{"id":1517,"date":"2025-11-15T09:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/FOOTBALL\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:16:16","slug":"england-v-senegal-friendly-in-nottingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/FOOTBALL\/2025\/11\/england-v-senegal-friendly-in-nottingham\/","title":{"rendered":"England v Senegal – Friendly in Nottingham"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An excuse to meet up with the Leicester and Derby lads for a nice spot of lunch. There’s a train back as far as Sheffield after 11pm so some of us can get partially home after the game…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • On 10th June 2025, England played Senegal in a friendly at The City Ground in Nottingham.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
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    Crowd<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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    • 26,322 fans turned up.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • It was the first time England\u2019s men played at the City Ground since 1941.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      • England: Harry Kane (7\u2032)  <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Senegal:
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        • Isma\u00efla Sarr (40\u2032)  <\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Habib Diarra (62\u2032)  <\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Cheikh Sabaly (90+3\u2032)  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
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          Why It Was Big<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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          • This was the first-ever win by an African team against England.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • England were using this as prep for the 2026 World Cup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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            An excuse to meet up with the Leicester and Derby lads for a nice spot of lunch. There’s a train back as far as Sheffield after 11pm so some of us can get partially home after the game… Quick Recap Crowd Goals Why It Was Big<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1082,"url":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/FOOTBALL\/2022\/11\/england-v-wales-a-much-better-2nd-half\/","url_meta":{"origin":1517,"position":0},"title":"England v Wales - a much better 2nd half","date":"30 November 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The negative Maguire to Stones to Pickford repeat story finally ended in the second half with Rashford and Foden finally getting on the front foot and then joined by Grealish and Wilson later on we actually showed some attacking strength.A 3-0 win, top the group, 9 goals scored and onwards\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/FOOTBALL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/6EEB48D8-94E2-452F-8978-0B5A7A4B273E.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":393,"url":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/FOOTBALL\/2016\/06\/england-win\/","url_meta":{"origin":1517,"position":1},"title":"England Win!","date":"17 June 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"After the misery of many previous tournaments, this was looking the same way until the Sturridge last gasp winner! 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