{"id":9956,"date":"2020-12-15T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2020-12-15T14:56:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:56:05","slug":"kpt-ssgc-advance-to-national-challenge-cup-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9956","title":{"rendered":"KPT, SSGC advance to National Challenge Cup semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SSGC-KPT.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Lahore: Karachi Port Trust (KPT)\u00a0defeated Higher Education Commission (HEC) by 1-0 while Sui Southern Gas Company (SSCG) beat Pakistan Airforce (PAF) on penalties (5-4) after a 1-1 draw to advance to the 2020 National Challenge Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>In the first match, KPT\u00a0Mohammad Bin Younis&#8217; 37th-minute penalty was enough to beat HEC and book a spot in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>In the second match,\u00a0Saddam Hussain scored in the 47th minute for SSGC before Faisal equalized for PAF in the 70th minute. The score remained 1-1 at the end of normal time as well as extra time.<\/p>\n<p>The match was ultimately decided on the penalty shootout. Both goalkeepers made some excellent saves but SSGC&#8217;s appeared to better in the end, ensuring his side qualifies to the semis.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-finals of the 2020 National Challenge Cup will be played at the Punjab Stadium on Thursday. The first semi-final will be played between Pakistan Army and WAPDA teams while the second semi-final will be played between KPT and SSGC.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/army-wapda-qualify-national-challenge-cup-semi-finals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Army, WAPDA qualify for National Challenge Cup\u2019s semi-finals<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lahore: Karachi Port Trust (KPT)\u00a0defeated Higher Education Commission (HEC) by 1-0 while Sui Southern Gas Company (SSCG) beat Pakistan Airforce (PAF) on penalties (5-4) after <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9956\" title=\"KPT, SSGC advance to National Challenge Cup 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\/9956"}],"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=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9958,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions\/9958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}