Zambia’s opponents in Thursday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier, Algeria are expected to be without six players including Manchester City star Riyadh Mahrez.
According to Algerian sources monitored by the ZamFoot Crew, Mahrez, Said Benrahma, Ramy Bensebaini, Ismael Bennacer, Sofiane Feghouli & Aissa Mandi will not travel to Zambia for this Thursday’s AFCON 2021 qualifier but no specific reason has been given yet.
However, five players in Rais M’Bolhi, Azzedine Doukha, Mehdi Tahrat, Mehdi Abeid, and Hillal Soudani are already in Zambia as they flew directly to Lusaka.
Just a reminder: Riyad Mahrez, Said Benrahma, Ramy Bensebaini, Ismael Bennacer, Sofiane Feghouli & Aissa Mandi will not travel to Zambia for this Thursday's #AFCON2021 qualifier
Rais M'Bolhi, Azzedine Doukha, Mehdi Tahrat, Mehdi Abeid and Hillal Soudani flew directly to Zambia https://t.co/9BNBCb3yv6
— DZfoot English 🇩🇿⚽️ (@DZfoot_EN) March 22, 2021
The match against Algeria will be played on Thursday at the National Heroes Stadium in Lusaka at 21:00hours.
Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic’s side will wrap up the qualifiers with an away fixture against Zimbabwe on Monday next week.
🇩🇿🇿🇲 Players available for Zambia #TeamDZ
GK: M'Bolhi, Doukha, Oukidja
RB: Zeffane, Benayada
CB: Benlamri, Tahrat, Bedrane, Touba
LB: Abdellaoui, Khacef
CM: Guedioura, Belkebla, Abeid, Boulaya, Zerrouki, Zorgane
AM: Belaili, Ghezzal, Soudani
FW: Bounedjah, Slimani, Darfalou pic.twitter.com/BMog8pXBP9— DZfoot English 🇩🇿⚽️ (@DZfoot_EN) March 22, 2021
We should not be carried away with some of the players missing in Algeria’s camp. We should play to win.and play as a team.
Period…lets fail with our heads high…
Zamfoot…any infor on the possible line up? Ka leakage kaili
@mafyototo its to early line up tomorrow
Don’t be fooled fellow Zambians. They are now playing psychological game on you. Don’t fall for it. Remember Ghana also lied in the world qualifications years back… That Asamoa Gian was not going to play coz of injury but he played. Don’t be fooled.
Don’t be fooled fellow Zambians. Don’t let them play you a psychological game. Whether there are there or not there we’ll play them and win.
As Bet Association of Zambia we are misguided and please don’t give us a half baked information!
We are fucked up