Group J clash Austria vs Jordan saw the European team predictably earn victory against the first timers in Jordan, but it wasn’t all one way traffic as Austria’s first half lead was neutralised with Jordan’s first ever World Cup goal, making it every debutant at the World Cup has scored so far. Austria hit the lead 2-1 twice, one being called back for VAR overruled handball. The win was sealed with a penalty to Marko Arnautovic, whose goals was the one disallowed earlier.
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This Austria vs Jordan Group J match is one with two teams with little recent World Cup experience, Austria haven’t been at a World Cup since, so the hills haven’t alive to World Cup football for a while. This is Jordan’s first World Cup, a rare, happy story to come out of the middle east recently. Hopefully they won’t be Petra-fied to be there. They’ll probably get dismissed as whipping boys through ignorance, but Austria hardly feel that much better. A real candidate for mini match.
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STATS SUMMARY
RATINGS
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| Austria | 67.3% | Jordan | 32.7% |
BARELY INTERESTING STATS
Austria haven’t been at a World Cup since 1998, where they didn’t win a game, but played in two 1-1 draws and lost the other game 2-1.
Austria’s first opening game record at the World Cup is W4 D1 L2.
Austria have never played an Asian nation at the World Cup in their 30 matches.
Austria’s record v Asian nations overall is great – W6 D3. They have conceded just one goal in those nine games – the first one v Iran in a 5-1 win.
Jordan are winless in their last seven internationals v European nations – D1 L6.
MATCH PREDICTION
AUSTRIA 2 JORDAN 0
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