Lemmouchia: Egypt-Algeria should not have gone ahead

Three players from Algeria's team were slightly hurt on Thursday when youths stoned their bus as they arrived in the Egyptian capital.

The incident prompted FIFA to ask Egypt for written guarantees confirming additional security measures to protect the Algerian squad, while the Egyptian FA claimed the incident was staged by the Algerians.

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