{"id":80208,"date":"2025-07-12T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=80208"},"modified":"2025-07-12T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T09:25:48","slug":"pakistan-qualifies-for-the-final-of-hockey-mens-u18-asia-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-qualifies-for-the-final-of-hockey-mens-u18-asia-cup-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan qualifies for final of Hockey Men&#8217;s U18 Asia Cup 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAZHOU: Pakistan has qualified for the final of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-to-take-on-malaysia-in-semi-final-of-u-18-hockey-asia-cup\/\">Men&#8217;s U18 Asia Cup 2025<\/a> on Friday after defeating Malaysia in a penalty shoot-out, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams scored 3 goals each at the end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/pcb-shares-domestic-cricket-calendar-2025-26\/\">game<\/a>, and the game&#8217;s fate was decided on a penalty shoot-out.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pakistan managed to secure a win in the semi-final of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in the final match of the group, the Green Shirts\u00a0defeated hosts China 2-1 in a thrilling encounter to remain unbeaten.<\/p>\n<p>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>The team had earlier won against\u00a0Bangladesh, 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAZHOU: Pakistan has qualified for the final of the Men&#8217;s U18 Asia Cup 2025 on Friday after defeating Malaysia in a penalty shoot-out, according to media reports. Both teams scored 3 goals each at the end of the game, and the game&#8217;s fate was decided on a penalty shoot-out. However, Pakistan managed to secure a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":48158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30007],"class_list":["post-80208","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\/80208","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=80208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80217,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80208\/revisions\/80217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}