Led by record goalscorer Harry Kane, England have easily reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup and are now looking forward to a showdown with world champions France. Captain Kane’s team beat African champions Senegal 3-0 (2-0) in Al-Khour on Sunday evening and remain unbeaten in this tournament. Veteran Jordan Henderson (38′), Kane (45′ + 3′) and Bukayo Saka (57′) scored for head coach Gareth Southgate’s team. In front of a crowd of 65,985, it was Kane’s eleventh goal in a major tournament, surpassing Gary Lineker as England’s top scorer.
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The “Three Lions” are the only European team that reached at least the quarter-finals at the 2018 World Cup, Euro 2021 and World Cup 2022 – in the last two tournaments they also made it into the semi-finals. Against the French around superstar Kylian Mbappé, however, a much more difficult task awaits the English, in which Dortmund’s Jude Bellingham stood out in the Al-Bait Stadium north of Doha. England went on to remain unbeaten in their eighth World Cup match against African sides and kept their first three clean sheets in 20 years.
Senegal, as the penultimate African representative, kept up well for 40 minutes, but looked broken after the quick brace just before half-time. Unlike at the 2002 World Cup, this time they did not make it into the round of eight, which from an African perspective only Morocco can now do against Spain on Tuesday.
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