All-Pakistan Football Challenge Cup: Mansoor a favourite as PAF strech semi-final
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KARACHI: PAF degraded four-time Pakistan Premier Football League (PPFL) champions KRL 1-0 in a quarter-finals of a All-Pakistan Football Challenge Cup during a Qayyum Stadium in Peshawar yesterday.
Both teams played a goalless initial half before PAF’s Mansoor Khan scored a leader in a 53rd notation to set adult a semi-final strife with Islamabad, who had degraded PTV 2-0 progressing in a day.
PAF manager Arshad Khan was gay with a team’s performance. “It was a good match,” Arshad told The Express Tribune. “I’m happy that we’re by as it was an intensely formidable game; KRL, winners of a 2015 Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Challenge Cup, are not an easy side to beat.”
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Arshad, meanwhile, hailed a organisers of a contest observant that a eventuality has been a approach for a departmental teams to play some football, something they have been deprived of given final year when domestic infighting pennyless out within a PFF heading to all football-related activities being halted.
Arshad was also gratified with a support a Peshawar throng gave. “We are happy to play in Peshawar given it has been some-more than a decade or so given departmental teams played here. The throng was really understanding and came out in numbers to watch a matches,” pronounced Arshad.
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In today’s fixture, Wapda take on 2014-15 PPFL champions K-Electric in a final quarter-final of a tournament. The leader of a compare will take on former inhabitant champions PIA, who degraded Police 3-2, in a semi-final.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 16th, 2016.
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