Jordan among Asia’s best

A celebration took place on the 11^th of November, 2011 when Jordan won against Singapore in football 3-0. The Jordanian Team said that they deserved to be rated as one of Asia’s top teams.

An important figure whom attended the game was the national football manager and FIFA’s vice presidents, Prince Ali bin Al Hussein who came to Singapore’s Jalan Besar Stadium.

Basically, the game went a little like this: Jordan went ahead when striker Abdallah Deeb scored in the 11^th minute by heading in a cross from about nine meters in front of 40,000 fans.  In the 54^th minute Anas Bani Yaseen beat the goal keeper of Singapore and scores another goal to make it 2-0 before Ahmad Hayel added the third. Ten minutes later, the team won by beating the Singapore goal keeper with a left-footed shot from 16 meters.

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“I was very happy tonight, my team played very well, and had a good result and the Jordan team is now closer than any more time to the fourth round.” Jordan’s Coach Adnan Hamad said.
He also added, “I think the result is fair…Singapore is actually a good team but unfortunately they played against a powerful team like Jordan.”

Singapore came to life and had a superb chance to gain in at the 19th minute, but Muhammad Safuwan's header bounced off the pitch and over the crossbar. Again, they were close to score a goal almost immediately after the second half re-start when Abdallah struck the crossbar after meeting an in swinging cross in right front of goal. Singapore had the ball in the net in the 76th minute but Shahril Ishak's thunderous strike was ruled out for offside by the referee.

While Jordan now has nine points from three games, Singapore remains on zero and may have to win all three remaining fixtures to reach the next round.