Hosts and title favourites Algeria edged Libya 1-0 in the opening match of the 2022 CHAN thanks to the penalty scored by Aymen Mahious.

Algeria open the CHAN 2022 with a 1-0 Victory over Lybia.

Algeria beat fellow African Arab Nation 1-0 in the CHAN2023, a goal scored by Aimen Mahious in the 57th Minute from a penalty kick. 

Algeria now top group A which has Algeria, Libya, Ethiopia and Mozambique. Ethiopia will play Mozambique in the early Kick Off for tomorrow.

 

The lone forward in the starting line-up netted on 57 minutes in Algiers after a weak back pass led to him being fouled by goalkeeper Muad Allafi. 
 

Algeria hope to win a competition reserved for footballers playing in their country of birth for the first time having finished fourth in a previous appearance 12 years ago.

 

 

Ethiopia play Mozambique at the same venue on Saturday in the other opening round match in the mini-league.

It will be followed by a Group B double-header in the north eastern city of Annaba with two-time champions the Democratic Republic of Congo facing Uganda before the Ivory Coast meet Senegal.  

There are 17 countries hoping to succeed Morocco as winners of a tournament first staged in 2009 and won by DR Congo in the Ivory Coast.