Aymen Mahious scored his third winning goal of the African Nations Championship to take hosts Algeria into the semi-finals with a last-gasp 1-0 win over the Ivory Coast on Friday. The referee initially ignored added-time appeals for a foul, but changed his decision to a penalty after reviewing the incident on the VAR pitchside monitor. Mahious, scorer of the only goals in group victories over Libya and Ethiopia, calmly slotted the 96th-minute spot-kick into the corner of the net while goalkeeper Ayayi Folly barely moved. A solitary goal always seemed likely to settle a close, physical encounte…