Tauro FC

Match report

Tauro secured a 2:1 victory over Independiente de la Chorrera in the sixth round of the Panama League Apertura on Friday night. The result keeps the hosts in fourth place with 21 points, while the visitors remain third on 20 points after another hard-fought afternoon.

C. Quintero opened the scoring early, finding the net in the eleventh minute before picking up a yellow card just five minutes later. The match stayed tight through the first half, with both sides accumulating bookings. By then the tempo had settled into a measured rhythm, neither team willing to take unnecessary risks.

Chorrera levelled through J. Barria in the seventy-ninth minute, a goal that shifted the momentum. But Tauro responded in the final moments when E. Giron struck in the eighty-ninth minute to seal the win. The visitors had worn down in the closing stages, and the hosts got their substitutions spot on to see out the result.

The statistics tell a story of evenly matched sides. Both teams held 50 per cent possession, with Tauro registering six shots on target to Chorrera's one. The visitors attacked more frequently overall, but the hosts were more clinical in front of goal. It was a match decided by three-odd moments rather than sustained pressure.

For Tauro this ends a run of poor results, including back-to-back defeats against Alliance and Arab Unido. The old head settled them down when it mattered, and they fancy their chances to climb further up the table. Chorrera drop two places in the standings, and the gap between them and fourth is now just one point.

Prepared from match data

Key numbers

Possession, % 50 – 50

Shots on target 6 – 1

Shots off target 5 – 4

Attacks 63 – 65

⚽ 11' C. Quintero — Goal 🟨 16' C. Quintero — Yellow card 🟨 28' A. Orelien — Yellow card 🟨 30' A. Cifuentes — Yellow card 🟨 43' D. Fori — Yellow card ⇄ 46' A. Valverde — Substitution ⇄ 46' J. Gonzalez — Substitution 🟨 51' G. Negrete — Yellow card ⇄ 55' G. Negrete — Substitution ⇄ 58' A. Diaz — Substitution ⇄ 58' L. Asprilla — Substitution ⇄ 64' A. Orelien — Substitution 🟨 64' J. Figueroa — Yellow card ⇄ 75' J. Penalba — Substitution ⇄ 75' B. Perez — Substitution ⚽ 79' J. Barria — Goal 🟨 80' Yellow card 🟨 81' Yellow card 🟨 84' Yellow card 🟨 89' Yellow card ⚽ 89' E. Giron — Goal

Match events

11' 1:0 Tauro FC Goal C. Quintero
16' 1:0 Tauro FC Yellow card C. Quintero
28' 1:0 Tauro FC Yellow card A. Orelien
30' 1:0 Independiente de La Chorrera Yellow card A. Cifuentes
43' 1:0 Independiente de La Chorrera Yellow card D. Fori
46' 1:0 Independiente de La Chorrera Substitution A. Valverde off: D. Contreras
46' 1:0 Independiente de La Chorrera Substitution J. Gonzalez off: Y. Ramirez
51' 1:0 Independiente de La Chorrera Yellow card G. Negrete
55' 1:0 Independiente de La Chorrera Substitution G. Negrete off: J. Giron
58' 1:0 Tauro FC Substitution A. Diaz off: K. Hurtado
58' 1:0 Tauro FC Substitution L. Asprilla off: I. Hernandez
64' 1:0 Tauro FC Substitution A. Orelien off: A. Olivardia
64' 1:0 Tauro FC Yellow card J. Figueroa
75' 1:0 Tauro FC Substitution J. Penalba off: J. Barria
75' 1:0 Tauro FC Substitution B. Perez off: K. Bernal
79' 2:0 Tauro FC Goal J. Barria
80' 2:0 Tauro FC Yellow card
81' 2:0 Independiente de La Chorrera Yellow card
84' 2:0 Independiente de La Chorrera Yellow card
89' 2:0 Tauro FC Yellow card
89' 2:1 Independiente de La Chorrera Goal E. Giron

Statistics

50 Possession, % 50

6 Shots on target 1

5 Shots off target 4

63 Attacks 65

9 Corners 6

15 Free kicks 26

1 Offsides 1

5 Yellow cards 5

0 Red cards 0

7 Goal kicks 6

27 Throw-ins 23

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