Algeria 1-0 DR Congo — AFCON extra-time latest Algeria and DR Congo are goalless in extra time in the penultimate last-16 tie at AFCON 2025 today. After a tight contest over 90 minutes, where the best chance fell to Anis Hadj Moussa as Algeria pushed for a winner, the match went to extra-time. Fares Chaibi tested DR Congo’s Lionel Mpasi from close range in the second half of extra-time. Nigeria await the winner of today's match in the quarter-final. How Boulbina sent his country into the quarter-final Goodness gracious, what a goal. What a strike and what a moment for the 22-year-old hero, Adil Boulbina. GOAL! ALGERIA HAVE STOLEN IT! I do not believe it! Algeria substitute Adil Boulbina has just scored a wonderful winning goal! Mbuku strikes it straight at Zidane Poor from Mbuku, who bursts forward and cuts inside but opts to shoot rather than trying to find a team-mate. Weak and straight down the throat of Zidane. Penalties looming large Luca Zidane takes a goal kick for Algeria, knowing a shoot-out is surely on the way unless there is a hugely dramatic late goal. His dad, football legend and World Cup winner Zinedine, is in the stands. No pressure, kid. The final changes for Algeria now Off come Boudaoui and Chaibi, on come Boulbina and Zerrouki. Zerrouki for Boudaoui in central midfield, Boulbina likely to move onto the left side in place of Chaibi. Both could be used as penalty takers. Mpasi saves from Chaibi! And then Bounedjah! A clear chance! Finally! Chancel Mbemba looks like he's struggling with a knock but Algeria play on, as is their right, and Amoura finds Chaibi in space inside the box. He fires it towards the near post but Mpasi gets down low to parry it away! From the second phase, Bounedjah scampers into the box and cuts inside before shooting for the bottom-left corner... but Mpasi denies him again! Big save. Moutoussamy limps off Yep, Moutoussamy's day is done. Midfielder Charles Pickel comes on in DR Congo's last change. Algeria have two subs left. Cramps again Samuel Moutoussamy, who has done a whole lot of work today, sits down after a pass and holds his hands up. His game looks like it is done. Clear cramp for the defensive midfielder. The DRC physios come on to offer him some treatment. 106' Algeria 0-0 DR Congo Michel-Ange Balikwisha trips the flying Anis Hadj Moussa and is a bit fortunate to avoid a yellow. Algeria have the free kick from the right. A good opportunity. It comes to nothing. SECOND HALF OF EXTRA TIME: Algeria 0-0 DR Congo Back into the action in Rabat. Penalties are a quarter of an hour away if neither side can find a goal. No goals yet Still goalless. A stark lack of goals. Goals conspicuous by their absence. We've played so long, I think I've forgotten what goals look like or whether goals are theoretically possible. Do goals even exist? Do we exist? What is life? Anyway, second half of extra time is coming up. HALF TIME IN EXTRA TIME: Algeria 0-0 DR Congo There's the break in extra time. 15 more minutes incoming. Algeria with a free kick The resulting set piece is bent in by Hadj Moussa, Bensebaini heads it powerfully on goal but it's straight at Mpasi. Which means... Mbemba struggling Chancel Mbemba looks shaky here, which is not often the case at all. A loose first touch falls for Bounedjah, Mbemba can't put his foot in on a booking and so Edo Kayembe slides in desperately and catches Amoura on the boot. Amoura has been in the wars, the poor kid. Yellow card for Kayembe. Amoura getting some treatment. The pause in play sees Algerian fans waving their phones from side to side with their torches on. One minute added on at the end of the first half of extra time. Close for Algeria! It's all happening now. Amoura barges over Mbuku, who had cut inside from the right, looks like a foul but we play on and it's played up to Bounedjah. Mbemba gets too tight, is rolled by the 34-year-old and has to let go otherwise he'll get a second yellow card and be sent off. So Bounedjah races in on goal, out to Amoura, crossed in from the left, the stretching Bounedjah nearly gets there but Mpasi collects safely. But he drops it again! And is lucky that a team-mate nudged it back to him in the nick of time. In the end, he wins a soft free kick as an Algerian attacker tried to poke the loose ball home. Never a foul! Bounedjah smashes it wide Into triple figures for minutes played and Bounedjah sprints down the left before firing it wide from a tight angle. Chancel Mbemba is booked after he stopped Mohamed Amoura running past him off the ball with a high elbow into Amoura's neck/throat area. Mbemba protests his case but that was pretty cheeky and fully warranted a yellow, even if he is much taller than Amoura, which offers some mitigation as to where his arm landed. Yellow cards like London buses: we waited ages for the first one and now they're all coming at once! Balikwisha earns another yellow card End-to-end now as Algeria and DR Congo tire, leaving more spaces as the press becomes less intense. Moutoussamy makes a tackle at the edge of the box, Mbuku overruns it and as he falls he catches Bensebaini, who might have jarred his knee. Abdelli brings it forward, Amoura crosses from the left, headed away as far as Hadj Moussa, who is tackled by Balikwisha and slides in in retaliation. Foul, free kick, yellow card. Nigeria must be delighted Not only did the Super Eagles dispatch yesterday's opponents Mozambique with minimum fuss, even taking off some of their key players early for a rest given they were well ahead, they have an extra day's rest to the winner of this match, who they will play in the quarter-final. Bet Nigeria are glad to have their feet up right now as these two sides battle it out in extra time for two hours minimum. The first yellow card of the game! Rafik Belghali is booked after flying into a tackle on sub Michel-Ange Balikwisha.
