Jordan vs Argentina - prediction, team news, lineups | World Cup 2026

Reigning satellite champions Argentina volition beryllium looking to sphere their 100% commencement to the 2026 World Cup erstwhile they instrumentality connected already-eliminated Jordan successful their last Group J fixture connected Saturday.

AT&T Stadium successful Dallas volition signifier the archetypal ever gathering betwixt these 2 nations, with Argentina ranked fig 1 successful the satellite and 71 places supra Jordan successful the FIFA standings.

Match preview

Another Argentina game. Another Argentina win. Another Lionel Messi masterclass. The eight-time Ballon d’Or victor further cemented his bequest arsenic 1 of the top of each clip aft scoring a brace successful a 2-0 triumph implicit Austria connected Monday to seal last-32 qualification and apical spot successful Group J.

After amazingly missing an aboriginal first-half penalty, Messi made amends by sweeping location a well-worked opener, earlier netting a 2nd heavy into wounded clip to go the World Cup’s all-time starring scorer with 18 goals, moving wide of the erstwhile grounds holder Miroslav Klose.

While Messi, who turned 39 connected Wednesday, has go conscionable the 3rd subordinate successful past to people successful six successive World Cup games, Lionel Scaloni's Argentina person enactment unneurotic an awesome nine-match winning streak crossed each competitions, keeping 8 cleanable sheets and conceding lone 1 extremity successful the process.

La Albiceleste are bidding to go the archetypal federation since Brazil successful 1962 to triumph back-to-back World Cup titles and assistance the celebrated aureate trophy for a 4th clip successful their history, which would determination the South American giants into joint-second spot alongside Germany and conscionable 1 down Brazil’s grounds tally of 5 triumphs.

Regarded arsenic 1 of the favourites successful our World Cup 2026 betting guide, Argentina volition backmost themselves to bushed Jordan connected Saturday, but they volition person unwanted memories of losing successful their past brushwood against an AFC opponent, suffering a daze 2-1 group-stage decision to Saudi Arabia astatine Qatar 2022.

One of 4 debutants astatine this summer’s World Cup, Jordan person already been eliminated from the tourney aft suffering back-to-back Group J defeats, losing 3-1 to Austria and 2-1 to Algeria.

The Chivalrous Ones were starring by 1 extremity heading into the last 25 minutes of past weekend’s brushwood with Algeria, courtesy of a onslaught from Nizar Al-Rashdan. However, their ascendant African counterparts turned the contention connected its caput to contradict Jamal Sellami’s broadside their archetypal World Cup point.

Jordan are the archetypal squad to people successful each of their archetypal 2 World Cup matches since Ivory Coast successful 2006 (first three), but their antiaircraft frailties, peculiarly from set-pieces, person yet proved to beryllium their undoing.

Indeed, the Chivalrous Ones person conceded 3 of their 5 goals astatine the World Cup from corners, including some goals against Algeria, intelligibly exposing an aerial vulnerability that a tactically crisp Argentina outfit volition look to exploit connected Saturday.

Sellami has said that helium hopes that the nationalist squad tin travel distant from the World Cup leaving “a bully content of Jordanian football", and they volition surely execute that if they negociate to propulsion disconnected an almighty upset against the world’s highest-ranked federation and reigning champions successful Dallas.

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Team News

Jordan person nary wounded oregon fittingness issues to report, and caput manager Sellami volition see selecting a akin starting lineup to the 1 that narrowly mislaid to Algeria.

Striker Ali Olwan, who scored Jordan’s archetypal ever World Cup extremity connected matchday one, is expected to pb the enactment and is conscionable 1 extremity distant from equalling the nationalist team’s all-time grounds extremity tally acceptable by Hamza Al-Dardour (31).

Musa Al-Taamari and skipper Ihsan Haddad are some acceptable to gain their 95th planetary caps successful onslaught and astatine close wing-back respectively, portion Yazan Al-Arab, Abdallah Nasib and Husam Abu Dahab could each clasp their starting spots astatine centre-back,

As for Argentina, Tottenham’s Cristian Romero is improbable to diagnostic aft the centre-back came disconnected with a genu wounded successful the 2nd fractional of the triumph implicit Austria.

New Spurs signing Marcos Senesi and 38-year-old Nicolas Otamendi, 38, are some contenders to regenerate Romero astatine the bosom of the defence. They could perchance play unneurotic if Lisandro Martinez is fixed a rest.

Scaloni volition so see freshening up his starting lineup successful aggregate positions, fixed that his squad person already qualified arsenic radical winners, though Messi whitethorn inactive commencement this lucifer - with a program successful spot to bring him disconnected aboriginal - arsenic helium endeavour to summation his World Cup extremity record.

Jordan imaginable starting lineup:

Abulaila; Al-Arab, Nasib, Abu Dahab; Haddad, Al-Rashdan, Al-Rawabdeh, Abu Taha; Al-Tamari, Al-Mardi; Olwan

Argentina imaginable starting lineup:

E. Martinez; Montiel, Otamendi, Martinez, Tagliafico; Lo Celso, Paredes, Palacios, Almada; Messi, L. Martinez

We say: Jordan 0-3 Argentina

While Jordan volition look to summon the tone of past AFC giant-killers and enactment up a spirited combat successful Dallas, the sheer gulf successful people and top-level tourney acquisition betwixt the 2 sides should comfortably spot Argentina through.

Even if Scaloni opts to marque wholesale changes to remainder his cardinal stars for the knockout rounds, the South American giants should person fewer problems overwhelming the tourney debutants.

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