🎥 Arnautovic wins it for Austria 👏! Jordan, historic goal but beaten | OneFootball

Ralf Rangnick’s Austria answers the call. The Red-White-Red national team began its World Cup campaign with a win — hard-fought but valuable — against Jordan, making its historic first-ever appearance at the World Cup. At the San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, there was no shortage of entertainment, with goals, VAR incidents and disallowed strikes.

The match was unlocked in the early stages thanks to a fine curling right-footed strike from Schmid that gave Jordanian goalkeeper Laila no chance.

Jordan, however, showed it had not made it here by accident and responded at the start of the second half with an even more beautiful — as well as historic — goal. 

Firsts for Jordan and Arnautovic

With this morning’s goal, in fact, Olwan became the first Jordan national team player to score in a World Cup finals match. The move started with Al Rawabdeh winning the ball back in midfield and was carried forward by Olwan’s run. Reaching the edge of the area, he unleashed a stunning curling right-footed effort that kissed the inside of the post and went in. Schlager could do nothing and stood rooted to the spot.

In the second half, though, Rangnick — once a Milan target — made the right adjustments, deciding to rely on the experience of Arnautovic. The striker’s introduction changed the face of the game. By the 67th minute, the 1989-born forward had also found Austria’s go-ahead goal. VAR, however, spotted a handball by Posch, leading to the goal being disallowed.

The 2-1 was in the air, though, and it arrived just a few minutes later. Arnautovic was again at the heart of it, as from a corner he forced the unfortunate Al-Arab to turn the ball into his own net.

Then, deep into stoppage time, the former Inter man also enjoyed the moment of scoring his first-ever World Cup goal from the penalty spot, his 48th in an Austria shirt.

It ended 3-1 to a solid Austria side, which joins Argentina at the top of Group J.

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