Pakistan clinched the lads’s hockey bronze medal with a 5-3 victory over South Korea on the twentieth Asian Video games in Nagoya on Saturday, staging a exceptional comeback after trailing by two targets at halftime.
The Inexperienced-shirts had fallen 3-1 behind on the Gifu Prefectural Inexperienced Stadium however produced a four-goal second-half fightback, preserving South Korea scoreless after the interval.
Sufyan Khan opened the scoring by changing a penalty nook within the first quarter, however Lee Gangsan rapidly restored parity for South Korea.
The Koreans then took management within the second quarter. Kim YongBok put South Korea forward earlier than Yang Jihun transformed one other penalty nook to present his aspect a 3-1 lead at halftime.
Pakistan returned from the break with larger urgency and commenced to show the competition round. Abdul Rehman pulled one again within the third quarter, decreasing the deficit to 3-2 whereas South Korea struggled to create clear probabilities.
The decisive turnaround got here within the remaining quarter. Waheed Rana scored twice, together with a penalty-corner conversion, to place Pakistan forward. Hannan Shahid then added one other objective because the Inexperienced-shirts prolonged their benefit to 5-3.
South Korea had been unable to reply within the closing phases, permitting Pakistan to see out the victory and safe the bronze medal.
Pakistan completed with 57 per cent possession and earned 9 penalty corners, in contrast with 5 for South Korea.