{"id":9455,"date":"2020-12-14T10:33:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9455"},"modified":"2020-12-14T12:01:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:01:48","slug":"army-wapda-qualify-for-national-challenge-cups-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9455","title":{"rendered":"Army, WAPDA qualify for National Challenge Cup\u2019s semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ARMY-and-WAPDA-foorball-team.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Lahore: Pakistan Army and WAPDA have qualified for\u00a0the 2020 National Challenge Cup semi-finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Army beat\u00a0Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) on penalties (3-0) after a thrilling 2-2 draw while Wapda defeated SA Gardens 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Army were a goal ahead in the 20th minute, thanks to Ali Raza but KRL&#8217;s Muddassar scored the equalizer in the 55th minute. Ansar Abbas in the 72th minute, gave Army 2-1 lead before Muddassar again netted a goal for KRL in\u00a0the 83rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams were unable to score a goal in the Extra Time and the match\u00a0had to be decided through a penalty shootout. KRL missed their first three penalties while Army scored all to bool their spot in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>In the second quarter-final, Ashfaquddin (5&#8242;, 56&#8242;) scored a brace and Ahtisham (90+5&#8242;) scored the third goal for Wapda to confirm a comfortable 3-0 win over SA Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>The two remaining semi-finalists will be decided when the Higher Education Commission (HEC) plays Karachi Port Trust (KPT) and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) take on Pakistan Airforce (PAF) tomorrow.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/sscg-meet-pakistan-airforce-national-challenge-cups-quarter-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SSCG to meet Pakistan Airforce in National Challenge Cup\u2019s Quarter-final<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lahore: Pakistan Army and WAPDA have qualified for\u00a0the 2020 National Challenge Cup semi-finals. Army beat\u00a0Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) on penalties (3-0) after a thrilling 2-2 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9455\" title=\"Army, WAPDA qualify for National Challenge Cup\u2019s semi-finals\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9457,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions\/9457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}