Arnautovic scores penalty as Austria beat World Cup debutants Jordan 3-1

Austria were fixed a scare by FIFA World Cup 2026 debutants Jordan, earlier securing a win, which was rounded disconnected by a punishment successful stoppage clip by seasoned guardant Marko Arnautovic.

Austria marked their ⁠return to ⁠the World Cup aft a 28-year lack with a tense 3-1 triumph ⁠over debutants Jordan successful their Group J opener connected Tuesday, relying ⁠on a second-half ain extremity and a last-gasp punishment from Marko Arnautovic to assertion the 3 points.

Austria took the pb connected 20 minutes done ‌a Romano Schmid thunderbolt, but were pegged backmost 5 minutes aft the interruption erstwhile striker Ali Olwan recovered abstraction successful the country and fired a sizzling changeable wrong the acold ⁠post.

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Austria’s seasoned people antheral ⁠Arnautovic slammed a debased changeable into the nett from a goalmouth scramble successful the 69th minute, but it was ruled retired for handball by teammate ⁠Stefan Posch pursuing a ⁠VAR review.

Seven minutes later, though, Austria were celebrating again arsenic Yazan Al-Arab deflected a Marcel Sabitzer ‌corner into his ain net, earlier Arnautovic slotted location a punishment heavy into ‌stoppage ‌time aft Saleem Obeid was penalised for handball.

Victory lifted Austria to 2nd spot successful Group J, down reigning World Cup winners Argentina, who took the apical spot aft Lionel Messi’s magical hat-trick steered them to a 3-0 triumph implicit Algeria earlier connected Tuesday. Jordan beryllium 3rd successful the group, portion Algeria are bottom.

Marko Arnautovic applauds fans aft the team’s 3-1 triumph successful the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group J lucifer betwixt Austria and Jordan astatine San Francisco Bay Area Stadium connected June 16, 2026, successful Santa Clara, California [Stu Forster/Getty Images/AFP]

The FIFA World Cup begins connected June 11. You tin travel the enactment connected Al Jazeera’s dedicated World Cup 2026 page with each the latest news, lucifer build-up and unrecorded substance commentary, and support up to day with radical standings, real-time lucifer results and schedules.