{"id":388961,"date":"2025-11-19T02:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388961\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:49:23","slug":"how-senne-lammens-fared-on-his-senior-belgium-international-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388961\/","title":{"rendered":"How Senne Lammens fared on his senior Belgium international debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Senne Lammens became a senior Belgian international on Tuesday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a> goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/tag\/senne-lammens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senne Lammens<\/a> reached a new milestone on Tuesday night by making his debut for the Belgium national team.<\/p>\n<p>With Real Madrid stopper Thibaut Courtois ruled out with injury, Lammens was called into the starting line-up as Belgium beat Liechtenstein 7-0 to secure their place at the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mail.png\" alt=\"mail icon\"\/>Join our newsletter for news &amp; smart analysis. <\/p>\n<p>Lammens recently became United\u2019s first-choice goalkeeper, keeping a clean sheet in his first appearance with the Red Devils, recording a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/match-coverage\/five-things-learned-as-manchester-united-beat-sunderland-2-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2-0 victory over Sunderland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in his first appearance for Belgium, Lammens has kept another clean sheet \u2013 and it stands him in good stead to earn a spot in Rudi Garcia\u2019s World Cup squad next summer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2246817532-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Senne Lammens arrives to face Kazakhstan\" class=\"wp-image-309914\" \/>Photo by Denis Tyrin \u2013 UEFA\/UEFA via Getty ImagesSenne Lammens stats vs Liechtenstein<\/p>\n<p>It was a night to remember for Lammens.<\/p>\n<p>Liechtenstein went into the game after failing to score in any of their previous qualifiers, and they were unable to find a way past Lammens despite having one shot on target.<\/p>\n<p>       Who should start as striker for Man Utd with Benjamin Sesko injured?     <\/p>\n<p>That meant it was a quiet night for Lammens, who completed 89% of his passes.<\/p>\n<p>Lammens touched the ball 12 times and made five recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was a memorable night for Lammens as he made his Belgium debut, the 23-year-old knows that bigger challenges await when he next represents United and his country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senne Lammens became a senior Belgian international on Tuesday night. Manchester United goalkeeper Senne Lammens reached a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[51093,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-388961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-senne-lammens","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115574090796061232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}