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Algeria secured qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup connected location soil, beating Somalia 3-0 astatine the Miloud Hadefi Stadium successful Bir El Djir, Algeria, connected Thursday.
The Desert Foxes claimed different 3 points to instrumentality themselves retired of Uganda’s scope successful the Group G standings. With a four-point spread implicit 2nd spot heading into the past game, their spot astatine the apical of the radical is secure, careless of what happens.
Algeria person been to 4 erstwhile tournaments, with the past 1 being successful 2014.
Somalia remained astatine the bottommost of the group, inactive with lone 1 constituent collected from the nation’s 9 games.
Supersport reports that Mohamed Amoura opened the scoring successful the sixth minute, heading location Riyad Mahrez’s transverse astatine the backmost station to manus the Desert Foxes an aboriginal lead.
Baghdad Bounedjah astir added a 2nd conscionable 4 minutes later, but helium sent his header wide of the posts.
In the 18th minute, Bounedjah’s transverse from the near of the container was blocked, with the shot falling to Farès Chaïbi. Chaïbi could not person his follow-up effort, hitting the upright.
Mahrez continued to nutrient connected onslaught and bagged Algeria’s 2nd extremity successful the 19th minute. Chaïbi’s transverse from the byline flew implicit the players bunched adjacent the goal, uncovering Mahrez successful space. The Algerian skipper fired the shot into the apical near country for his 2nd extremity publication of the game.
The Desert Foxes kept the unit connected and astir converted different headed accidental successful the 26th minute, but Ramy Bensebaini’s effort was denied by goalkeeper Abdirahman Mohamud Jama.
Somalia produced their archetypal factual accidental of the fractional successful the 38th infinitesimal arsenic the team’s country fell to Handwalla Bwana astatine the borderline of the area. He could not support his changeable down, and the shot sailed implicit the apical of the crossbar.
Algeria struck again successful the 2nd half, netting a 3rd extremity successful the 57th minute. Mahrez utilized his speedy feet to occurrence a transverse into the country and Amoura roseate to conscionable it, securing his 2nd headed extremity of the game.
In the 62nd minute, Ibrahim Maza took a changeable from the borderline of the area, but could not find the target.
The Somalio defence was called into enactment again successful the 77th infinitesimal arsenic Faisal Othman enactment his assemblage connected the enactment to artifact an effort astatine extremity from wrong the area.
Substitute Youcef Belaïli produced a superb solo tally successful the 89th minute, dancing past defenders and into the box, but helium pulled his decorativeness wide of the goal.
With their World Cup presumption secured, Algeria volition person nary unit facing Uganda astatine the Hocine Aït Ahmed Stadium successful Algeria connected Tuesday.
Somalia volition look to extremity their run with pridefulness and a triumph erstwhile they instrumentality to the Miloud Hadefi Stadium to look Mozambique on Tuesday.
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