Algeria thought of validating its ticket for the 2026 World Cup this Monday, but mathematical calculations still postpone the deadline.
For a while, we thought that Algeria would hold its ticket for the 2026 World Cup this Monday. The calculations were there,
The scenarios too: a victory against Guinea at 6 p.m., On neutral field in Morocco, could be enough. But the Fennecs will still have to wait before officially confirming their return to the largest international competition, twelve years after their last participation.
Algeria is not there yet!
In reality, the fate of the Greens did not depend only on them. To seal the qualification from this 8th day, the other two group meetings also had to end up on zero results. However, Mozambique beat Botswana in the afternoon (2-0), reducing the gap at the top of the ranking. In the best of cases, Algeria will be six points two days before the end, a comfortable but insufficient mattress to mathematically validate the ticket.
The figures speak for themselves: with six victories in seven games, Algeria packed in the lead, carried by a goal-awning of +12, much higher than that of its pursuers. However, the Mozambican victory maintains a semblance of suspense. The Greens will have to wait until October to, perhaps, celebrate their return to the World Cup. They will then face Somalia and then, at home, Mozambique in a duel which could seal the case definitively.
Algeria: expected victory, but no ticket for the World Cup
A frustrating expectation, but without danger
For Vladimir Petkovic and his Captain Riyad Mahrez, however, there is no need to worry. Algeria has done the essentials by dominating its direct competitors and by displaying a solidity that can hardly imagine a collapse in the final sprint. The defeat conceded against Guinea to the first leg remains the only addict of an almost perfect course, and a success this Monday against the same national Syli would still bring the Fennecs of North America closer.
Supporters will therefore have to wait a few more weeks, but everything indicates that Algeria will not miss its appointment. In a group where only the first is directly qualified, the Fennecs already hold their destiny in their hands. And except Cataclysm, they will find the World Cup for the first time since 2014, alongside Morocco,
already guaranteed to be travel.
