00:00come Algeria with a 100% record so far now the Total Energies Africa Cup of
00:07Nations all victories in Equatorial Guinea with a 100% record in the other
00:12direction all defeats can they put that right today last year
00:22so Algeria get us underway in their final group E-game against an Equatorial
00:29guineaside looking to avoid defeat for the first time in the tournament the
00:33North Africans, nonetheless it was the far less fancied Inzalang
00:38national who
00:42emerged on top of group A
00:46and in their final group game in Ivory Coast last year they beat the hosts by
00:49four goals to nil one of the biggest upsets in the Nations Cup and at that
00:53point it looks as if the elephants of Ivory Coast were out of the tournament
00:57that's a lovely flick from Hadj Moussa into the middle it goes and across the face of goal
01:01driven in by Mazza, Bakra cannot get a touch
01:07still Algeria having that's nice footwork
01:09Abdelhi goes deep on this occasion to Hadj Moussa who's got time to control no one around him
01:14strike a goal
01:16reflects up and high, Belhali cannot get it well that looked like handball from Pablo Gannett and
01:20the Algerian supporters are very much claiming that nothing is yet from the official
01:28that really did look as though it hit the hand of the Equatorial guinea defender
01:31Algeria having profited from a penalty last time around against Burkina Faso when Ryan Aitnuri was
01:47fouled and Riyad Mahrez stepped up from the spot midway through the opening half to ensure that after
01:53Algeria beating Saddam 3-0 on match day one
01:57Algeria follow that up with victory
02:00far more slender against Burkina Faso a far more tough opponent than 1-0 had ended
02:07Petkovic is still talking to the fourth official about that handball that he saw and I think I did too
02:14Hadj Moussa nice skills from Hadj Moussa and he's gone one way then the other strikes a goal deflected and that'll be a corner
02:20to the North Africans so far he's twisting and turning his opposite number
02:32this is 11th cap today the final man
02:38right to score made his debut last year
02:40Moussa with the delivery in it goes flicked on and flicked in
02:52and Algeria lead 19 minutes on the clock and Zinedine Belayid is the man who breaks the deadlock early on
03:00it has not taken Algeria long
03:04the man who's coming to the side today like many
03:06time and space in the area and he rose and buried that past Jesus
03:14that's the one goal they've scored so far
03:17and there's Algeria a rampant
03:19Moussa, Zarouki, Belhali looking to play back into Moussa
03:24he has to get high, terrific ball in and over the top and that could so easily have been two
03:33now he just needed to touch it past
03:35no 1-0
03:37pre-season with Angers in Ligue 1
03:40this is only his sixth cap today as he just shoves
03:52Moussa to the floor
03:59Pablo Gallet
04:00the first footballer from Equatorial Guinea to ever play in La Liga
04:23the 24 year old
04:30still on the books of the La Liga side
04:32Alaves loaned out to Andorra in the second tier of Spanish football
04:38just a handful of appearances in La Liga so far
04:41they're looking for options up front but instead playing it back into Saul Cocco who's
04:52based in Italy with Torino
04:59and they are streaming forward here Shaibi
05:02Baccarat on the left-hand side Baccarat goes for goal
05:05and he puts his head in his hands because he knows that he didn't get the power that he wanted there
05:11very, very comfortable save
05:15the Equatorial Guinea goalkeeper
05:40very, very, very, very
05:42happy, happy
05:45Hefid Tugay making his first start of the tournament.
06:09Maza, nice turn away from Mascarelle and releases Shaibi.
06:14Shaibi in an ocean of space, he's got options and he drives it into the roof of the net.
06:21Having taken his time, he sized it up and he made no mistake to double Algeria's lead.
06:31Two goals in six minutes for the North Africans who are threatening to run away with this.
06:38Shaibi has his first goal in two years, his third for Algeria.
06:46And he just had so much time and space that didn't he use it well.
06:53He held the line inside the full-back.
06:56Former African champions in Tunisia.
06:59Haj Moussa gets it back from Belhali.
07:02Ah, dancing feet again.
07:04Lovely footwork.
