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Jordan Defeats Nepal

June 8, Kathmandu- Jordan has defeated the Nepali national football team in the seventh match of the World Cup and Asian Cup qualifiers. In a one-sided match, Jordan climbed to second place in the group with a 3-0 victory.

With this victory, Jordan has reached 13 points in 6 games while Kuwait is in the third place with 10 points in the same game. In the next match to be played today, Australia, which is at the top with 15 points in 5 matches, will play against pointless Chinese Taipei. Nepal is in the fourth place with 6 points.

If Nepal is to advance to the third round of the Asian Cup qualifiers, they will have to wait for the result of the other group by winning at least the next game. Despite the defeat, Nepal will be able to make it to the Asian Cup qualifiers through the playoffs. Nepal will now face Australia in the next match on Friday. The game will start at 9:45 pm Nepali time.

In the 14th minute of the game on Monday, Jordan's Mohamed Suleiman shot from a distance of about 25 yards and Kiran made a great save by diving to his left. In the 21st minute, Pujan Uparkoti lost the ball inside the penalty area but defender Ananta Tamang cleared the low cross inside the 6 yard box.