Austria boss Ralf Rangnick said it was “mad” to suggest there was any agreement in place to engineer a scripted draw.
He insisted the unpredictable final 15 minutes of the game in Kansas City clearly showed neither side was looking to repeat the ‘Disgrace of Gijon’.
“In this match, when you have a 3-3, nobody can assume that it was an agreement, especially after what we saw during the last 90 seconds,” said Rangnick.
“If, with three minutes to play, somebody had said this would happen, you would have told them they were mad.
“I’ve been a coach for about 40 years and I don’t even remember a match that had such a dramatic course and such an unexpected trajectory.
“Most people anticipated a 0-0 or 1-1, and now it’s 3-3. It’s incredible – the dressing room is madness. If Alfred Hitchcock had written such a drama, I probably would have said he was completely mad.”
Algeria manager Vladimir Petkovic also dismissed talk of any arrangement.
“I’m extremely happy that, at the end, it was football that won, that prevailed – 3-3 as a score says it all,” he added.
Austria face Spain in the last 32 in Los Angeles on Thursday, 2 July (20:00 BST), while Algeria take on Switzerland in Vancouver on Friday, 3 July (04:00 BST).
