{"id":24981,"date":"2026-06-17T15:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=24981"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:09:32","slug":"austria-return-from-long-world-cup-absence-with-nervy-3-1-win-over-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/06\/17\/austria-return-from-long-world-cup-absence-with-nervy-3-1-win-over-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria Return From Long World Cup Absence With Nervy 3-1 Win Over Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">Austria marked their return to the World Cup after \u200ba 28-year absence with a tense \u200c3-1 win over debutants Jordan in their Group J opener on Tuesday, relying on a second-half \u200bown goal and a last-gasp \u200bpenalty to claim the three points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Austria \u2060took the lead on 20 minutes \u200bthrough a Romano Schmid thunderbolt, but were \u200bpegged back five minutes after the break when striker Ali Olwan found space in the \u200barea and fired a sizzling shot \u200binside the far post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Austria\u2019s veteran target man Marko Arnautovic \u200cslammed \u2060a low shot into the net from a goalmouth scramble in the 69th minute but it was ruled out \u200bfor handball \u200bby \u2060teammate Stefan Posch following a VAR review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Seven minutes later, though, \u200bAustria were celebrating again as \u200bYazan \u2060Al\u2011Arab deflected a Marcel Sabitzer corner into his own net, before Arnautovic slotted \u2060home \u200ba penalty deep into \u200bstoppage time after Saleem Obeid was penalised for handball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austria marked their return to the World Cup after \u200ba 28-year absence with a tense \u200c3-1 win over debutants Jordan in their Group J opener on Tuesday, relying on a second-half \u200bown goal and a last-gasp \u200bpenalty to claim the three points. Austria \u2060took the lead on 20 minutes \u200bthrough a Romano Schmid thunderbolt, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24985,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981\/revisions\/24985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}