Algeria clawed back from the brink of elimination to stun title favourites Ivory Coast 3-2 on Sunday and reach the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals.

The winners fell 2-1 behind on 89 minutes to a brilliant Abdulkader Keita goal only for Madjid Bougherra to level in stoppage time and unmarked substitute Hamer Bouazza headed a 92nd-minute far-post winner.

Drama continued to the end with television replays suggesting a late shot from Ivorian defender Kolo Toure that found the net was wrongly judged offside by an assistant referee.

Ivory Coast coach Vahid Halilhodzic was furious and distraught in equal measure.

“This is a huge disappointment, of course,” said the 57-year-old Bosnian-born former Yugoslavian international.

“We were not good this evening (Sunday) and we are obliged to congratulate Algeria.

His Algerian counterpart Rabah Saadane had evidently vastly different emotions.

“I am really happy. We came up with what we wanted,” said Saadane.