{"id":80116,"date":"2025-07-11T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=80116"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:14:13","slug":"pakistan-to-take-on-malaysia-in-semi-final-of-u-18-hockey-asia-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-to-take-on-malaysia-in-semi-final-of-u-18-hockey-asia-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to take on Malaysia in semi-final of U-18 Hockey Asia Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAZHOU: Pakistan will take on Malaysia in the semi-finals of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-qualifies-for-nations-hockey-cup-semifinal-on-goal-difference\/\">U-18 Hockey Asia Cup<\/a> on Friday (today).<\/p>\n<p>In the final match of the group, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanhockeyfederation.com\/\">Green Shirts<\/a> defeated hosts China 2-1 in a thrilling encounter to remain unbeaten.<\/p>\n<p>The team had earlier won against <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-announces-15-members-squad-for-bangladesh-tour\/\">Bangladesh<\/a>, Sri Lanka, and Hong Kong. Pakistan is hopeful of reaching the final, the other semi-final will be played between Japan and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in a group match, Pakistan got the upper hand in the 11th minute of the game as forward Hassan Shahbaz scored a well-placed field\u00a0goal.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAZHOU: Pakistan will take on Malaysia in the semi-finals of the U-18 Hockey Asia Cup on Friday (today). In the final match of the group, the Green Shirts defeated hosts China 2-1 in a thrilling encounter to remain unbeaten. The team had earlier won against Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Hong Kong. Pakistan is hopeful of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":80117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30043],"class_list":["post-80116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-u-18-hockey-asia-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80116","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=80116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80118,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80116\/revisions\/80118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}