Urgent: Historic qualification for the Mauritania national team, and the strange exclusion of Algeria from the African Cup of Nations.
Watch: The moment the final whistle blew and the historic Al-Mourabitoun team was announced to have qualified, the Algerian team was eliminated, the crying of Riyad Mahrez and all the players on the field, and the mad, hysterical joy of the Mauritanian players.
The Desert Warriors tied in the first round against Angola 1-1, before drawing in the second round again with Burkina Faso with a score of 2-2, raising their score to two points in third place behind Angola and Burkina, each with 4 points, while Mauritania is at the bottom. The group has no points.
The Algerian national team needs to win against Mauritania with a comfortable goal difference, and there is no alternative to it, in order to snatch one of the two tickets from Group Four to the quarter-finals of the African Championship.