ASO Chlef and CR Belouizdad shared the spoils in a 3-3 draw at the start of Ligue 1's regular season on 2026-09-05. The hosts took an early lead through Z. Motrani, who struck twice in the opening minutes before D. Kaassis equalised for the visitors. By then the match had already settled into something more unpredictable than either side expected.
Motraní opened the scoring in the first minute and doubled his tally six minutes later, sending Chlef into a two-goal cushion. Kaassis responded thirteen minutes in to bring Belouizdad level again. Then came the turning point at twenty minutes, when A. Debbari turned against his own side to restore the home advantage. The incident went to review, but the goal stood.
Etouga levelled for the visitors in the forty-second minute, cancelling out Debbari's mistake and setting up a tense second half. R. Akacem picked up a yellow card in the fifty-eighth minute, a caution that briefly interrupted the flow. The game continued to open up as both sides searched for a winner.
Substitutions began to reshape the contest from the seventieth minute. Motraní was withdrawn after his brace, replaced by Z. Motraní — a naming overlap that required attention from the fourth official. Two changes came together in the seventy-sixth minute, with Y. Laouafi and F. El Melali arriving for Belouizdad. A final substitution in stoppage time saw B. Boukerchaoui enter the fray for the hosts.
The result leaves both sides on one point from one game, though Chlef sit fifth while Belouizdad occupy fourth. We had backed the hosts to win, giving them 39 per cent confidence, but the match went differently — that own goal at twenty minutes changed the entire complexion of the evening. It was not a clean victory for either side, but neither could claim they deserved less.