Norway vs Senegal live updates: Pedersen scores opening goal in World Cup 2026 game


45+4′ Norway 1-0 Senegal

What is happening here?! It’s more horrendous defending from Senegal.

Goalkeeper Edouard Mendy should clear but dilly-dallies and dithers, unsure of what to do with the ball as Erling Haaland closes him down, and in the end can only poke it a tiny distance.

Haaland picks it up, tries to put it into an empty net from a tight angle as Mendy scrambles to put him off, but he hits the post before falling to his knees and pounding the ground in despair.

Then Norway bring it forward down the left, stand it up to the back post and Haaland rises like a salmon, header directed to the bottom-right corner…

But this time Mendy plunges to his left to just about scoop it off the goal line!

How are Norway not two up?!

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