El portero paró otro penalti y el marcador siguió a nuestro favor.

Portero is a very common word in Spain for goalkeeper in football.

A native speaker might also use:

• guardameta — a bit more formal or journalistic
• arquero — common in many Latin American countries, but less typical in Spain

So in Spain Spanish, el portero sounds very natural in a football context.

Here paró is the preterite form of parar, and in football it means saved or stopped.

So paró otro penalti means the goalkeeper saved another penalty.

Outside football, parar often means:

• to stop
• to halt
• to bring to a stop

In sports language, though, it is very commonly used for a goalkeeper stopping a shot.

The accent mark shows that this is the third-person singular preterite form of parar:

• yo paré
• tú paraste
• él/ella paró

The accent is important because it helps distinguish the past-tense form and shows the stress falls on the last syllable: pa-RÓ.

The preterite is used because the sentence is narrating completed events in a match.

• paró = he saved it, a finished action
• siguió = it remained/continued, presented as a completed development in the storyline

If you used the imperfect, it would sound more like background description or an ongoing situation rather than specific match events.

In Spanish, otro normally does not take an indefinite article before it.

So you say:

• otro penalti = another penalty
• not un otro penalti

This is the normal pattern in Spanish:

• otro día
• otra vez
• otro problema

Penalti is the standard adapted Spanish spelling of the football term penalty in Spain.

You may also see or hear:

• penalty — borrowed English spelling, but less adapted
• penal — used in some varieties, but usually refers to the penalty kick itself in some regions

In Spain, penalti is very normal and widely understood.

In this sentence, el marcador refers to the score or the scoreboard reading.

So it is not just the physical scoreboard in the stadium. It often means the actual match score, for example:

• el marcador iba 1-0
• el marcador no cambió

A close English translation here is simply the score.

Siguió is the preterite of seguir, which often means:

• to continue
• to go on
• to remain

In this sentence, el marcador siguió a nuestro favor means the score remained in our favour or continued to favour us.

So seguir is not always just to follow. Its meaning depends a lot on context.

Because seguir is a stem-changing verb.

In the preterite, the third-person forms change from e to i:

• yo seguí
• tú seguiste
• él/ella siguió
• ellos siguieron

So siguió is the correct form, not seguió.

A nuestro favor means in our favour or favouring us.

It is a very common expression:

• estar a favor de algo = to be in favour of something
• tener algo a favor = to have something going for you
• el marcador está a nuestro favor = the score is in our favour

In this sentence, it means the score was still benefiting our team.

Yes, en nuestro favor is also possible in some contexts, but a nuestro favor is especially common with things like:

• el marcador
• el resultado
• una decisión
• un viento favorable, metaphorically speaking

With sports scores, a nuestro favor sounds very natural.

You may also hear:

• el resultado seguía a nuestro favor
• el partido estaba a nuestro favor

Because Spanish uses a possessive adjective here, not a subject pronoun.

• nuestro = our
• nosotros = we / us

So:

• a nuestro favor = in our favour

You would not say a nosotros favor.

Yes, it is understandable and natural enough, especially in sports narration, though some speakers might more commonly say things like:

• el marcador siguió a nuestro favor
• el marcador se mantuvo a nuestro favor
• el resultado siguió a nuestro favor
• el resultado se mantuvo a nuestro favor

Se mantuvo can sound slightly more explicit for remained, but siguió works well.

Yes, literally it can, but in natural English football language, he saved another penalty is usually the best translation.

That is a good example of how Spanish and English often use slightly different verbs in sports:

• Spanish: parar un penalti
• English: save a penalty

Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns when the verb form already makes the subject clear.

Here:

• paró clearly refers to el portero
• siguió clearly refers to el marcador

So there is no need to say él paró or este siguió unless the speaker wants extra emphasis or contrast.