They have lacked resourcefulness and creativity since 2019
Hamdani and Antar Yahya can lean on the crutch of the little time they had in their hands, for some time, not all of the time, otherwise their fate with Al-Ansar will be the same as the fate of the second half of Djamel Belmadi’s reign and the entire reign during Petkovic’s time. During the two qualifiers for the 2027 African Cup, we saw some spirit in the first match, but it was completely absent in the second match, and what Antar Yahya, one of the leaders of the Spirit of Umm Rumman, came for, which is combat and sacrifice for the sake of the national shirt. He has not appeared yet, to the point that Burundi is one of the weakest teams in the African continent, despite winning against the Greens in their worst condition.
Saying that Hamdani has the dream squad is a fallacy and saying that he does not have players is an even greater fallacy, but what he has in his hands is a heavy defeat for Burundi, and they stand firm and embarrass any team in the African continent, and they can play in the African Cup of Nations as early favorites with a little effort, especially the ideas that we have lacked since the creativity of the 2019 summer, when they played mediocre but decisive players.
In the matches with Zambia and Burundi, we did not read or see any ideas, and it seemed to those watching the two matches that the coach brought in the trio of Gabal, Belloumi and Haj Moussa to fight for the position of the right wing, so he played Belloumi and replaced him with Haj Moussa, and in the second match he played Belloumi and replaced him with Gabal, and it is clear that he will not play with two of them together, as for the three together that is impossible, and if he had advanced tactical ideas, he would have been able to integrate them into an offensive system that would confuse any defense. On the African continent and in the world.
When the left striker for Borussia Dortmund, Adeyemi, was brought to Barcelona, many considered bringing him to warm up the reserve benches, but coach Flick turned Rafinha into a spearhead who shone and is currently the top scorer in the Spanish League, far ahead of Mbappe and the rest. The Dortmund star played, and such ideas are not lost on the Greens as great players, as happened during the era of Djamel Belmadi, when Algeria lost players at the height of their technical skills such as Adam, Nass and Rachid. Ghazal and Ishak Belfodil, due to his insistence on not creating other positions for the same players, in light of his belief in the quartet of Belaili, Mahrez, Slimani and Bounedjah.
Hamdani’s success in making plays with Ibrahim Mazza would not have happened without the talent of the Leverkusen player, who played freely and moved in the green rectangle without tactical restrictions, but he did not find anyone in the midfield to help him, and it was possible to try Bachir Belloumi or Ilan Qabbal alongside him, for example, and many in the world still field the leftist as a left winger.
The Greens are not only in need of a fighting spirit and choosing the best names, but rather for new ideas that improve the shaky defensive system and the midfield and attack lines and impose their logic on the African teams, and travel on the date of the African Cup of Nations in order to be crowned and not participate in the African Cup of Nations.
