MALABO, Equatorial Guinea: Guinea has won the drawing of lots for a spot in the African Cup of Nations quarterfinals.

The No. 2, printed on a piece of paper and stuffed inside a green ball, was drawn out of a bowl Thursday by a team representative at a hotel in Malabo. The representative from Mali drew the No. 3. The numbers decided the placings in Group D.

Guinea will next face Ghana on Sunday in the quarterfinals, while Mali has been eliminated.

The two teams were forced to draw lots after finishing all three of their group matches 1-1. The Ivory Coast won the group by beating Cameroon 1-0 on Wednesday.

Max Gradel scored the only goal of the match at Malabo Stadium after collecting a pass from Siaka Tiene that went through the legs of Cameroon forward Edgar Salli. He then ran toward the middle of the field before unleashing a hard shot that flew past a diving Fabrice Ondoa.

The result gives the Ivorians first place in the group and a quarterfinal match against Algeria on Sunday in Malabo. In Sunday’s early match at the same venue, the lucky team from Thursday’s draw will face Ghana.

Ivory Coast coach Herve Renard, who has worked with several teams around the continent, coached in Algeria a few years ago, so his next opponent is no stranger.

“I spent a very, very good time over there, and now I have to make them cry,” Renard said. “It’s just a joke. I have a lot of friends in Algeria.”

The Ivory Coast was playing its second straight match without Gervinho, the Roma forward who was given a straight red card in the opening game against Guinea and was then handed a two-match suspension.

But Gradel has been getting things done up front among a team that includes Yaya Toure, Wilfried Bony and Salomon Kalou. The Saint-Etienne midfielder has scored two goals in two matches. On Saturday, he came on as a substitute and scored an 87th-minute equalizer in the 1-1 draw with Mali.

Cameroon again played an up-tempo game, but rarely threatened the Ivory Coast goal. One of the best chances of the first half for the Cameroonians came when Salli shot over the bar in the final seconds. More chances came in the second half as the Ivorians sat back, but there was no finishing touch.

“I think the Ivory Coast took advantage of a little mistake we made in the first half to score the goal,” Cameroon coach Volker Finke said. “In the first half we had two or three really good chances but didn’t score, and that is the reason we lost.”