It was the first official game for Assaidi as a starter for our NT IIRC and Gerets dropped Taarabt for him as the starting LW and then Taarabt decided to leave the NT camp and Assaidi went to have a stellar game against Algeria scoring that wonderfull and Gerets said sarcastically " i hope Taarabt watched the game that Assaidi just had ".
Like you said we have the best squad in Africa by miles, Assaidi, Taarabt, Hamdaoui, Benatia, Berrada, Bousoufa, Labyed, Kharja, Ahmadi.... But we suck as unit, maybe it's the coach maybe it's the mentality of the players as the majority of our starting eleven can't even speak arabic.