The famous Algerian coach, Abdelhak Ben Sheikha, technical director of the Algerian club JS Kabylie, sparked widespread controversy on various social media platforms, due to a strange and incomprehensible snapshot that occurred to him during his team’s match against… MC AlgeriaOn Tuesday, in a postponed match for the first round of the Algerian Professional League.
Mouloudia Algiers scored a valuable victory against JS Kabylie, with a score of two goals to one, at Al Hussein Ait Ahmed Stadium in Tizi Ouzou Governorate, the club’s stronghold. Js Kabylie Amid a record crowd attendance, and a very wonderful atmosphere created by the fans of both clubs in the stands.
The excitement reached its peak on the field thanks to the lead of Mouloudia Algiers in the match starting from the ninth minute thanks to a goal by the player Larbi Thabeti, before Al-Shabiba equalized the score in the 42nd minute through defender Mohamed El Amin Madani, who did not complete the match after being sent off in the 78th minute.
Mouloudia Algiers added the second goal in the match in the 68th minute through defender Reda Halaymia, so that last season’s champion recorded his first victory in the Algerian Professional League during the 2024-25 season after tying in the previous match against Paradou Club with a goal for the same.
Coach Ben Sheikha raises controversy with a “defensive” intervention in the Algerian league
The match between JS Kabylie and Mouloudia Algiers was marked by many controversial refereeing shots, some of which used the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology, while this technology was not used in other exciting shots, which sparked widespread controversy on social media platforms.
Over the past few hours, Algerian fans have circulated a video showing the JS Kabylie coach, Abdul Haq bin SheikhaHe intervened on the Mouloudia Algiers striker, the Ivorian club, Kibre Junior, as the footage clearly shows his intervention to take the ball away from him while it was on the field.
Indeed, Ben Sheikha snatched the ball from the Mouloudia Algiers striker and it returned to one of his players to continue playing. The video did not explain the details of the shot well and whether the referee had actually intervened before it, but it had already sparked great controversy among the Algerian fans, and I wondered how a shot like this could pass by the referee of the match. Nabil Boukhalfa.
The appointment of referee Boukhalfa to manage the match between JS Kabylie and Mouloudia Algiers in the Algerian league was a dissatisfaction and raised concerns for the fans of the JS Kabylie Club. Despite the presence of video assistant referee technology, the Canary fans believe that their team was harmed by the decisions of the referee Boukhalfa, especially in the scene of the intervention of the Mouloudia defender, Ayoub. Abdelaoui, Ali striker Kasila Boualia.
Bin Sheikha comments on Abdel-Lawi’s shot and the “VAR” technique
The video of defender Abdelaoui’s intervention on striker Boualia during the first half of the match spread like wildfire on social media platforms, and many followers and youth fans unanimously agreed that the Mouloudia defender deserved to be sent off, but the match referee merely issued a yellow card.
JS Kabylie fans believe that Abdel-Laoui’s shot is more violent and dangerous than the shot of their player Mohamed Amin Madani in the second half, after which he was sent off after returning to the “VAR” technique, while this technique was not used in the shot of the Mouloudia player.
Bin Sheikha said during the press conference after the match, commenting on this particular shot: “I do not like talking about arbitration. In fact, he is a good and honest referee, but I was hoping that he would return to the “VAR” technique after Abdelaoui’s intervention on Boualia,” and he confirmed: “Boualia looked as if he had fallen from the fifth floor,” referring to the strength and danger of the intervention of the Mouloudia Algiers defender.
