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paulchucks: papa God grant my request that we may defeat france I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ my lord Amen

na performance go decide who wins not imaginary god

Arsenal versus nigeria

Algeria’s footballers have already made history in Brazil but for Lakhdar Belloumi there is one thing left to do now they have finally made it through the group stage for the first time. The telephone line between Brazil and Algeria is crackling but the message is clear: “We must take revenge on the Germans.”

In Algeria, it is impossible to look forward to today’s last-16 meeting without also looking back, and Belloumi is the ideal man to tell us why. He scored the winning goal when Algeria beat West Germany 2-1 at the 1982 World Cup – a famous victory which would have provided the springboard for the tournament debutants to become the first African team to reach the second phase but for one of the World Cup’s murkier episodes.

“We beat Germany and Chile and if it hadn’t been for the Germans and Austrians cheating us we’d have reached the second round,” he says. Belloumi is referring to the shameless way West Germany and Austria contrived a result in their final group game to send both through at the expense of an Algeria who had defeated Chile in their third fixture 24 hours earlier.

When Horst Hrubesch scored for the Germans after 10 minutes in Gijon, the match was over as a meaningful contest, eventually leading Robert Seeger, commentating for Austria’s state broadcaster ORF, to advise his audience to switch off their TV sets. In those two-points-per-win days, the result meant the two European neighbours joined Algeria on four points – and edged them out on goal difference. “That’s gone into the history books now and it was thanks to Algeria that Fifa changed their rules,” Belloumi adds .“The last group matches are now played at the same time.”

YouTube footage of Belloumi’s decisive strike against Germany suggests the 1982 Algeria were a special team. They were a close-knit group, given the law forbidding any player under 27 from signing overseas, and there is an impressive speed and fluency about the five-man move which culminated with Belloumi sweeping a low cross past the German keeper Harald Schumacher.

It came just 60 seconds after Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had cancelled out an opening goal by Rabah Madjer, a future European Cup final matchwinner with Porto. L’Equipe described the pair as “Les Magnifiques” and their team as “Une Algérie de légende”.

“We beat them our way,” says Belloumi, then 23 and the reigning African Footballer of the Year. “It was a historic match. In the newspapers we’d been belittled before the game – one player said they were going to beat Algeria easily, that they were going to dedicate the seventh goal to their wives and the eighth to their dogs. But on the pitch we were fighters.”

Algeria had to wait 32 more years to see its footballers win again on the global stage. Hence the scale of the celebrations that have followed the Desert Foxes’ 4-2 group success over South Korea and subsequent draw with Russia. “Everybody is happy now because we’ve reached the second round,” says Belloumi. “Now there’s a new generation carrying the torch. We must go into the game against Germany with a spirit of revenge.”

Guykhena: [size=25pt]Goaaaaaaaaaaaaaal. 2-1 [/size] were are the doubters

that was not a penalty

Goal

Roland17: Qatar can forget hosting 2022, it's not feasible, UEFA would ensure it never happens..

have to agree with you here dude but then na bribe make Qatar get the word cup so doubt of fifa go gree change am

Roland17: Stingy Mexican defense lead by Guillermo Ochoa

really stingy

Roland17: Next time pick another market to price your bend down select ok?

Adios

na you first begin to insult me when I replied to mukina post ok. Adios

Elxandre: Dos Santos is underrated.

didn't do well at Barcelona or spurs for some reason

Roland17: Idiot does not even know the meaning of "arm chair" worth more allocating such to people he barely knows, if all you have done in your pathetic history of being a spud fan is watch Spud at the White hart lane, then you are an arm chair writer when it comes to football..

It would be abominable for me to prove you otherwise with pics from the days of watching Iwuanyawu National ( Heartland) at the Dan Anyiam stadium to watching my dear gunners during their preseason tour live here in the states and a live match at the Ashburton groove,

Dude grow up eeeee, just because you are unfortunate to live and suffer in England does not make your knowledge about football worthy enough to lace the sole of my feet or many others here.

just STFU please

mukina2: shame nor cash you?

na the barca side of him score that goal

no be you say e b ex spuddie just now?

colo$$u$:
Ex-Spurs just did it. Kudos Gio

tell them for me

Former spurs man don score

colo$$u$:
I never get your time

no mind them

Roland17: May Sango slap you and your silly cohorts with the FA Cup resting in our cabinet, if only you know the meaning of being "arm chair", you would relegate that status to your sorry self..

armchair supporter na mumu like you who only supports his club via TV while sitting in your armchair

Roland17: See chicken wen dey talk, u want make I call Walcott for u Ba?

STFU bloody armchair supporter

mukina2: dos santos!
spuds ruined you

sharrrap there

Guykhena: Then why the fvck are you here?

A beg ask am for me

Guykhena: English pls

she's Mexican

baltimora: My heart can't take this.

don't worry so far your team has been the better side

Kolade9: gooooooooooooooal

which game are you watching?

Mexico are the better team so far. They've had the better chances

baltimora: Vamos Méxicooooo!!!!

A Mexican supporting Mexico on a nigerian forum.

fractals: exactly...

no netherlands to win

Lacombre: ....and yet they have the audacity to call Africans ''black monkeys''.
When i see Nigerians regarding the white folks as their mini-gods,i feel sickened. Why can't they use their own white kids for the voodoo thingy? Sacrificial lambs...
Now for those who think UK is heaven,pls do a rethink. The grass always looks greener on the other side...

Well, isn't the God you worshippped today in church the same colour as the white man? And white people no longer believe in that voodoo nonsense, they did about 4 to 500 years ago but they have evolved pass that stage now unlike some of us africans

irun-obo:
THERE IS NOTHING BAD SINCE THEY ONLY STOLE 26BILLION

STEALING IS NOT CORRUPTION---------GEJ

So then what is corruption?

or if you don't give a damn for whatever reason

the netherlands to win

mexico to win

semitunde: The Uruguayan team lacks the necessary bite

Mr Renaissance: If Chile wins, I'll post my nùde pics.

you better not be male