A few days after their losing the 2022 FIFA World Cup ticket to Cameroon on home soil, Algeria are reported to have filed an appeal to FIFA asking for a replay of the game.
The North African team Algeria which lost 1-2 to Cameroon after extra time on Tuesday, announced through their Football Federation on Thursday that it had lodged an appeal with FIFA in order to replay the game, AFP revealed.
According to the report, the Algerian Football Federation does not want to stop there. This Thursday, two days after their elimination, authorities in Algeria in a statement stated that the “scandalous arbitration” “distorted the result of the match”.
“The FAF is determined to use all the legally permitted means to have its rights restored and to replay the match under conditions guaranteeing the honesty and partiality of the arbitration”, continued the Algerian Federation in its press release. . “The FAF also requests the opening of an investigation by FIFA bodies to shed full light on the arbitration of the Algeria-Cameroon match.
Two goals Scored By Slimani Of Algeria Were Ruled Out:
During the match against Cameroon, Bakary Gassama, the 43-year-old Gambian referee, notably refused Islam Slimani two goals after the intervention of the VAR, for an offside and a hand fault, But he did not flinch when Rachid Ghezzal or Youcef Belaïli were caught in contentious fashion in the area or a ball ricocheted off a Cameroonian arm, which created a feeling of injustice among the Algerians.
“Congratulations to Cameroon, but I think it’s not the most deserving team that qualified,” lamented Djamel Belmadi at a press conference after the elimination of the Fennecs. “We created very clear situations. Them very few, except on crosses. We had many situations without concretizing them. We had the possibility of scoring several times”.