Match Report
Iraq (1st, 18 pts) visited Jordan (1st, 13 pts) with 5 points between them. Iraq ranked just 43rd in the league on five-round form despite their 1st table position. Against a league average of 1.4 goals per team per game, Jordan ran at 2.67 scored and 0.67 conceded, Iraq at 2.83 and 0.33.
Iraq had gone 5 games without a win. The last-five ledger: Jordan 8/15, Iraq 1/15.
The head-to-head ledger counts 10 games: 3 Jordan wins, 2 for Iraq, 5 draws, at 2.5 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 40% of those meetings.
The match was played at Amman International Stadium in Amman (capacity 5,000). It was 0-0 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 0-1 full-time score.




