Match highlights
Cerezo Osaka vs JEF United Chiba highlights
How the goals came
23' Makoto Himeno opens the scoring for JEF United Chiba → 47' Erison extends JEF United Chiba's lead → 90+6' Solomon Sakuragawa pulls one back for Cerezo Osaka → 90+8' Yuki Yokoyama equalises for Cerezo Osaka. Full time: 2-2, a draw.
The match, goal by goal
3 of the 4 goals came after half-time. 2 goals in second-half stoppage time.
23' Makoto Himeno (JEF United Chiba) 0-1
With the match still level at 0-0, Makoto Himeno broke the deadlock in the 23rd minute to put JEF United Chiba ahead at 0-1. The visitors struck first inside the opening half, and Cerezo Osaka were left chasing the game from that point on.
47' Erison (JEF United Chiba) 0-2
Early in the second half, in the 47th minute, Elison doubled the visitors' advantage to 0-2. It was JEF United Chiba's second goal of the match, following Himeno's opener, and the first time either side had held a two-goal cushion. The margin Cerezo Osaka had to recover was now twice as large.
90'+6 Solomon Sakuragawa (Cerezo Osaka) 1-2
The scoreboard still read 0-2 as the game moved beyond 90 minutes. In the sixth minute of added time, Solomon Sakuragawa put Cerezo Osaka on the scoresheet for the first time all match to make it 1-2. The hosts were suddenly a single goal short, with barely any time left.
90'+8 Yuki Yokoyama (Cerezo Osaka) 2-2
Two minutes after Sakuragawa's goal, in the eighth minute of added time, Yuki Yokoyama levelled the match at 2-2. Cerezo Osaka had wiped out a two-goal deficit within those two minutes of added time. JEF United Chiba, 0-2 up as the 90 minutes expired, were pegged back and left HANASAKA Stadium with a draw.
