{"id":46552,"date":"2024-10-09T20:13:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo"},"modified":"2024-10-09T21:11:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T21:11:18","slug":"afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo","title":{"rendered":"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Riyad Mahrez and Algeria trained on Tuesday ahead of their upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Togo.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Vladimir Petkovic has some new faces in his squad in this international break with Hertha Berlin&#8217;s Ibrahim Maza, CS Constantine&#8217;s Zakaria Bouhakfaya, OGC Nice&#8217;s Badredine Bounani and USM Algiers&#8217;s Saadi Redouani.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time AFCON champions are unbeaten in their last 16 AFCON qualifiers and have not lost at home in the competition since June 2007.<\/p>\n<p>With two convincing wins already, Algeria lead Group E and look to continue that with a victory over Togo on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Lesotho Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Riyad Mahrez and Algeria trained on Tuesday ahead of their upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Togo. Head coach Vladimir Petkovic has some new faces in his squad in this international break with Hertha Berlin&#8217;s Ibrahim Maza, CS Constantine&#8217;s Zakaria Bouhakfaya, OGC Nice&#8217;s Badredine Bounani and USM Algiers&#8217;s Saadi Redouani. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[1394,4301,245,2262],"class_list":["post-46552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-algeria","tag-can-2025","tag-lesotho","tag-togo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Riyad Mahrez and Algeria trained on Tuesday ahead of their upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Togo. Head ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Riyad Mahrez and Algeria trained on Tuesday ahead of their upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Togo. Head ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-09T20:13:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-09T21:11:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/10\/sm_1728495475.10375.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"938\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"412\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-09T20:13:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-09T21:11:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo\"},\"wordCount\":119,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/10\/sm_1728495475.10375.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Algeria\",\"CAN 2025\",\"Lesotho\",\"Togo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo\",\"name\":\"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo - Lesotho\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/10\/sm_1728495475.10375.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-09T20:13:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-09T21:11:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Riyad Mahrez and Algeria trained on Tuesday ahead of their upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Togo. Head ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/10\/sm_1728495475.10375.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/10\/sm_1728495475.10375.jpg\",\"width\":938,\"height\":412,\"caption\":\"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\",\"name\":\"Lesotho\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo - Lesotho","description":"Riyad Mahrez and Algeria trained on Tuesday ahead of their upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Togo. Head ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo","og_description":"Riyad Mahrez and Algeria trained on Tuesday ahead of their upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Togo. Head ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo","og_site_name":"Lesotho","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2024-10-09T20:13:19+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-10-09T21:11:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":938,"height":412,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/10\/sm_1728495475.10375.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo","datePublished":"2024-10-09T20:13:19+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-09T21:11:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo"},"wordCount":119,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/10\/sm_1728495475.10375.jpg","keywords":["Algeria","CAN 2025","Lesotho","Togo"],"articleSection":["all news","sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo","name":"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo - Lesotho","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/10\/sm_1728495475.10375.jpg","datePublished":"2024-10-09T20:13:19+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-09T21:11:18+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Riyad Mahrez and Algeria trained on Tuesday ahead of their upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Togo. Head ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/10\/sm_1728495475.10375.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/10\/sm_1728495475.10375.jpg","width":938,"height":412,"caption":"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/afcon-qualifiers-mahrez-and-algeria-train-ahead-of-togo#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"AFCON qualifiers: Mahrez and Algeria train ahead of Togo"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/","name":"Lesotho","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}