07:06And to my right, some former internationals are so impressed by Haj Moussa and the trickery that he's showing with that left foot of his.
07:15And he is causing no ends of problems for Charles Ondo.
07:28I wish he was not making his first start of the tournament today.
07:32Shaibi.
07:35To Maza.
07:37Based in Germany with Bayer Leverkusen.
07:39Zaruki Abdela.
07:41Abdeli just playing it through the lines.
07:44Haj Moussa again.
07:45The ball in again.
07:46No.
07:47They are scoring every time they come forward.
07:50Ibrahim Maza.
07:52He's only 20 years of age.
07:54He's one of the youngest players ever to play for Algeria at a Nations Cup.
08:01And he has got two goals already.
08:04And Haj Moussa is causing huge problems down this right-hand side.
08:11And an equatorial guinea cannot live with them.
08:20Well, the question is, what might this end up as?
08:26Given time and space.
08:27Despite over a decade of international appearances, saying he had never received clearance to formalise his switch from Spain, where he was a youth.
08:35He won the European Championships, a youth level, under 19, under 21 as well.
08:44And then it was almost a year before he was officially cleared to play for Equatorial Guinea.
08:50Having argued to football's world governing body that he was eligible to play for his nation since birth because of the nature of the Equator-Guinean constitution,
08:59which says that anybody who is the son of an Equator-Guinean is instantly an Equator-Guinean.
09:04And his father is from Equatorial Guinea.
09:07He played in the early stages of the World Cup qualifying campaign and sway.
09:14And he scored match winners against both Namibia and Liberia.
09:18But they were overturned as a result of his then-ineligibility.
09:23This is his 50th appearance today.
09:26He's got a 1-2 record.
09:28He is the all-time top scorer for Equatorial Guinea.
09:35And as I said, he paid for over a decade without ever having received clearance.
09:41Pretty remarkable.
09:42But he's back on the pitch today and he's back on the ball playing it into Pablo Gannett.
09:46Gannett with the strike into the side netting.
09:49Some of the old guard.
09:51Pablo Gannett has scored a fantastic three.
09:57Incredibly deep to pick it up, the attacking midfielder.
10:01Belayid strides forward round the corner into Belhali.
10:06Algeria looking for a fourth at the end.
10:08There's this half, and Shaibi just couldn't get the contact.
10:11Nice sweeping move from Algeria.
10:14This is the sort of stuff they practice,
10:18keeping the ball in just these sorts of areas.
10:20And now they open it up and free Belhali, who's in a ton of space.
10:25Now to Hajj Moussa.
10:28Hajj Moussa round the corner into Belhali.
10:30Just too much on it.
10:31Well read by Koko.
10:36Now the Ilondo plays it short.
10:38Belhali.
10:39He's got Mazza to his left-hand side.
10:41Mazza in a lot of space.
10:43He's just taken too long.
10:44Here it is.
10:45Into Mazza.
10:46Looking to make it two.
10:47Into the middle it goes.
10:48They're taking their time.
10:49Super save from Owono.
10:51To deny Bakra.
10:52There is not too much time.
10:54Look at that.
10:55A really strong right arm from Owono.
10:58Tugay into Belhali, who's popped up on the left flank, the right back.
11:04Tugay.
11:05Now Lays ringing around.
11:06Free kick Algeria's way.
11:07They have been lively on both flanks, these two.
11:19Arguably favours the right footer, and it is Shaibi who takes it.
11:22And Owono spills it behind for the corner.
11:24I'm not sure there's going to be time to take it.
11:26No indication from the official as we go into the third minute.
11:31Perhaps he's being taken by the incessant Algeria attacks.
11:35No.
11:36Corner taken.
11:37The half-time whistle blows.
11:39And a torrid opening period for Equatorial Guinea comes to an end
11:43because they have been blown away.
11:47What can Equatorial Guinea do to stop this rampant Nigerian side?
11:53As Emilio ensues.
11:56The Nzelang Nacional captain kicks us off.
12:05And Nigeria's record margin of victory at a nation's camp I make it is by four goals.
12:14Defeated Uganda by four goals to nil in 1968.
