{"id":9618,"date":"2026-08-05T14:12:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=9618"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:12:56","slug":"third-hockey-test-pakistan-defeat-south-korea-4-3-take-decisive-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=9618","title":{"rendered":"Third Hockey Test: Pakistan Defeat South Korea 4-3, Take Decisive Series Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Islamabad:<\/strong> The Pakistan hockey team defeated South Korea <strong>4-3<\/strong> in the third match of the hockey test series at the <strong>Naseer Bunda Hockey Stadium, Islamabad<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korea took the lead in the 10th minute of the match through a goal by <strong>Kim Hyun Jung<\/strong>, maintaining their advantage until the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the second quarter, Pakistan\u2019s <strong>Hayat Zakaria<\/strong> scored a field goal to level the match. However, South Korea regained the lead in the 33rd minute when <strong>Jang Ji Hoon<\/strong> scored to make it 1-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the third quarter, Pakistan\u2019s <strong>Rana Waheed<\/strong> scored in the 45th minute to equalize, but South Korea\u2019s <strong>Kim Yang<\/strong> responded five minutes later with another goal to put his team ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fourth quarter saw a strong comeback from Pakistan as <strong>Hannan Shahid<\/strong> and <strong>Abdul Rehman<\/strong> scored in the 55th and 57th minutes respectively, giving Pakistan a 4-3 lead that remained until the final whistle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this victory, Pakistan secured an unassailable <strong>3-0 lead<\/strong> in the four-match test series against South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Pakistan hockey team defeated South Korea 4-3 in the third match of the hockey test series at the Naseer Bunda Hockey Stadium, Islamabad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/439441_7827759_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/439441_7827759_updates-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/439441_7827759_updates-1-300x171.jpg",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/439441_7827759_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/439441_7827759_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/439441_7827759_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/439441_7827759_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=6\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9620,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9618\/revisions\/9620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}