Match highlights
Kyoto Sanga F.C. vs Kashima Antlers highlights
How the goals came
16' Haruki Arai opens the scoring for Kyoto Sanga F.C. → 78' Élber equalises for Kashima Antlers → 90+5' Yuta Matsumura puts Kashima Antlers ahead → 90+7' Haruki Arai equalises for Kyoto Sanga F.C. Full time: 2-2, a draw.
The match, goal by goal
3 of the 4 goals came after half-time. The lead changed hands 1 time. 2 goals in second-half stoppage time.
16' Haruki Arai (Kyoto Sanga F.C.) 1-0
The scoring opened in the 16th minute, when Haruki Arai put Kyoto Sanga F.C. in front at home for 1-0. It was the only goal of the first half, and the lead held deep into the second. Arai's name would be entered on the scoresheet once more before the night was done.
78' Élber (Kashima Antlers) 1-1
Kyoto Sanga F.C. had protected their lead for 62 minutes before it went. Elber was the man who erased it in the 78th minute, levelling the match at 1-1 for Kashima Antlers on the road. With little more than ten minutes left, the contest had been reset.
90'+5 Yuta Matsumura (Kashima Antlers) 1-2
Five minutes into added time, Yuta Matsumura made it 1-2. It was the first moment all evening in which Kashima Antlers held the lead, and it turned around a match Kyoto Sanga F.C. had opened the scoring in. Ninety minutes that looked bound for a draw had suddenly changed direction.
90'+7 Haruki Arai (Kyoto Sanga F.C.) 2-2
Kashima Antlers held their lead for just two minutes. In the seventh minute of added time Haruki Arai scored his second of the night to make it 2-2. The man who had opened the scoring in the 16th minute was the one who pulled the match back level at the very end, and the 13,011 present at Sanga Stadium by Kyocera saw no further goals.
