There was one spot left in the African region (CAF) for next summer’s 2010 World Cup Finals heading into Wednesday, November 18, 2009. Algeria played Egypt with the winner to punch a ticket to South Africa. Here’s a recap of the match along with video highlights.
Algeria defeats Egypt 1-0 – Video Highlights
Algeria clinched a spot in South Africa next summer with a 1-0 win over Egypt. The goal came in the 39th minute and was from Anthar Yahia. It is the first World Cup for Algeria since 1986. It was a close match and Algeria was able to hold off Egypt in the second half to get the 1-0 victory.
ALGEGY 
- 1 Fawzi CHAOUCHI (GK)
- 2 Madjid BOUGHERRA
- 3 Nadir BELHADJ
- 4 Antar YAHIA
(-66′ ) - 5 Rafik HALLICHE
- 6 Yazid MANSOURI (C)
- 9 Abdelkader GHEZZAL
- 10 Rafik SAIFI (-85′ )
- 11 Mourad MEGHNI (-58′ )
- 12 Hassan YEBDA
- 15 Karim ZIANI
- (GK) Essam EL HADARY 1
- Ahmed AL MUHAMADI 3
- (-75′)
Abdel ZAHER EL SAKKA 4 - Mohamed ABOUTRIKA 5
- Hani SAID 6
- (-45′+1) AHMED FATHI 7
- EMAD METEAB 10
- Sayed MOAWAD 14
- (-45′+1) Amr ZAKI 15
- (C) AHMED HASSAN 17
- Wael GOMAA 18
Substitute(s)
- 7 Yacine BEZZAZ
- 8 Rafik DJEBBOUR
- 13 Karim MATMOUR
(+58′) - 14 Abdelkader LAIFAOUI
- 16 Mohamed OUSERIR
- 17 Samir ZAOUI (+66′)
- 18 Hamer BOUAZZA
- (+75′)
AHMED EID 2 - (+45′+1) Hosny ABD RABO 8
- (+45′+1) Mohamed ZIDAN 9
- Mohamed SHAWKY 11
- Mohamed BARAKAT 12
- Mohamed HOMOS 13
- WAHID 16
Coaches
Rabah SAADANE (ALG)
(EGY) Hassan SHEHATA
Officials
- Referee: Eddy MAILLET (SEY)
- Assistant Referee 1: Evarist MENKOUANDE (CMR)
- Assistant Referee 2: Jason DAMOO (SEY)
- Fourth official: Jean-Claude LABROSSE (SEY)
