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Senegal midfielder Pape Gueye starts in place of Lamine Camara in this morning’s World Cup Round of 32 match against Belgium, kicking off at 6am (AEST) in Seattle.
Gueye netted two goals in the 5-0 win over Iraq in the group stage.
Forward Iliman Ndiaye joins Ismaila Sarr and Sadio Mane in Senegal’s front line, with Ibrahim Mbaye on the bench. While captain Kalidou Koulibaly is left out of the starting lineup.
Belgium, meanwhile, stayed with their starting lineup from their last game, a 5-1 win over New Zealand.
Atlanta: Harry Kane scored twice in the final 15 minutes to see England through to the World Cup round of 16 as they left it late to fight back and overcome a dogged Democratic Republic of Congo 2-1 on Wednesday.
Kane produced another match-winning performance for his country as the captain equalised with a 75th-minute header before thrashing home a stunning winner four minutes from time after England had trailed for more than an hour of an absorbing match.
Brian Cipenga gave the Congolese a shock seventh-minute lead before Kane delivered his heroics to save his team from an ignominious defeat.
England, who enjoyed overwhelming support in the 68,239-strong crowd, needed all the patience and perseverance they could muster to avoid going down in what would have been one of the tournament’s biggest upsets and now head to Mexico City to play co-hosts Mexico on Sunday.
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And what a start to today’s action – a Harry Kane masterclass has saved England embarrassment as the Three Lions captain scored twice as his side came from a goal down to defeat Democratic Republic of Congo 2-1 in their round of 32 clash in Atlanta.
DR Congo’s Brian Cipenga scored in the 7th minute, and there were some anxious moments where the Africans blew a first-half chance to go 2-0, and VAR rejected England’s pleas for a penalty until Kane equalised in the 75th minute before scoring the winner 11 minutes later.
England now plays Mexico at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on Monday morning (AEST).
The next match today is Belgium versus Senegal, kicking off at 6am (AEST), and then co-hosts the US meet Bosnia-Herzegovina – in the San Francisco Bay Area at 10am.
