{"id":227480,"date":"2025-10-20T18:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227480\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:33:06","slug":"senne-lammens-hungry-for-more-after-strong-start-for-man-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227480\/","title":{"rendered":"Senne Lammens hungry for more after strong start for Man United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 20, 2025, 07:12 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"83b92ff7-5bb8-3a8e-8f0d-42e292cba669\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/301425\/senne-lammens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senne Lammens&#8217;<\/a> start to his <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ebc2fd0-35d3-733b-5666-b75035a3bce9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=360\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> career could hardly have gone any better, but the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4084f797-3877-2af0-b70f-570d25a1a141\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=459\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belgium<\/a> star is not getting carried away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/46126911\/goalkeeper-senne-lammens-joins-man-united-antwerp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Having completed an \u20ac21 million ($27m) deadline-day move<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/team\/_\/id\/17544\/antwerp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Royal Antwerp<\/a>, he spent three matches on the bench before making his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/report\/_\/gameId\/740663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">debut in the win<\/a> over <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"479e0b8f-fbeb-4a27-ce19-2c6ab31ac811\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=366\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunderland<\/a> immediately before the international break.<\/p>\n<p>The Stretford End sang &#8220;Are you Schmeichel in disguise?&#8221; after the 23-year-old kept a clean sheet and Lammens followed it up by helping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/report\/_\/gameId\/740670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United win 2-1<\/a> against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> on Sunday, their first victory at Anfield in almost 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how it felt being thrust into the spotlight from the relative obscurity of the Belgian league, Lammens said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a lot. I try to keep my best friends and family close and the rest is a bit of outside noise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment it is going good so it is all praise, but I am realistic to know if it goes not so good it will be all bad comments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a really good feeling when you get the praise and also with the wins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Senne Lammens made several good saves for Man United against Liverpool.\u00a0Robbie Jay Barratt &#8211; AMA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/46649968\/manchester-united-statement-premier-league-win-anfield-plunges-liverpool-crises\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The win at Anfield<\/a> was the first time since Ruben Amorim took over last November that United have won back-to-back league matches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve tasted it and we want more. This is not the end station, we just have to keep going,&#8221; Lammens said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46649968\/manchester-united-statement-premier-league-win-anfield-plunges-liverpool-crises\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man United&#8217;s statement win at Anfield plunges Liverpool into crisis<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46650087\/fernandes-frustrated-anfield-helped-manchester-united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bruno Fernandes: Frustrated Anfield crowd helped Man United<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46650298\/liverpool-coach-slot-challenge-end-losing-streak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Slot admits &#8216;challenge&#8217; to end Liverpool&#8217;s losing run<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was 10 seasons ago we won here, so that&#8217;s kind of special. Two in a row is also something we have been looking forward to to get the momentum going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a big part of what the coach has been telling us this season &#8212; get momentum going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There have been some disappointments this season where we wanted to take momentum and we couldn&#8217;t, but this could be the start of some good momentum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lammens has not had a lot of time to work with Amorim but he praised the Portuguese for shielding the players from criticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the coach he gets a lot of pressure, you can feel it from the outside, you can read it and hear it,&#8221; Lammens said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I think he does his best and he tries to keep the pressure on him and not on the team, he takes the pressure off us and that&#8217;s what a lot of great managers do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 20, 2025, 07:12 AM ET Senne Lammens&#8217; start to his Manchester United career could hardly have gone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-227480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}