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Ammon News - AMMAN (Jordan Times) – Jordan’s national women’s football team will take on Uzbekistan Sunday with the final place at the 2014 AFC Women’s Asian Cup at stake after they hammered Kuwait 21-0 on Friday.

The national team, dubbed “Nashmiyat” had a strong start by scoring the opener in the third minute by Shahnaz Jebreen.

During the match, held at the Amman International Stadium, Jordan found themselves 6-0 up at the 20-minute mark, with Maysa Jbarah netting a three-minute hat-trick (16th, 18th and 19th minutes) punctuated by Stephanie Al Naber’s 17th minute strike, and Abeer Al Nahar getting the first of her six goals (20th minute), according to the website of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

Jbarah scored the next two goals (28th and 32nd) and completed her second hat-trick one minute into first-half stoppage-time after Naber (35th and 38th) and Nahar (43rd) had also added to their personal tallies as Jordan went into the interval with a 12-0 lead, according to AFC.

As the second half went on, Jordanian women were determined to score more to be atop the group with a goal difference over Uzbekistan which beat Kuwait and Lebanon 18-0 and 4-0 respectively.

Nahar took her individual total to six with four more goals (56th, 71st, 84th and 90+1) while Jbarah went to score her seventh and eighth in the 53rd and 81st minutes respectively.

Naber struck in the 72nd minute for her sixth goal in two games following her brace in Jordan’s 5-0 win over Lebanon with substitute Luna Al Masri, who was also on target in the Group A opener, getting her name on the score sheet in the 78th minute, eight minutes after Jebreen completed her brace.

The win took Jordan top of Group A on goal difference ahead of Uzbekistan. The two undefeated sides will meet on Sunday to qualify for the 2014 finals which will take place in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam from May 14 to 25 next year.