Group I kicks off with a real beauty with Norway vs Senegal potentially of the games of the second round of Group Stage matches. Norway had a good first up win, and even though some will claim 4-1 over Iraq isn’t that special, the goalscoring form of Erling Haaland as big a plus as the man himself is, very few teams at the World Cup have such a consistent goal scoring weapon. Senegal will right in the game at half time against France until the French stepped up a gear, and a loss to Norway here would see them at the mercy of their final game to make the knockout phase. A shame as they were one of the great African hopes, although the CAF teams are punching above their weight in general.
Norway vs Senegal Preview
STATS SUMMARY
RATINGS
The Gurgler’s in-house Ratings system chooses the winner. Using H2H history, World Cup performance history, World Cup qualifying, the last four years of international games, performance against the confederation, and current effort at this World Cup.
| Norway | 53.6% | Senegal | 46.4% |
Norway just in front of our 52.5% threshold for a draw.
BARELY INTERESTING STATS
Senegal have won the only game between these sides – in 2006.
Norway have only played one game v African nations at the World Cup, it ended 2-2 with Morocco in 1998.
Senegal have lost their last three games to European nations at the World Cup. They have a respectable W3 D1 L4 record overall.
Norway’s record overall v African teams is W9 D7 L2.
Norway scored their four goals from 12 shots and five on target.
Senegal had the equal second lowest number of shots in the first round of games with 6 shots.
MATCH PREDICTION
Norway 3 Senegal 1
