Faisali play Wihdat in highly anticipated match

AMMAN — It’s Wihdat versus Faisali on Friday — the most anticipated match of the season — in the upcoming 16th week of the 64th Jordan Professional League kicking off on Thursday.

Wihdat are still in the lead, one point ahead of Faisali. The titleholders beat Hussein 2-1 to maintain their lead while Faisali beat Shabab Urdun 2-1 and jumped to second. 

Faisali and Wihdat both played the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup last week when Faisali were held 0-0 with Turkmenistan’s Istiklol Dushanbe in Group B while Wihdat started off with a 2-0 win over Bahrain’s Hidd in Group A, following their elimination from the Asian Champions League where they lost 2-1 to Saudi Arabia’s Ittihad Jeddah. 

Ahli are now third after they beat Jazira 2-1 and next play Kufrsoum while Shabab Urdun play Sarih. Asala scored their second win 1-0 over Sarih and next play That Ras, who were held 0-0 by Ramtha, who are now 5th and next play 6th placed Jazira.

Ahli are the surprise team of the league this season. After relegation to Division 1 in 2004 for the first time in their history, they were back among the Pro League clubs in 2014, and finished 5th in 2015. They have now made it to the Jordan Cup final against Shabab
Urdun on May 5.

So far this season, Jordan Cup titleholders Faisali beat league titleholders Wihdat 1-0 to win the 33rd Super Cup. Apart from conceding the Super Cup and elimination from the Jordan Cup, Wihdat now have the league title left for grabs. The team has been league champ for the past two consecutive years while Faisali finished at a disappointing 7th place as runner-up and third places went to Jazira and Ramtha.

Standings
(Previous position in parenthesis)