{"id":256078,"date":"2026-01-24T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/256078\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:30:09","slug":"usm-alger-continue-totalenergies-caf-confederation-cup-group-a-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/256078\/","title":{"rendered":"USM Alger continue TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup Group A dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                Published:&#13;<br \/>\n                Saturday, 24 January 2026&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">USM Alger secured a convincing 2-0 victory over Djoliba to strengthen their position in the CAF competition, delivering a disciplined and effective performance at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The hosts took the lead early in the first half through Zakaria Draoui, who finished calmly from close range in the 12th minute after a well-delivered cross by Houssam Ghacha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">USM Alger continued to control proceedings, creating several chances, with Ghacha and Dramane Kamagate testing Djoliba goalkeeper Wilfried Kouassi on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Djoliba showed moments of attacking intent, notably through Boua Kan\u00e9 and Fod\u00e9 Tour\u00e9, but they were unable to beat Oussama Benbot, who remained solid in goal for the Algerian side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The decisive moment came in the 80th minute when Ahmed Khaldi doubled USM Alger\u2019s advantage with a brilliant left-footed strike from the right side of the box, curling the ball into the top corner following a rapid counter attack, again involving Kamagate in the build-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Both teams made several substitutions in the closing stages, but USM Alger comfortably managed the game to preserve their clean sheet and secure a third successive Group A victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Published:&#13; Saturday, 24 January 2026&#13; USM Alger secured a convincing 2-0 victory over Djoliba to strengthen their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-256078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}