T&T se­nior foot­ballers suf­fered a 3-0 loss to host Pana­ma at the Rom­mel Fer­nan­dez Sta­di­um, Pana­ma City, on Tues­day, as they con­tin­ued their prepa­ra­tions for the Dig­i­cel Caribbean Cup Sec­ond Round qual­i­fiers at home in No­vem­ber. Fol­low­ing last month's 3-1 home de­feat to the Ja­maica Reg­gae Boyz, coach Rus­sell Lat­apy was hop­ing for a bet­ter show­ing from his all lo­cal­ly-based pro­fes­sion­al line-up. How­ev­er, T&T again start­ed off poor­ly and pro­duced a ter­ri­ble dis­play, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the first 45 min­utes. In­ter­im Pana­ma coach, Jorge De­ly left many of his reg­u­lar play­ers on the bench, as he looked at new faces for next year's Cen­tral Amer­i­can Cham­pi­onship.

T&T goal­keep­er, Jan-Michael Williams was called in­to ac­tion as ear­ly as the ninth minute as he saved a penal­ty af­ter he brought down Ed­win Aguilar in the box, af­ter the strik­er beat T&T's off-side trap. But Pana­ma's dis­ap­point­ment did not last long as five min­utes lat­er, the host which had on­ly three wins in 12 pre­vi­ous meet­ings with the So­ca War­riors, took the lead via Aguilar. He turned in the box beat­ing de­fend­ers Daniel Cyrus and Ak­lie Ed­wards while leav­ing goal­keep­er Williams for dead as he placed his shot in the top far cor­ner for a 1-0 lead. There wasn't much ac­tion to re­port from T&T dur­ing the first half pe­ri­od, apart from a 16th minute Kern Cu­pid free-kick which sailed over the bar; and some dart­ing runs by one of T&T's hard­work­ing mid­field­er Kevon Carter, who teamed-up well with his De­fence Force team­mate De­von Jorsling.

Late in the first-half, Ed­wards came the clos­est to scor­ing an own goal as he tried to clear a through pass from Aguilar to Tor­res on the flank. On the re­sump­tion, Lat­apy's men start­ed with a lit­tle more pur­pose and should have equalised in the 57th minute when left back Jo­evin Jones, who re­placed Ed­wards at the in­ter­val, sent in a per­fect cross from the left on­ly for Ja­son Mar­cano to head the ball high over­bar. Ever­green strik­er, Luis Te­ja­da en­tered the match in the 67th for Pana­ma and it took him on­ly eight min­utes to find the back of the net when he scored from a de­fen­sive er­ror in the 75th. De­fend­er Ro­man Tor­res toyed with the T&T de­fence, which failed to clear the ball in the box, be­fore Te­ja­da latched on­to it and slapped his shot pass sub­sti­tute goal­keep­er Mar­vin Phillip.

Gabriel Gomez closed the door on T&T from the penal­ty spot in the 87th af­ter Cyrus, a for­mer T&T Un­der-20 de­fend­er, was wrong­ly ac­cused for push­ing one of the Pana­man­ian at­tack­ers in the box. Cyrus was sub­se­quent­ly yel­low card­ed while Gomez made no mis­take this time with a cheap chip past Phillip. In the 91st minute, T&T would get one last chance at goal when Trent Noel al­most knocked-out the Pana­man­ian goal­keep­er, Jose Calderon with a pow­er­ful free-kick.

The So­ca War­riors will now move to Be­lize to take on the home side (ranked 180th by Fi­fa) in an­oth­er friend­ly match to­mor­row in Bel­mopan, from 8 pm. They are al­so sched­uled to play An­tigua & Bar­bu­da (Sep­tem­ber 17), St Lu­cia (Sep­tem­ber 21), Guyana (Sep­tem­ber 26), Bermu­da (Oc­to­ber 6) and four days lat­er a re­turn match with Ja­maica in Kingston.

T&T:

Jan-Michael Williams (Mar­vin Phillip 46th); Kern Cu­pid, Daneil Cyrus, Ke­ston Williams, Ak­lie Ed­wards (Jo­evin Jones 46th); Trent Noel, Hay­den Tin­to, Den­sil Theobald (Ka­reem Young 77th), Kevon Carter (.Ataullah Guer­ra 56th); Ja­son Mar­cano (Ker­ry Bap­tiste 70th), De­von Jorsling.

Subs not used: Car­lyle Mitchell, Makan His­lop, Matthew Bartholomew, Hughton Hec­tor.

Coach: - Rus­sell Lat­apy.