ALGERIA – CAMEROON FOOTBALL. The Algerian Football Federation announced on Wednesday April 6 that Fifa would study the complaint made by the latter after the third round of qualifying for the World Cup.
And if. Following the elimination of Algeria by Cameroon in the third round of qualifying for the World Cup, the Federation announced that it had filed an appeal with Fifa to ask to replay the match because of “arbitration scandalous” by the Gambian Bakary Gassama. At the end of the meeting, Djamel Belmadi had pointed the finger at the arbitration. “I say it today without fear: these referees do not respect our country, dropped the North African coach. They come here, see our work and do not respect us (…) In the past two years, I have not seen only one referee who is not aggressive when you come and talk to him. I’m not looking for excuses, these are facts.”
Despite this appeal, the president of the Algerian football federation had estimated that “the chances of replaying the match are low” and that he “does not want to sell illusions” to Algerian supporters. But this Wednesday, April 6, the Algerian Football Federation informs this Wednesday that the complaint she presented to FIFA “will be submitted to the Disciplinary Committee for examination and decision on April 21, 2022”.
The summary of Algeria – Cameroon
The reigning African champions will not be in Qatar to compete in the next World Cup. And yet, this ticket for the next World Cup seemed to be acquired when Ahmed Touba finally cheated on an almost impassable André Onana on Tuesday, March 29. The Ajax Amsterdam goalkeeper has long disgusted the Algerian players who have looked for the fault and who have finally found it in an extension with an incredible outcome. But before, there had been cruel regulation time for the Fennecs. Cruel because the men of Djamel Belmadi have returned to this Algeria – Cameroon. Confident after their success in the first leg in Cameroon (1-0), Riyad Mahrez and his teammates directly put forward their intentions, those of attacking. But they were not rewarded. After a few harmless attempts on Onana’s cages, it’s the opposing goalkeeper Raïs Mbolhi who will stand out in the worst possible way. Indeed, the Algeria goalkeeper accidentally hit his teammate Aissa Mandi following a corner and released the ball, giving former Parisian Choupo-Moting the opportunity to come and put his selection back up to the Fennecs on the all of the two confrontations (22nd). Then follows an Algerian domination over almost the entire game. Onana then goes into wall mode and lets nothing pass. Mbolhi also imitates him in the 69th minute with an exceptional double parry. But little by little, the Algerian goalkeeper leaves the star to that of Cameroon. André Onana disgusts Mahrez, Bennacer or Slimani with successive parades. And even when he was beaten by that header from Slimani in the 98th minute, the VAR intervened and canceled the goal for a handball from the former Monegasque. The Algerian goal will only come in the second period of extra time (118th) through Ahmed Touba who capsized the boiling Mustapha-Tchaker stadium in Blida but for only a few minutes. Indeed, Algeria thought they could hold their ticket thanks to this goal but it was without counting on the Lyonnais Karl Toko-Ekambi who, following a subtle deviation from Ngadeu, comes to punish the Fennecs for a lack of lucidity marking in the last seconds of the meeting (120th + 4). The Blida stadium had never seen a defeat for Algeria. This Tuesday, March 29, the supporters present in the enclosure therefore experienced the first and certainly the worst of the selection of Djamel Belmadi who will be deprived of the 2022 World Cup in favor of the Cameroonians of Rigobert Song.