12:18And perhaps more surprisingly in 1990 they beat Nigeria by that margin 5-1.
12:29And that was their opening game of the 1990 tournament played on home soil in Algeria.
12:37Rabah Majat, one of the greats of the Algerian game, scoring twice in that game.
12:41And then they saw Ivory Coast by three goals to nil.
12:45And then Egypt by two goals to nil on their way to winning the title.
12:48And are they on their way to a fourth goal here?
12:50Into the middle it goes and straight to Jesus 1-0.
12:55Good pace again.
12:56Atal charging forward.
12:57In the semi-finals in 1990 they...
13:06Oh, into the net it goes.
13:12Unsue.
13:14He wants to lead the fight back out of nowhere.
13:16Equatorial Guinea have won back and that is exactly what they would have wanted to happen.
13:23And look how pumped he is, the 36-year-old.
13:27His seventh goal in the tournament.
13:30And look at this for a strike from Unsue. Absolutely spectacular.
13:40Well, where did that come from? A rocket.
13:44Have conceded a goal.
13:47I don't think Luka Zidane, the starting keeper, could have done anything about that either.
13:52I don't know if they had to leave that.
13:53I don't know if they had to leave that.
14:19Dal Boa.
14:20And this is so much better from Equatorial Guinea, making good progress forward into
14:43Ensuey again, Ensuey denied on this occasion by Mondrea.
15:07Still he's organising Ensuey.
15:12You wouldn't know, they haven't got a hope of making it through to the next phase.
15:16Second half, and they did it in the entirety of the first, and they registered precisely
15:20zero to Algeria's sixth.
15:28Zerouki looking for Shaibi.
15:32It's possessed by Ani Ebo.
15:43Matching.
15:46Faced in Italy, the 29-year-old.
15:53Abdelhi gets a win.
16:02Koko making ground into Ensuey, a little flick round the corner to match it.
16:11Balboa, they look a different side, whatever Mica said at half-time really worked as Balboa strikes a goal and
16:17Mandrea turns it around.
16:19And behind for a corner, it's so much better than the Equatorian Guineans.
16:33You can see the players assembling in the penalty area for this delivery.
16:46He is absolutely pumped up for this.
16:51Pablo Gannett swings it in.
16:55And Pablo Gannett, I think, is going to get another go.
17:02If Rhee wasn't ready.
17:07Algerian fans whistling their disapproval.
17:14Gannett again, goes near post again, and fails to find a player in red again.
17:21Haj Moussa, and Bakra, forward into Shaibi.
17:28Here he is, the man wearing number 11, switch the play out to Shaibi.
17:35Space on this left-hand side, Bakra in the middle.
17:39But only Bakra for now.
17:42Plays it back into Zorgan.
17:45Dorval.
17:50Pekovic really is giving his squad a run-out here.
17:55Dorval around the corner, that's a lovely ball into Shaibi.
18:00Twist and turn from Shaibi.
18:02Oh, against the crossbar.
18:04So close to his second and Algeria's fourth.
18:08Oh, once again, just a little check back onto his right foot.
18:12And then another...
18:34Uwono looking for Iben Edu, a little chest back to match him with the flick, only as far as
18:39Shaibi who shows good strength. To hold off Ani Ebo, a bit of space, Pablo Gannett out to the left-hand
18:48side, there's an overlapping. The goalkeeper Jesus Uwono coming up as well, in it goes, delivery
18:55flicks on and Zaruki with the header away and then Uwono was just lining one up, taken off his toes,
19:02the final whistle blows and Algeria are through as Group E winners with a 100% record, three victories
19:13from their three games for the third time in history and the two previous times they have achieved
19:22that feat, they have later been crowned African champions, they have conceded a goal for the
19:29first time in the tournament, but they've given their second string a run out as well and how
19:35they impressed particularly in the first half when Zinedine Belayid, Fares Shaibi and Ibrahim
19:42Mazza with his second goal of the tournament just powered them, propelled them into a quick fire,
19:49three-goal advantage. Emilio Uncui with one of the goals of the tournament.
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