{"id":77920,"date":"2025-06-18T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=77920"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:50:21","slug":"pakistan-qualifies-for-nations-hockey-cup-semifinal-on-goal-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-qualifies-for-nations-hockey-cup-semifinal-on-goal-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan qualifies for Nations Hockey Cup semifinal on goal difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan have qualified for the semi-finals of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-excluded-from-sultan-azlan-shah-hockey-cup-2025\/\">FIH Nations Hockey Cup<\/a> on the basis of better goal difference. The semi-final match against France is scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia needed to beat Japan by a two-goal margin to advance in the ongoing tournament in Kuala Lumpur. However, Japan scored a goal in the last four minutes to clear Pakistan\u2019s way to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Both Pakistan and Malaysia finished the group stage with four points each, but Pakistan advanced on a better goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan had earlier lost to New Zealand in a close match by a scoreline of 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>For Pakistan, Abdul Rahman scored two consecutive goals in the 13th and 14th minutes while the third goal was scored by Rana Waheed Ashraf in the 28th minute.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Scott Coslet scored a hat-trick and Nicewood scored another goal to seal the victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan have qualified for the semi-finals of the FIH Nations Hockey Cup on the basis of better goal difference. The semi-final match against France is scheduled for Friday. Malaysia needed to beat Japan by a two-goal margin to advance in the ongoing tournament in Kuala Lumpur. However, Japan scored a goal in the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":78017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29559,16470],"class_list":["post-77920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fih-nations-hockey-cup","tag-pakistan-hockey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78018,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920\/revisions\/78018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}