{"id":16176,"date":"2024-01-24T09:48:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T09:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=16176"},"modified":"2024-01-24T09:48:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T09:48:46","slug":"mauritania-knocks-algeria-out-of-2023-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/24\/mauritania-knocks-algeria-out-of-2023-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritania Knocks Algeria Out Of 2023 AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-unskk-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-unskk-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col pb-9 text-sm\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-22\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group final-completion\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)] agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"dcaa39de-3d9c-40ca-a371-f431c702436a\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>In a surprising turn of events, Djamel Belmadi&#8217;s Algeria faced a stunning defeat against Mauritania in the AFCON, falling short of a guaranteed progression to the last 16. Despite having multiple chances to open the scoring early on, Algeria couldn&#8217;t find the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Mauritania, growing into the game, took a shock lead through Dellahi after a blocked shot fell his way. Leading at halftime, Amir Abdou&#8217;s side aimed for their first-ever AFCON victory, positioning themselves for qualification as one of the best third-placed finishers.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria, sensing the urgency, introduced Riyad Mahrez in the second half but found themselves close to a 2-0 deficit. The Greens, desperate for a turnaround, faced a resilient Mauritania defense. Despite late offensive efforts from Algeria, including saves by Mauritanian goalkeeper Babacar Niasse, Mauritania secured a fairytale victory \u2013 their first-ever against Algeria. This result marks Algeria&#8217;s failure to qualify for the knockout stages for the second consecutive tournament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising turn of events, Djamel Belmadi&#8217;s Algeria faced a stunning defeat against Mauritania in the AFCON, falling short of a guaranteed progression to the last 16. Despite having multiple chances to open the scoring early on, Algeria couldn&#8217;t find the back of the net. Mauritania, growing into the game, took a shock lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":16182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16191,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176\/revisions\/16191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}