Algeria 1-0 DR Congo — AFCON extra-time latest
Algeria and DR Congo are goalless in extra time in the penultimate last-16 tie at AFCON 2025 today. After a tight contest over 90 minutes, where the best chance fell to Anis Hadj Moussa as Algeria pushed for a winner, the match went to extra-time. Fares Chaibi tested DR Congo’s Lionel Mpasi from close range in the second half of extra-time. Nigeria await the winner of today's match in the quarter-final.
How Boulbina sent his country into the quarter-final
Goodness gracious, what a goal. What a strike and what a moment for the 22-year-old hero, Adil Boulbina.
GOAL! ALGERIA HAVE STOLEN IT!
I do not believe it! Algeria substitute Adil Boulbina has just scored a wonderful winning goal!
Mbuku strikes it straight at Zidane
Poor from Mbuku, who bursts forward and cuts inside but opts to shoot rather than trying to find a team-mate. Weak and straight down the throat of Zidane.
Penalties looming large
Luca Zidane takes a goal kick for Algeria, knowing a shoot-out is surely on the way unless there is a hugely dramatic late goal. His dad, football legend and World Cup winner Zinedine, is in the stands. No pressure, kid.
The final changes for Algeria now
Off come Boudaoui and Chaibi, on come Boulbina and Zerrouki. Zerrouki for Boudaoui in central midfield, Boulbina likely to move onto the left side in place of Chaibi. Both could be used as penalty takers.
Mpasi saves from Chaibi! And then Bounedjah!
A clear chance! Finally! Chancel Mbemba looks like he's struggling with a knock but Algeria play on, as is their right, and Amoura finds Chaibi in space inside the box. He fires it towards the near post but Mpasi gets down low to parry it away! From the second phase, Bounedjah scampers into the box and cuts inside before shooting for the bottom-left corner... but Mpasi denies him again! Big save.
Moutoussamy limps off
Yep, Moutoussamy's day is done. Midfielder Charles Pickel comes on in DR Congo's last change. Algeria have two subs left.
Cramps again
Samuel Moutoussamy, who has done a whole lot of work today, sits down after a pass and holds his hands up. His game looks like it is done. Clear cramp for the defensive midfielder. The DRC physios come on to offer him some treatment.
106' Algeria 0-0 DR Congo
Michel-Ange Balikwisha trips the flying Anis Hadj Moussa and is a bit fortunate to avoid a yellow. Algeria have the free kick from the right. A good opportunity. It comes to nothing.
SECOND HALF OF EXTRA TIME: Algeria 0-0 DR Congo
Back into the action in Rabat. Penalties are a quarter of an hour away if neither side can find a goal.
No goals yet
Still goalless. A stark lack of goals. Goals conspicuous by their absence. We've played so long, I think I've forgotten what goals look like or whether goals are theoretically possible. Do goals even exist? Do we exist? What is life? Anyway, second half of extra time is coming up.
HALF TIME IN EXTRA TIME: Algeria 0-0 DR Congo
There's the break in extra time. 15 more minutes incoming.
Algeria with a free kick
The resulting set piece is bent in by Hadj Moussa, Bensebaini heads it powerfully on goal but it's straight at Mpasi. Which means...
Mbemba struggling
Chancel Mbemba looks shaky here, which is not often the case at all. A loose first touch falls for Bounedjah, Mbemba can't put his foot in on a booking and so Edo Kayembe slides in desperately and catches Amoura on the boot. Amoura has been in the wars, the poor kid. Yellow card for Kayembe. Amoura getting some treatment. The pause in play sees Algerian fans waving their phones from side to side with their torches on. One minute added on at the end of the first half of extra time.
Close for Algeria!
It's all happening now. Amoura barges over Mbuku, who had cut inside from the right, looks like a foul but we play on and it's played up to Bounedjah. Mbemba gets too tight, is rolled by the 34-year-old and has to let go otherwise he'll get a second yellow card and be sent off. So Bounedjah races in on goal, out to Amoura, crossed in from the left, the stretching Bounedjah nearly gets there but Mpasi collects safely. But he drops it again! And is lucky that a team-mate nudged it back to him in the nick of time. In the end, he wins a soft free kick as an Algerian attacker tried to poke the loose ball home. Never a foul!
Bounedjah smashes it wide
Into triple figures for minutes played and Bounedjah sprints down the left before firing it wide from a tight angle. Chancel Mbemba is booked after he stopped Mohamed Amoura running past him off the ball with a high elbow into Amoura's neck/throat area. Mbemba protests his case but that was pretty cheeky and fully warranted a yellow, even if he is much taller than Amoura, which offers some mitigation as to where his arm landed. Yellow cards like London buses: we waited ages for the first one and now they're all coming at once!
Balikwisha earns another yellow card
End-to-end now as Algeria and DR Congo tire, leaving more spaces as the press becomes less intense. Moutoussamy makes a tackle at the edge of the box, Mbuku overruns it and as he falls he catches Bensebaini, who might have jarred his knee. Abdelli brings it forward, Amoura crosses from the left, headed away as far as Hadj Moussa, who is tackled by Balikwisha and slides in in retaliation. Foul, free kick, yellow card.
Nigeria must be delighted
Not only did the Super Eagles dispatch yesterday's opponents Mozambique with minimum fuss, even taking off some of their key players early for a rest given they were well ahead, they have an extra day's rest to the winner of this match, who they will play in the quarter-final. Bet Nigeria are glad to have their feet up right now as these two sides battle it out in extra time for two hours minimum.
The first yellow card of the game!
Rafik Belghali is booked after flying into a tackle on sub Michel-Ange Balikwisha.
