winners connected that occasion, with Moussa Ndiaye and Babacar M’Baye Gueye connected people for the hosts, portion Norway’s consolation was not capable to salvage a result.
Twenty years on, Tuesday’s Group I clash astatine MetLife Stadium volition connection Stale Solbakken’s men their archetypal accidental to assertion a triumph implicit Senegal astatine immoderate level, arsenic they look to physique connected an emphatic opening triumph against Iraq.
Previous meeting
Mar 1, 2006: Senegal 2-1 Norway (International Friendly)
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