{"id":86284,"date":"2025-09-04T18:17:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=86284"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:17:39","slug":"ali-jasim-hat-trick-powers-iraq-to-8-1-win-over-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/ali-jasim-hat-trick-powers-iraq-to-8-1-win-over-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Jasim hat-trick powers Iraq to 8-1 win over Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Jasim scored a brilliant hat-trick as Iraq thrashed Pakistan 8-1 in their opening Group G clash of the AFC U23 Asian Cup 2026 Qualifiers at the Olympic Stadium on Wednesday.<br \/>\nPakistan were reduced to ten men in the 30th minute after Mohibullah Afridi was shown a red card. Iraq capitalized immediately, converting a penalty to take a 1-0 lead, which they held until half-time.<br \/>\nJasim doubled Iraq\u2019s advantage soon after the restart before McKeal Abdullah pulled one back for Pakistan from the spot in the 63rd minute. However, Iraq launched a ruthless late onslaught, scoring six more goals in the final half hour to seal a resounding win.<br \/>\nThe victory lifted Iraq to the top of Group G, while Pakistan slipped to the bottom. The Green Shirts will now face Cambodia on September 6 and Chinese Taipei on September 9.<br \/>\nOnly the group winners and four best runners-up will advance to the AFC U23 Asian Cup 2026 in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Jasim scored a brilliant hat-trick as Iraq thrashed Pakistan 8-1 in their opening Group G clash of the AFC U23 Asian Cup 2026 Qualifiers at the Olympic Stadium on Wednesday. Pakistan were reduced to ten men in the 30th minute after Mohibullah Afridi was shown a red card. Iraq capitalized immediately, converting a penalty &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":86296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86298,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86284\/revisions\/86298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}