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Captain of Algeria, who started CAN 2025 against Sudan Wednesday, Riyad Mahrez is not yet considered an essential player.
D-1 for Algeria. While major nations like Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Tunisia will have already made their debut in this 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, the Fennecs will only launch their competition on Wednesday afternoon against Sudan (at 4 p.m.), near Rabat. Exert some pressure on the shoulder.
The Greens are not necessarily among the favorites but, as often, they will be expected around the corner. Like the captain, and Riyad Mahrez increasingly contested in his country. Is the experience of Al-Ahli (34 years) still a player capable of winning the Algerian selection in a competition of this magnitude?
Specialist in African (Site notre bureau spécialisé), major reporter for the newspaper
The TeamHervé Penot is now one of the first to join the old man from Manchester City. “I’m talking about the debates on Mahrez, but there is also a lot of experience and a lot of pleasure in the matches, like in the 65th… (…) It’s still important”he confides to our colleagues at
DZ(Site notre blog d’information).
Riyad Mahrez, “he has the aura of flashes but…”
A message from Claude Leroy. For the previous selection of Cameroon, Senegal and DR Congo in particular, the former English champion with Leicester no longer has much choice to bring to the team led by Vladimir Petkovic.
“(Ibrahim) Maza, (Anis) Hadj Moussa… Me, I think more of the young people than of Mahrez”balances the former French coach (77 years old), still on DZ(Site notre blog d’information).
“If you have the aura of flashes, you will perhaps not have to think that Algeria must count on him to take them very far in this competition. The will be able to provide services, but I think that this CAN will be a bit like the twilight of the old people. For certain important players of certain teams like (Sadio) Mané, Mahrez or (Mohamed) Salah, there is no thought that they will be decisive. »