{"id":21137,"date":"2026-09-24T20:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/pakistan-down-china-3-0-to-extend-asian-games-hockey-run\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T20:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:21:57","slug":"pakistan-down-china-3-0-to-extend-asian-games-hockey-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/pakistan-down-china-3-0-to-extend-asian-games-hockey-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Down China 3-0 to Extend Asian Games Hockey Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <em><strong>Mohsin Ali<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan extended their winning run in the men\u2019s hockey competition at the Asian Games with a 3-0 victory over China on Thursday, strengthening their position in Pool B.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan struck all three goals in a dominant second quarter at Kawasaki Juko Stadium, with Abu Mahmood, Sufyan Khan and Hannan Shahid scoring in a nine-minute spell.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmood opened the scoring in the 19th minute from a penalty stroke before Sufyan doubled Pakistan\u2019s lead five minutes later with a penalty corner conversion.<\/p>\n<p>Hannan Shahid completed the scoring in the 28th minute as Pakistan carried a commanding 3-0 advantage into the remainder of the match.<\/p>\n<p>The win was Pakistan\u2019s third successive victory at the Games. They had opened their campaign with a 9-0 win over Thailand before defeating Uzbekistan 5-1.<\/p>\n<p>The result took Pakistan to nine points, leaving them level with Pool B leaders Malaysia. China could not respond after Pakistan\u2019s second-quarter burst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan defeated China 3-0 in the Asian Games men\u2019s hockey competition, with Abu Mahmood, Sufyan Khan and Hannan Shahid scoring in Pool B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21138,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137\/revisions\/21138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}