Austria v Jordan: World Cup 2026 – live

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Hello and welcome to unrecorded sum of the World Cup lucifer betwixt Austria and Jordan at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium. Kick-off successful this Group J crippled is 9pm local/12am EDT/5am BST/2pm AEST – aliases 6am CEST/7am EEST for those watching from nan homelands of nan competing teams.

Reigning world champions Argentina are wide expected to apical nan group that besides includes Algeria but nan remaining spot – aliases 2 – to advancement to nan knockouts is very overmuch up for grabs.

The 2 sides gathering coming successful Santa Clara are possibly among nan first beneficiaries of nan description of nan tourney to 48 teams. Austria return to nan expansive shape for nan first clip since 1998 and for their eighth sojourn overall, while Jordan make their World Cup debut.

Austria’s 28-year absence from nan showpiece arena ended erstwhile they topped their Uefa qualifying group up of Bosnia and Herzegovina and avoided nan play of nan playoffs. Veteran striker Marko Arnautović was captious to nan No 24-ranked side’s qualification pinch 8 goals, while Marcel Sabitzer remains their main imaginative outlet. The high-intensity, manic property that has travel to specify coach Ralf Rangnick’s various reigns crossed clubs and state will beryllium a characteristic arsenic Austria activity to power possession and territory against nan lowest-ranked broadside successful Group J.

Jordan, connected nan different hand, person booked their spot astatine nan World Cup for nan first clip pinch a gameplan centred astir a coagulated defence and counterattacks. The No 65-ranked broadside began their march towards a world tourney debut erstwhile reaching nan Asian Cup last for nan first clip successful 2023 pinch a daze triumph complete South Korea successful nan semis. Jordan paid nan value for giving distant 3 penalties successful a 3-1 conclusion by Qatar successful nan decider but carried their momentum into nan World Cup qualifiers. Al-Nashama (The Chivalrous Ones) were particularly awesome playing distant from location arsenic they booked their World Cup summons pinch an automatic qualification spot erstwhile 2nd successful nan group down South Korea.

I’ll beryllium backmost soon pinch nan line-ups and squad news – and nan latest from nan World Cup. In nan meantime, get successful touch pinch immoderate questions, thoughts and predictions. You tin shoot maine an email, aliases find maine connected Bluesky @martinpegan.bsky.social. Let’s get into it!