{"id":532352,"date":"2026-09-30T00:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=532352"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:41:05","slug":"2027-afcon-qualifiers-down-2-0-algeria-snatches-a-draw-against-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/2027-afcon-qualifiers-down-2-0-algeria-snatches-a-draw-against-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 AFCON Qualifiers: Down 2-0, Algeria Snatches a Draw Against Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria avoided a surprise defeat in Burundi by securing a 2-2 draw on Tuesday, September 29, in Bujumbura, during the second matchday of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Greens experienced a disastrous start to the match. Far\u00e8s Cha\u00efbi scored an own goal as early as the 5th minute before Jospin Girumugisha doubled the Burundian lead in the 12th minute.<\/p>\n<h2>Belloumi and Boulbina bring back the Greens<\/h2>\n<p>Bachir Belloumi revived Algeria at the half-hour mark. Adil Boulbina then equalized in the 62nd minute, allowing Brahim Hemdani\u2019s men to salvage a point after being two goals down.<\/p>\n<p>The Algerian coach acknowledged after the match that his team had conceded two avoidable goals, while highlighting his players&#8217; response.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria remains undefeated after two matchdays. They had beaten Zambia 3-1 in their first game. Burundi, for its part, earns its first point after its initial defeat against Togo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria came back from two goals down to secure a 2-2 draw in Burundi. Belloumi and Boulbina responded to a disastrous start by the Greens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":532353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_benews_format":"","_benews_media_url":"","_benews_urgent_until":0,"_benews_essentials":"","_benews_format_auto":"","_benews_nl_alert":false,"_benews_premium":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"pays":[],"personnalite":[],"class_list":["post-532352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afrique-sport"],"acf":{"type_de_publication":"actualite","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532354,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532352\/revisions\/532354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532352"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=532352"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=532352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}