{"id":31990,"date":"2025-12-06T13:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=31990"},"modified":"2025-12-06T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:12:40","slug":"algeria-seeks-first-victory-in-arab-cup-clash-with-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=31990","title":{"rendered":"Algeria Seeks First Victory in Arab Cup Clash with Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Algerian national team faces a crucial encounter against Bahrain today at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, as they strive to boost their chances of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Arab Cup. This follows their opening match draw against Sudan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Les Verts<\/em> will enter the match without Adam Ounas, who is suspended. This absence may prompt coach Madjid Bougherra to make tactical adjustments aimed at enhancing the team&#8217;s attacking prowess.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain, on the other hand, is also seeking a victory after their defeat against Iraq. This makes the match a potentially open and competitive affair, within a group considered to be evenly balanced.<\/p>\n<p>In the other Group A fixture, Iraq will face Sudan in a match that could secure their early qualification to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams from each group will advance to the quarter-finals. The champion stands to receive a prize of over $7 million, while the runner-up will be awarded more than $4 million. <strong>This highlights the high stakes and competitive nature of the tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Algeria needs to secure a win to keep its hopes alive. <em>The team&#8217;s performance will be closely watched by fans across the nation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=40\">More Sports articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Algerian national team faces a crucial encounter against Bahrain today at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, as they strive to boost their chances of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Arab Cup. This follows their opening match draw against Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Les Verts will ent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31992,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990\/revisions\/31992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}