Match Report
6 points and 1 places separated them: Costa del Este 1st with 29, Deportivo Universitario 2nd with 23. Deportivo Universitario ranked just 18th in the league on five-round form despite their 2nd table position. Against a league average of 1.11 goals per team per game, Costa del Este ran at 1.38 scored and 1 conceded, Deportivo Universitario at 1.13 and 1.13.
A win had eluded Costa del Este for 6 matches. Deportivo Universitario arrived on a run of three straight wins, having scored in 6 consecutive games. The five-game form split read 3/15 points for Costa del Este against 10/15 for Deportivo Universitario.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 4 Costa del Este wins, 0 for Deportivo Universitario, 1 draw, at 2.4 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 0% of the meetings went to the host.
Nuevo Estadio Maracaná de Panamá in Ciudad de Panamá staged the fixture, a ground that holds 32,000. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 1-0.