Wapda fail to reach semifinals

Published May 10, 2005

LAHORE, May 9: Wapda failed to make it to the last four in the first AFC President football cup in Kathmandu, Nepal, despite winning the last match against Dordoi Dynamo Club of Kyrgyzstan 1-0. The solitary goal of the match was scored by Arif Mehmood in the 81st minute.

The Kyrgyzstan club qualified for the semifinals as top team of pool ‘B’ with Blue Star, Sri Lanka as runners-up. Wapda had lost the first two matches, but secured third position on better goal average against Hello United Cambodia.

Both teams have three points each.

Wapda lost the opener 1-0 to Blue Star Club Sri Lanka and in the second match tasted defeat at the hands of Hello United Cambodia 2-1.

From pool ‘A’, Rogar TadAZ of Tajikistan and Three Star Club of Nepal entered the semifinals.

Points-table (tabulate shows, team, matches, wins, draws, loss, goal for, goal against, points): “A”

Rogar TadAz 3-2-1-0-9-1-7

Three Star 3-1-2-0-3-2-5

Taiwan Power Co. 3-1-1-1-2-4-4

Transport United 3-0-0-3-2-9-0 “B”.

Dordoi-Dynamo 3-2-0-1-14-3-6

Blue Star 3-2-0-1-5-10-6

Wapda 3-1-0-2-2-3-3

Hello United 3-1-0-2-5-10-3

May 12: semifinals.

Regar TadAZ (Tajikistan)vs Blue Star (Sri Lanka);

Dordoi-Dynamo Kyrgyzstan) vs Three Star (Nepal).