{"id":14663,"date":"2024-01-16T07:12:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T07:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=14663"},"modified":"2024-01-16T07:12:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T07:12:20","slug":"algeria-1-1-angola-mabululu-penalty-frustrates-2019-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/16\/algeria-1-1-angola-mabululu-penalty-frustrates-2019-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria 1-1 Angola: Mabululu penalty frustrates 2019 winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>Algeria endured more Africa Cup of Nations frustration as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Angola in their opening match in Bouake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>Baghdad Bounedjah gave the Algerians the lead, but a second-half equaliser from Mabululu, who converted the rebound after his penalty hit the bar, salvaged a point for Angola in the Group D clash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>The Algerians are looking to avoid a similar fate to 2022 when they entered as defending champions but crashed out in the group stages after failing to win a game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>They made a positive start when Bounedjah latched on to a ball over the top and fired home with a clinical finish to put his side in front after just 18 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>And it could have been even better for the favourites when Bounedjah found the net with a spectacular overhead kick shortly afterwards, only for the goal to be disallowed for offside after a VAR review.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>Algeria became increasingly frustrated as they failed to create further chances to trouble the Angolans, who went into the match on the back of four consecutive goalless draws.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>Angola drew level in the 65th minute when Mabululu was brought down by Nabil Bentaleb in the box before stepping up to bundle the ball home after his initial spot-kick hit the underside of the bar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>It took a late spell of pressure for the Algerians to really test the Angola rearguard, with Riyad Mahrez in particular proving a constant threat at set-plays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wh paragraph\">\n<p>But, after surviving a succession of corners in injury-time, the 117th-ranked Angolans clung on for a point to continue Algeria\u2019s recent struggles in the competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria endured more Africa Cup of Nations frustration as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Angola in their opening match in Bouake. Baghdad Bounedjah gave the Algerians the lead, but a second-half equaliser from Mabululu, who converted the rebound after his penalty hit the bar, salvaged a point for Angola in the Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":14664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-14663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afcon-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14665,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663\/revisions\/14665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}