Take an option in Gambia to go to Chan! (video)

“We are going to face a team from Central Africa for the first time, we already have an idea on this Gambian selection. I dispatched Mesbah to view this team during its confrontation with Senegal. It is difficult to find images of a local team. The Gambia deserves respect, and its local championship has been suspended just to allow the local selection to qualify, and that is all to their honor”said Bougherra, at the press conference held in the Nelson-Mandela stadium room in Baraki.

Finalist of the previous edition organized in 2023 at home and won by Senegal (0-0, 4-5, at TAB), Algeria will have to face a Gambian team who hopes to create the feat and pass the pitfall of “Greens”.

“The preparation took place in excellent conditions, the players are aware of the mission that awaits them. Our goal is to return with a good result of Bakau, to approach the return match with serenity. In a personal register, I am ready and I remain at the disposal of the coach, if I will play, I will give the best of myself”,

said the playmaker Ibrahim Dib.

In terms of the workforce, the Algerian selection will be deprived of the services of three players: midfielder Mohamed Benkhemassa (MCA) and defender Imad-Eddine Azzi (USMA), injury packages, while the left winger Abderrahmane Meziane (CRB) did not make the trip to Banjul for “family reasons”, and will be available for the second round.

For its part, the Gambia, qualified for the dams at the expense of Gabon (go: 1-1, return: 1-1, to the tab: 5-3), carried out two courses at the National Football Technical Center (NTTC) in Old Yundum, to prepare this double confrontation against Algeria.

The players of the coach Alhagie Sarr, intend to take advantage of the advantages of the field and the public, to ensure a positive service at home, just to make their chances of the return.

In the event of qualification, the national team will be paid in the final phase in group C, in the company of Uganda, Niger, Guinea, and the other qualified in the second dam (South Africa or Malawi).

The final tournament will be played from August 2 to 30 in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, we recall.

DZfoot