Match Report
8 points and 1 places separated them: Algeria 1st with 16, Tanzania 2nd with 8. On recent form Tanzania sat only 19th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 2nd overall. Against a league average of 1.21 goals per team per game, Algeria ran at 1.5 scored and 0.33 conceded, Tanzania at 0.5 and 0.67.
Defeat had not touched Algeria in 9 games.
The match was played at Stade du 19 Mai 1956 in Annaba (capacity 10,000). It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.