Africa Cup of Nations update

Holders Algeria, Mali, Senegal and Tunisia offer an already familiar feel to the next Africa Cup of Nations finals line-up after they secured qualification with two rounds of preliminaries still to play.

But other heavyweight contenders like Ghana and Nigeria were tripped up in their bid for early qualification, although are still expected to reach the 24-team finals in Cameroon in early 2022.

Nigeria dramatically let slip a four-goal lead, all scored in the opening 29