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PAK V FRA ( Pool A ) Hockey World League Semi-Final Antwerp 2015

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The opening match of the Day 8 at the FINTRO Hockey World League Semi-Final saw France battle to a fine draw against Pakistan, but it wasn’t enough for them to leap-frog their opponents in the Pool A standings.

France twice lead the match thanks to Simon Martin Brisac and Charles Masson, but Muhammad Waqas and Muhammad Dilber pulled the Greenshirts level on both occasions, ensuring that Pakistan finished the pool phase in third place and will face the team that finished second in Pool B in the cross-over quarter-finals.

Les Bleues finished fourth in Pool A, and now face the difficult task of beating the team that finishes top of Pool B if they are to reach the semi-finals and maintain hopes of taking one of the three guaranteed tickets to the HWL Final and Rio 2016 Olympics on offer here in Antwerp.

Reflecting on the match, France captain Tom Genestet felt it was a case of what might have been. “I think we didn’t hold the ball good enough during the first half”, said the midfielder. “We are disappointed but we have to stay focussed for the quarter-final match on Wednesday because that is the most important game.”

“France played well but we were quite sloppy, but I think that the whole of the game we had too many chanced that we missed”, said Greenshirts captain Mohammad Imran, who saw a first quarter penalty stroke brilliantly saved by France shot-stopper Martin Zylbermann. "We will learn from our mistakes and plan for the quarter-final.”

Goals

Team	Minute	Shirt #	Player	Action	Score
FRA	21	8	MARTIN BRISAC Simon	FG	0 - 1
PAK	36	7	WAQAS Muhammad	FG	1 - 1
FRA	38	11	MASSON Charles	FG	1 - 2
PAK	45	19	DILBER Muhammad	FG	2 - 2

Cards

Team	Minute	Shirt #	Player	Type
PAK	25	15	RIZWAN SR. Muhammad	G
PAK	25	16	AHMED Fareed	Y
FRA	28	20	CHARLET Victor	G
FRA	32	4	PETERS-DEUTZ Cristoforo	Y
PAK	50	15	RIZWAN SR. Muhammad	Y

PAK

Minute	Shirt #	Name	Goals	Green	Yellow
X	1	BUTT Imran
X	2	IRFAN Muhammad
X	3	IMRAN Muhammad
X	4	BUTT Ammad Shakeel
5	5	TOSEEQ Muhammad
X	7	WAQAS Muhammad	1
X	8	BHUTTA Muhammad Umar
X	9	MEHMOOD Rashid
X	10	RASOOL Shafqat
6	11	SHAN Ali
Bench	12	ABBAS Mazhar
8	13	SHAH Syed
7	14	RIZWAN JR. Muhammad
X	15	RIZWAN SR. Muhammad		1	1
X	16	AHMED Fareed			1
6	17	YAQOOB Muhammad
6	19	DILBER Muhammad	1
X	21	ALI Muhammad
		Medical Doctor	ABBAS Asad (Dr.)
		Video Technician	UMRAO Syead Abuzar
		Head Coach	SHAHNAZ Sheikh
		Team Manager	KALEEM Muhammad Danish

FRA

Minute	Shirt #	Name	Goals	Green	Yellow
X	4	PETERS-DEUTZ Cristoforo			1
7	5	KIEFFER Jean-Laurent
X	6	GENESTET Tom
7	7	GENESTET Hugo
X	8	MARTIN BRISAC Simon	1
6	9	SANCHEZ Olivier
X	11	MASSON Charles	1
6	14	BAUMGARTEN Gaspard
X	15	DERONT Guillaume
6	16	GOYET François
X	18	FORGUES Jean-Baptiste
11	19	SCHEEFER Francois
X	20	CHARLET Victor		1
X	22	GENESTET Martin
X	24	COISNE Aristide
X	25	LYON Romain
Bench	29	SAUNIER Corentin
X	31	ZYLBERMANN Martin
		Team Manager	FRANCOIS Antoine
		Head Coach	FOULARD Gael
		Assistant Coach	REYNAUD Bertrand
		Stand-In Manager	HOEBEN Gerold
		Medical Doctor	POPINEAU Christophe
		Physiotherapist	LE BRIS Sebastien

DNP = Did not participate
S = Suspended
DSQ = Disqualified

Match Officials

Role	Official
Umpire 1	VAN EERT Roel
Umpire 2	BARBAS Diego
Reserve Umpire	KOH Eric Kim Lai
Video Umpire	van BUNGE Coen
Judge 1	McKAY Iain
Judge 2	SHARMA Anjali
Technical Officer	DECKENBROCK Christian