Algeria came back to the world cup after 24 years and this is what they got for their fans (i cant speak and will expand on that on the 2018 WC😭) 24 years of waiting of dreaming of telling your lads one day and Polokwane served up a match that felt like watching paint dry in a wind tunnel and then Birsa a man nobody outside his home town had ever thought about lashed one from distance and Algeria crumbled the Fennecs had chances they treated like unpaid bills ignored, avoided, buried absolutely criminal finishing SLOVENIA DIDNT EVEN PLAY WELL they just didn’t die there’s something poetically cruel about waiting a quarter of a century to return to the biggest stage and getting done like that from a lad whose name sounds like a pasta dish FOOTBALL IS NOT FAIR Narrative: 3.2/5 Tactical architecture: 2.1/5 Chances: 2/5 Goals: 2.8/5 Comeback: N/A Drama: 2.6/5 2.3