Beaten in the last seconds by Cameroon last Tuesday in Blida (1-2, ap), Algeria gave up participating in the 2022 World Cup and experienced enormous disappointment. Asked regarding the state of mind of his winger Riyad Mahrez, ” devastated “Following this failure, the Manchester City coach, Pep Guardiola, more generally returned to the elimination of the Fennecs.
«Riyad Mahrez is sad because he will not go to the World Cup with Algeria. You score in the 118th minute, then, in the 124the, you concede a goal and you are eliminated. There is no explanation for that. It’s soccer“, commented the Catalan in a press conference. “It’s emotions, it’s a lot of things, there’s no downtime like in basketball, or in tennis where you can sit and think following two sets. It’s football, how many times you outperform your opponent and you lose!»
Lack of efficiency, contentious arbitration decisions, loss of concentration following the equalizer of Ahmed Touba: the Algerians will have a lot of regrets…