Attribute selector does not take into account the elements contained in it

Question

I have a line of HTML code:

<a href="/posts" class="nav__link" data-link><i class="fa fa-file"></i><span>Pages</span></a>

and then I catch the event, cancel the transition by the link using my handler:

document.body.addEventListener("click", e => {
        if (e.target.matches("[data-link]")) {
            e.preventDefault();
            navigateTo(e.target.href);
        }
    });

As long as there is only text in the a tag, everything is fine, but as soon as nested span, i, and so on tags appear in it, this code does not work when you click on them.

How can I change this JS code so that it also applies to nested elements?