21 August 2004	Saturday	04 Rajab 1425

KARACHI, Aug 20: Pakistan will clash with Spain on Saturday in their fourth important match of Athens Olympics Games. Defeating Spain will be no easy task for Pakistan as the former drew with the mighty Germans 1-1 while Pakistan lost to Germany 2-1 in their first match.

Spain is just behind Pakistan on the Group A points table with five points while Germany is on top of the list with seven points. Pakistan had two wins and a loss in the three matches while Spain had a win and two drawn games.

Pakistan at least need to a win and draw in the next two matches to have a chance of making the last four while Spain must win both their matches to qualify for semi-finals.

According to the statistics both the teams had played eight matches in the previous Olympics Games with Pakistan winning four, losing two and drawing the remaining two. Pakistan scored 18 goals and conceded eight.

Pakistan and Spain had played overall 61 international matches with the former winning 43, losing eight and 10 resulting in draw. Pakistan netted 169 goals while 80 were scored against them. The last match both the teams played was in Tri-Nation meet in Spain which the green shirts won 3-1. -Agencies

HOCKEY SCHEDULE (all times GMT)

Group A

05:30 Egypt - South Korea

17:00 Spain - Pakistan

17:30 Germany - Britain

Group B

07:30 India - New Zealand

15:00 South Africa - Australia

15:30 Argentina - Netherlands