The Nepali national football team is facing 91st ranked Asian powerhouse Jordan in the FIFA rankings tonight under the third selection phase of the AFC Asian Cup 2023. The game to be held at the Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium in Kuwait on Thrusday will start at 1 am (i.e. Wednesday night) Nepali time. You can watch the live broadcast of today's match between Nepal and Jordan through Jordan National football team youtube channel as well as from Kuwaiti sports channel KTV Sports. The link of the said channel is placed at the bottom of this article.
Tough opponents in the group:
The Nepali team, which entered the third round by passing the second round under the joint selection of FIFA World Cup and Asian Cup, is now going to compete against strong Jordan in the final selection of AFC Asian Cup to be held in 2023 next year. Eleven senior players including Anjan Bista, Bimal Gharti Magar,Sujal Shrestha,Bishal Rai,Suman Lama,Tej Tamang,Bishal Shrestha and Ananta Tamang will not be present for the match against Jordan. Similarly, former captain and goalkeeper Kiran Chemjong, who is also out of the team.In place of him forward Nawayug Shrestha will be captaining the young Nepali team.
Against the Jordan whom Nepal are facing today has a very bad history against.They are still in the same group for the fifth time in a row from the 2014 World Cup qualifiers to the 2022 World Cup qualifiers to the 2023 Asian Cup qualifiers. Nepal has not beaten Jordan once in the previous five games between them. Nepal and Jordan were in the same group in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Jordan was held to a 1-1 draw.
Head to head & match preview
During the the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Nepal and Jordan were first time in the same group under which Nepal lost 9-0 in the first leg held in Jordan and Nepal held Jordan to a 1-1 draw in the second leg at the Dasharath Stadium. Nepal had lost 3-0 in both the legs in the earlier stages of AFC asian Cup and world cup second selection held in Kuwait last year. Therefore, this time the meeting will be even more difficult for the current new Nepali team which has a bad history against Jordan. In the absence of more than a playing xi sets of senior players, the immature Nepali team wants to start the selection process by stopping Jordan. While Anyway, with the intention of making a place in the Asian Cup, the Jordan, wants to collect 3 important points by defeating Nepal with a heavy goal.
Nepal vs Jordan Live details:
Nepal vs Srilanka previous encounters:
The Nepali national football team, currently in Qatar to prepare for the Asian Cup qualifiers, played an unofficial friendly match against 205th-ranked Srilanka on 31st Tuesday. Both Nepal and Srilanka are at Qatar for their preparation ahead of Asian cup qualifiers. Srilanka is the very opponent Nepal faced against at the group stage of Saff Championship 2021. It was an absolute electrifying game from both the sides where Nepal defeated Srilanka by 3-2.
Head to head
It was 19th encounter between Nepal and Srilanka this time. Out of 18 games played between them before Nepal has won only 4 times while Srilanka won 6 times & 8 games has been drawn. Nepal in absence of 11 senior players including Captain and goalkeeper Kiran Chemjong, are setting up a strong team ahead of qualifiers. For that they drew against Timor Leste U-23 by a score line of 2-2 on Saturday. While Srilanka with forwards Dillon De Silva(England) and Hamilton(England) looks very dangerous on their attack. This time Nepal played 1-1 draw against the Lankans lions.