Taipei Times
Date: Jun 23, 2020
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter

Fans at Taipei Municipal Stadium on Sunday witnessed the upset of the Taiwan Football Premier League season so far, as the bottom-of-the-table Red Lions pulled off a shock 2-0 win over reigning champions Tatung, while Taichung Futuro held on to first place with a narrow 1-0 win thanks to a disputed penalty.

Tatung were among the frontrunners in pursuit of leaders Futuro, despite experiencing a slump in form after two straight defeats, and most people expected an easy victory over the Red Lions, who only picked up their first point when they held Hang Yuan to a scoreless draw the previous weekend.

Tatung signaled their intentions by starting with twin strikers Ange Samuel of the Ivory Coast and Ben Ouedraogo of Burkina Faso, with Taiwan international Onur Dogan and Honduran Elias Argueta in support, while the Red Lions countered with their own twin threat, Gerardo Rabre of Guatemala and Esteban Vasquez of Chile.

The Red Lions absorbed wave after wave of opposition attacks, before capitalizing on a mistake by Tatung’s Luis Fernando, with Rabre robbing the ball off the centerback and coolly slotting past goalkeeper Shih Hsin-an.    [FULL  STORY]