Top ranked Algeria under heavy threat, Equatorial Guinea to play Ghana

Ghana's Gyan celebrates his goal against Portugal during their 2014 World Cup Group G soccer match at the Brasilia national stadium in Brasilia

Algeria's position as Africa's top ranked team comes under severe threat on Sunday as they face a powerful Ivory Coast team in the last of the African Nations Cup quarter-finals.

The meeting between the two heavyweights is preceded at Nuevo Estadio de Malabo by Ghana's game against Guinea, whose path to the last eight was secured after a rare drawing of lots following a dead heat with Mali in their group.