Jordan maintains its hopes of qualifying for the World Cup in a draw with South Korea

Jordan maintained its hopes of qualifying for the 2026 FIFA World Cup with a 1-1 draw with its host, South Korea, today, Tuesday, in the eighth round of the second group of the Asian qualifiers.

South Korea started the match by pressing Jordan’s defense since the first minutes and almost scored the goal of progress early after Huang In-bureta launched a powerful shot from outside the penalty area, but Jordan’s goalkeeper Abu Laila succeeded in addressing it.

Lee Jay-Song opened the scoring in the fifth minute of the start with a shot from inside the penalty area after a corner kick by Commander Sun Hyung-Min.

The Jordanian team sought to tie before the end of the first half, to crowd its attempts to succeed in the 30th minute, after Mahmoud Al -Mardhi launched a shot from inside the penalty area that hit one of the defenders of the landowner to live in the net.

The two teams shared control of the remaining minutes of the first half in search of the goal of progress, but without danger to the goals.

The second half witnessed full control of South Korea, and almost scored the second goal in the 80th minute with the head of the head of Yang Hyun-Joon, but Abu Laila brilliantly tackled the ball.

After that, the referee resorted to the technique of the assistant video referee to review the calculation of a penalty for the owner of the land after a hand touch to Yazan Al -Arab, the Jordanian player who won the man of the match, but he made his decision not to calculate it.

South Korea, which tied the same result for the third match, retained the top of the second group after raising its score to 16 points.

While Jordan reached 13 points in second place, one point behind Iraq, who is third, who is playing later today with the Palestinian team, which is seized with three points.

Kuwait, who has fifth place with five points, will host the seven points in the fourth place in the later time.