The past is not kind to Algeria… and Petkovic repeats Queiroz’s scenario.

The Algerian national team brought down the curtain on their participation in the 2026 World Cup, losing to their Swiss counterparts by two unanswered goals in their Round of 32 match at the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver.

And it was revealed network”Stats Foot:“French”. On the new negative figure for the “Desert Warriors”, stressing that the Algerian team has not won any of their last ten matches against European teams at the World Cup, settling for four draws against six defeats, since the historic victory over Germany in 1982 (2-1).

The network adds that Algeria are the only African team to have lost by 2 or more goals in the knockout stages of the 2026 FIFA World Cup so far.

He, in turn, highlighted it account”Mr. Sheep“Specialized in statistics It sheds light on a unique incident involving Algeria coach Vladimir Petkovic, who faced Switzerland, the team he previously coached and led to the 2018 World Cup finals.

The account explains that Petkovic became the seventh manager in World Cup history to face a team he previously coached, and he is also the first manager to face such a match in a qualifying match.

Mr. Shape pointed to the most famous instances of coaches overseeing teams at the World Cup in the past, which were: “Bora Milutinovic. China (0-2) Costa Rica 2002, Luis Fernando Suarez. Honduras (1-2) Ecuador 2014

In addition to “Reynaldo Rueda. Ecuador (2-1) in Honduras 2014 edition, Jurgen Klinsmann. United States (0-1) Germany 2014 edition, Carlos Queiroz Iran (1-1) Portugal 2018 edition and Paulo Bento South Korea2 (2-1 Portugal)2.