2022 World Cup: Algeria inflicts terrible defeat on Djibouti
Algerian striker Islam Slimani, July 19, 2019. AP - Hassan Ammar
Text by: Nicolas Bamba Follow
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The Algerian African champions entered the qualifiers for the next World Cup, Thursday, September 2, with a clear victory with a terrible score of 8-0 against Djibouti.
The Fennecs lead Group A on goal difference against Burkina Faso, winner of Niger earlier (2-0).
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And 31. Algeria has chained a 31st consecutive game without defeat Thursday against Djibouti, and an 8th victory in a row. Djamel Belmadi and his men were ruthless with the 182nd nation in the Fifa rankings, in Blida at the Mustapha-Tchaker stadium. The meeting was one-sided and quickly turned in favor of the locals.
Islam Slimani did not need much time to open the scoring (5th). The Olympique Lyonnais striker could have made the break in the game and with a header, but Youssouf Batio Mohamed, the Djiboutian defender, prevented the ball from entering with a willing hand. He was logically expelled, and Slimani, on the penalty spot, added to the bill (25th). From then on, at 10 against 11, Djibouti collapsed. Ramy Bensebaini scored the goal 3-0 (26th), and Baghdad Bounedjah, on a new penalty, extinguished the little suspense that remained (40th).
Islam Slimani ended this meeting on a quadruple, with two new goals scored after the break (46th, 53rd).
With 36 goals, he is the new co-top scorer in the history of the Fennecs with Abdelhafid Tasfaout.
Riyad Mahrez (67th) and Ramiz Zerrouki (69th) also participated in the fireworks display.
Djibouti came close to suffering the worst defeat in its history.
This 8-0 hurts a lot, but in the archives, we find a 10-1 against Uganda in 2001 and a 9-0 against Rwanda in 2007.
بداية المشوار نحو قطر 2022.
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- FAF-Algerian Football Federation (@LesVerts) September 2, 2021
► To (re) read: 2022 World Cup: Africa qualifying schedule and results
Niger cracks in the last quarter of an hour against Burkina Faso
In the other match of this first day of Group A, the nets shook much less.
And it was not until the last quarter of an hour to see the meeting settle between Niger and Burkina Faso.
In Marrakech, the scene of this face-to-face encounter, the Burkinabè have long supported without succeeding in forcing the Nigerian lock.
When the experienced goalkeeper Kassaly Daouda was not enough, the bar came to his rescue as in the 55th.
The salvation of the Stallions came first from a fault in the area of Youssef Oumarou on Lassina Traoré. The young striker (20 years) of Shakhtar Donetsk did justice to himself by converting the penalty into a goal (76th). Taking advantage of a free space in the rearguard of Niger, Mohamed Konaté escaped and doubled the bet on a shot deflected by Ousmane Diabaté (79th).
Algeria leads Group A with 3 points and an already very positive goal difference, ahead of Burkina Faso, also 3 points.
Niger is third with zero points, the same total as fourth, Djibouti, which also has a very negative and crippling goal difference for the rest of the
2022 World Cup qualifiers
.
Next meetings: Djibouti-Niger in Rabat on September 6 and Burkina Faso-Algeria in Marrakech on September 7.
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