{"id":52259,"date":"2026-02-08T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=52259"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:31:16","slug":"mahrez-no-pressure-or-fear-of-nigeria-saturdays-clash-differs-from-2019-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=52259","title":{"rendered":"Mahrez: No pressure or fear of Nigeria; Saturday&#8217;s clash differs from 2019 scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National team captain Riyad Mahrez confirmed that he does not fear the Nigerian national team&#8217;s attack, considering that Saturday&#8217;s clash will be completely different from its 2019 counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference held alongside coach Petkovic, Mahrez said that the &#8220;Greens&#8221; are ready to face the Nigerian team with an ambition focused on qualifying for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted the presence of pressure in the tournament in general, but emphasized that the national team is not under any additional pressure ahead of the Nigeria match.<\/p>\n<p>The Al-Ahli Saudi star committed to giving his best alongside his teammates in Petkovic&#8217;s squad and performing at the required level, stating: &#8220;We have a strong team and we will do our best to make our fans happy&#8230; it will be a great match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Reference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabqpress.dz\/%d9%85%d8%ad%d8%b1%d8%b2-%d9%84%d8%a7-%d8%b6%d8%ba%d9%88%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%88%d9%84%d8%a7-%d8%ae%d9%88%d9%81-%d9%85%d9%86-%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d9%88%d9%85%d9%88%d9%82\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National team captain Riyad Mahrez confirmed that he does not fear the Nigerian national team&#8217;s attack, considering that Saturday&#8217;s clash will be completely different from its 2019 counterpart. During a press conference held alongside coach Petkovic, Mahrez said that the &#8220;Greens&#8221; are ready to face the Nigerian team with an ambition focused on qualifying for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52258,"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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52259","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\/52259","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=52259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}