Shimizu S-Pulse vs V-Varen Nagasaki
How the goals came
13' Koya Kitagawa opens the scoring for Shimizu S-Pulse → 39' Thiago Santana equalises for V-Varen Nagasaki → 116' Masaki Yuba puts Shimizu S-Pulse ahead (the winner). Full time: 2-1, Shimizu S-Pulse win.
The match, goal by goal
1 of the 3 goals came after half-time.
13' Koya Kitagawa (Shimizu S-Pulse) 1-0
Koya Kitagawa broke the deadlock in the 13th minute and put Shimizu S-Pulse 1-0 ahead at home. It was the first goal of this third-round tie in the Emperor's Cup JFA All-Japan Soccer Championship. The lead would not survive the first half, and the match ran on to the 116th minute before it was settled.
39' Thiago Santana (V-Varen Nagasaki) 1-1
Shimizu's lead lasted 26 minutes. Thiago Santana levelled for V-Varen Nagasaki in the 39th minute to make it 1-1. The visitors had pegged the hosts back before the interval, and the tie went into the break all square.
116' Masaki Yuba (Shimizu S-Pulse) 2-1
Level at 1-1, the tie could not be settled inside 90 minutes and ran on to the 116th minute. That was when Masaki Yuba scored Shimizu S-Pulse's second goal for 2-1. It proved the winning goal: having been pegged back in the first half, Shimizu did not surrender the lead again.