{"id":33192,"date":"2025-12-09T21:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=33192"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:13:24","slug":"algeria-dominates-iraq-secures-quarter-final-berth-against-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=33192","title":{"rendered":"Algeria Dominates Iraq, Secures Quarter-Final Berth Against UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Doha, Qatar<\/strong> &#8211; The Algerian national team secured its place in the quarter-finals of the Arab Cup in Qatar today, following a decisive 2-0 victory over Iraq. The win, played at the Khalifa International Stadium, cemented Algeria&#8217;s position at the top of Group D.<\/p>\n<p>The match saw Algeria take the lead just before halftime, with Mohamed Amine Tougai scoring a powerful header in the 45+1 minute. The second goal came early in the second half, courtesy of an own goal resulting from a miscommunication between Iraqi goalkeeper Fahad Talib and defender Saad Natiq after a cross from Yacine Brahimi in the 46th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Iraq faced an uphill battle throughout the match, playing with only 10 men after Hussein Ali was sent off in the 5th minute.<\/p>\n<p>With this victory, Algeria finished atop Group D with 7 points, followed by Iraq with 6 points. Bahrain secured third place with 3 points, while Sudan finished fourth with a single point.<\/p>\n<p><em>Looking ahead, Algeria is now set to face the United Arab Emirates in the quarter-finals this Saturday at 6:30 PM local time.<\/em> The match promises to be a thrilling encounter as Algeria aims to continue its strong performance in the tournament and advance further.<\/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>Doha, Qatar &#8211; The Algerian national team secured its place in the quarter-finals of the Arab Cup in Qatar today, following a decisive 2-0 victory over Iraq. The win, played at the Khalifa International Stadium, cemented Algeria&#8217;s position at the top of Group D.The match sa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33193,"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-33192","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\/33192","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=33192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33194,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33192\/revisions\/33194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}