{"id":506701,"date":"2026-06-23T07:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/506701\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:01:13","slug":"amine-gouiri-pounces-to-give-algeria-victory-and-condemn-jordan-to-early-world-cup-exit-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/506701\/","title":{"rendered":"Amine Gouiri pounces to give Algeria victory and condemn Jordan to early World Cup exit | World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Algeria stormed back to beat Jordan 2-1 and eliminate the World Cup<\/a> debutants with a match to spare \u2060thanks to second-half goals \u2060from substitute Nadhir \u200bBenbouali and Amine Gouiri.<\/p>\n

Benbouali\u2019s header cancelled out Nizar Al-Rashdan\u2019s first-half opener and Gouiri poked home in a goalmouth scramble eight minutes from time to revive Algeria\u2019s \u2060campaign after their opening 3-0 loss to Argentina.<\/p>\n

The victory put Algeria level with Austria on three points in Group J, while ensuring defending champions Argentina will go through to the \u2060next round as group winners following their 2-0 win over the Austrians earlier on Monday.<\/p>\n

Algeria coach Vladimir Petkovic put \u200bveteran attacker Riyad Mahrez in his starting XI after \u200cbenching him against Argentina, and \u200che proved influential in breaking down a Jordan<\/a> team that defended in numbers and were quick on the \u200ccounterattack.<\/p>\n

Mahrez blew an early chance when he ran onto a sublime lofted pass from Hicham Boudaoui but lost the ball under his feet. He then latched onto another long ball from Boudaoui to be one-on-one with Yazeed Abulaila but the Jordan goalkeeper got a hand to his chipped shot.<\/p>\n

Jordan, who lost their opener 3-1 to Austria, went ahead in the 36th minute following clever link-up play and a touch of fortune \u200cwhen Algeria midfielder Ramiz Zerrouki turned the ball over in defence.<\/p>\n

Musa al-Taamari\u2019s shot went sideways to Al-Rashdan, who drilled home first-time into the bottom right corner.<\/p>\n

Petkovic brought on Nabil Bentaleb \u200band Benbouali at the break, and Algeria lifted their intensity.<\/p>\n

Nadhir Benbouali profile<\/a><\/p>\n

Surrounded by Jordan defenders, Benbouali rose highest to meet a Mahrez corner and sent a glancing header bouncing into the corner of the net in the 69th minute.<\/p>\n

Thirteen minutes later, Algeria took the lead from another set piece.<\/p>\n

Substitute Anis Hadj Moussa curled in a corner kick and a deflection off Jordan \u2060goalscorer Al-Rashdan allowed a gleeful Gouiri to poke in the winner.<\/p>\n

For Algeria, it sets \u200bthe stage for a grudge match \u200bagainst Austria, 44 years after the \u201cDisgrace \u200bof Gijon\u201d.<\/p>\n

At the 1982 World Cup, Austria and West Germany were alleged to have colluded \u200bin a group match \u200cagainst each other to \u200bensure both would advance \u200bat the expense of eliminated Algeria.<\/p>\n

West Germany and Austria denied wrongdoing and Fifa cleared them.<\/p>\n

Algeria can take a measure of revenge against Austria when they face them in Kansas City on Saturday, while Jordan face Argentina and Lionel Messi, who has scored all five of their goals at the World Cup so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Algeria stormed back to beat Jordan 2-1 and eliminate the World Cup debutants with a match to spare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-506701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}