{"id":51738,"date":"2026-02-04T10:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=51738"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:01:18","slug":"petkovic-congo-match-is-difficult-but-we-have-everything-needed-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=51738","title":{"rendered":"Petkovic: Congo Match is Difficult, but We Have Everything Needed to Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National coach Vladimir Petkovic acknowledged the difficulty of the Africa Cup of Nations round of 16 match between the &#8220;Greens&#8221; and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference held today alongside player Isma\u00ebl Bennacer, Petkovic confirmed the players&#8217; readiness to secure qualification for the quarter-finals. He stated: &#8220;We have a knockout match, and we must win it because we want to stay in this tournament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We will face a team with a lot of potential, but we also possess all the qualities that allow us to continue our journey in this competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Reference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabqpress.dz\/%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%aa%d9%83%d9%88%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%aa%d8%b4-%d9%85%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%ac%d9%87%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%88%d9%86%d8%ba%d9%88-%d8%b5%d8%b9%d8%a8%d8%a9-%d9%88%d9%86%d9%85%d9%84%d9%83-%d8%ac\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National coach Vladimir Petkovic acknowledged the difficulty of the Africa Cup of Nations round of 16 match between the &#8220;Greens&#8221; and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. During a press conference held today alongside player Isma\u00ebl Bennacer, Petkovic confirmed the players&#8217; readiness to secure qualification for the quarter-finals. He stated: &#8220;We have a knockout match, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51737,"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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51738","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=51738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}