{"id":916988,"date":"2022-01-17T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T10:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/17\/gun-10-alg-why-algerias-back-clash-in-the-afcon-should-serve-a-lesson-to-other-top-nations\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T10:05:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T10:05:56","slug":"gun-10-alg-why-algerias-back-clash-in-the-afcon-should-serve-a-lesson-to-other-top-nations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/17\/gun-10-alg-why-algerias-back-clash-in-the-afcon-should-serve-a-lesson-to-other-top-nations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GUN 1:0 ALG: Why Algeria&#8217;s Back Clash In The AFCON Should Serve A Lesson To Other Top Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1bd2da4263ff40869957894da884cf1c\"\/>Defending African Cup Of Nations Champions Algeria has failed to win any of their last two matches of the competition which is very worrying and disappointing for a country of their high standards. The Algerian National Team suffered a disappointing 1-0 defeat to Equatorial Guinea in today&#8217;s match as they presently sit in the last position on the Group E table with just a single point. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/80323d4b32b040bbadd3fc4f2edfa971\"\/>With the current look of things, the Desert Warriors might not qualify for the next round of the tournament following their bad run of performances in the AFCON this year. Algeria&#8217;s rise and fall in the African Cup Of Nations should also serve as a lesson to other top nations in the competition aiming for the prestigious title this year. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/860cef35f02641a8937b6306bd41a34d\"\/>Heading into this competition, Algeria were seen as a top favourite to win the trophy because of the top quality players they possessed. As the competition began, teams like Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea become a thorn in the flesh of Algeria as they made weren&#8217;t beaten by the Desert Warriors.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8d170619aafd4ee2a2911b506362a986\"\/>This should be a lesson to other top African nations in the competition that no country is weak and should be underestimated because of their lack of well-known quality players. Every match in the competition should be seen as a final and every country should be seen as a tough and worthy opponent so therefore, this is no room for teams being underestimated.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e9f96712ddd1425b882cd82a0dccd36f\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your take on this? Kindly drop your comments below. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Godsports (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAFCON<br \/>\nAfrican Cup Of Nations<br \/>\nAlgeria<br \/>\nDesert Warriors<br \/>\nEquatorial Guinea<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending African Cup Of Nations Champions Algeria has failed to win any of their last two matches of the competition which is very worrying and disappointing for a country of their high standards. The Algerian National Team suffered a disappointing 1-0 defeat to Equatorial Guinea in today&#8217;s match as they presently sit in the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}