ISLAMABAD: Pakistan outplayed Egypt by 3-1 in the pool D match of the World Junior Hockey Cup in Bhubaneswar, India on Saturday.
According to details, Pakistan’s Rizwan Ali scored three brilliant goals on penalty corners while Awad Husein scored a field goal for Egypt in the 22nd minute of the game.
Both teams displayed top notch in the game by counter attacking each other’s goal post.
However, Pakistan played better on the day and attacked the Egyptian goal post several times while Egypt’s goalkeeper Mahmoud Saleem defended well.
Pakistan’s Rizwan Ali took advantage of penalty corners in the 19th, 32nd and 53rd minutes of the game to score three goals and set the hat-trick of the match.
Vice-captain Moin Shakeel was declared man of the match.
On the occasion, Moin said they followed the plan given by the coach and took advantage of the penalty corners.
“We would adopt a better match strategy against Argentina in our last pool match,” he said.
