{"id":79952,"date":"2025-07-09T19:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=79952"},"modified":"2025-07-09T19:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:46:58","slug":"pakistan-marches-to-semi-final-of-mens-u18-asia-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-marches-to-semi-final-of-mens-u18-asia-cup-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan marches to semi-final of Men\u2019s U18 Asia Cup 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAZHOU: Pakistan marches into the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-crowned-champions-at-asian-youth-girl-netball-event\/\">Men\u2019s U18 Asia Cup<\/a> 2025 semi-finals after beating host China 2-1 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan got the upper hand in the 11th minute of the game as forward Hassan Shahbaz scored a well-placed field<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-qualifies-for-nations-hockey-cup-semifinal-on-goal-difference\/\"> goal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both Pakistan and China lost penalty corners twice, failing to convert them into goals till the interval of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Hanzala scored the second goal of the game for the green shirts in the third quarter, providing an edge to the visiting side.<\/p>\n<p>Jiaxing Lin converted a penalty corner in the same minute to reduce the deficit to 2-1. The result left Pakistan at the top of Group A, having collected 12 points with a goal difference of +21.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout their campaign, they scored 25 goals and conceded just four.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Pakistan Under-18 Hockey\u00a0team reached the semi-final of the Asia Cup by defeating Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan secured an easy win by a commanding\u00a06-3 victory\u00a0over Bangladesh and bagged first position in its group.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah Awan and Ali Hunzala hit the goal post two times, while Asam Haider and Atif Ali contributed one goal each.<\/p>\n<p>The opponent\u2019s goals were scored by Ismail Hussain and Din Islam, who netted twice and once respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAZHOU: Pakistan marches into the Men\u2019s U18 Asia Cup 2025 semi-finals after beating host China 2-1 on Wednesday. Pakistan got the upper hand in the 11th minute of the game as forward Hassan Shahbaz scored a well-placed field goal. Both Pakistan and China lost penalty corners twice, failing to convert them into goals till the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":79953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30007],"class_list":["post-79952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-mens-u18-asia-cup-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79952","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79956,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79952\/revisions\/79956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}