The shocks continued at the Africa Cup of Nations finals as Algeria crashed out of the tournament with a 1-0 defeat to Mauritania, who sealed an historic place in the last-16.
Mauritania had never led in any of their previous eight matches at the continental finals, let alone won a game, but a first half goal from Yali Dellahi was enough to send Algeria packing in a second successive embarrassing early exit for Djamel Belmadi's side, after a similar failure in 2021.
