33·Legends

Hacène Lalmas vs Salah Assad

Algeria against Algeria. The almanac states its case, the crowd votes, you decide.

HL

Hacène Lalmas

Algeria · 1962–2007 · CM

Almanac rating
85
Rank in Algeria
#5 of 33
Caps
43 · 14 goals
Clubs
OMR El Annasser, CR Belouizdad, NA Hussein Dey

On 22 October 1962 Lalmas scored fourteen goals in one match, an 18-0 win over Birtouta, and no Algerian bettered that single-game figure until 2007; the terraces called him El Kebch, the Ram. He won four league titles and three Algerian Cups with CR Belouizdad, three Maghreb Champions Cups, the 1969-70 scoring prize, and finished with 131 championship goals and 43 caps. Career record: 43 caps and 14 goals for Algeria; club career at OMR El Annasser, CR Belouizdad, NA Hussein Dey.

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SA

Salah Assad

Algeria · 1978–82 · LM

Almanac rating
85
Rank in Algeria
#7 of 33
Caps
68 · 18 goals
Clubs
RC Kouba, FC Mulhouse, Paris Saint-Germain

Two goals inside the first 32 minutes against Chile in Oviedo on 24 June 1982 gave Assad two of Algeria's five goals at that World Cup, and eight days earlier his cross had set up Belloumi's winner against West Germany. He won the Algerian championship with RC Kouba in 1981, gold at the 1978 All-Africa Games, and a runners-up medal at the 1980 Africa Cup of Nations, where he made the team of the tournament. Career record: 68 caps and 18 goals for Algeria; club career at RC Kouba, FC Mulhouse, Paris Saint-Germain.

The verdict

The almanac cannot separate them: both are rated 85.

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