2024-01-20 19:34:48
Transparent against Burkina Faso (2-2), this Saturday January 20 in Bouaké (Ivory Coast), striker Riyad Mahrez is under fire from criticism in Algeria. Coach Djamel Belmadi defended his star in a post-match press conference. “I don’t like the idea of shooting a player like that”replied the technician to a journalist describing the player as “ghostly”at a press conference.
“No one plays on status in my house”
“This is the question many would like to asklaunched Belmadi, offensively. Riyad is a leader, he has proven himself recently, no one is playing for status at home, I know we will still need him in this tournament.”
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Regarding the equalizer snatched in added time by Baghdad Bounedjah, author of a double, Djamel Belmadi considered this point won “in pain, suffering, but that’s how we achieved our successes in the past.”
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“We were never given anything on a platter, everything we got we got ourselves”concluded the African champion coach at the head of Algeria in 2019.
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