Shimizu S-pulse 2–1 JEF United Chiba

JEF United Chiba looked set to spoil the trip to IAI Stadium Nihondaira, taking a 30th-minute lead through Matheus Salgueiro Pains, but Shimizu S-pulse tore the game back off them in the second half. Kai Matsuzaki leveled two minutes after the restart, and Oh Se-hun turned it around in the 71st minute to seal a 2-1 comeback win. It's a badly needed result for a Shimizu side that came in 13th in the J1 League with just one win from five, while JEF Chiba, sitting 20th on the same tally of four points, slip further into trouble after squandering an early lead they should have protected. Neither side has a player among the league's top scorers, with Léo Ceará's 35 goals still out of reach for both, but this was a result built on second-half nerve rather than individual quality. Shimizu's response to going behind, and the 24-minute window in which they flipped the scoreline, is the story of this one. Watch how Matsuzaki and Oh Se-hun turned a losing afternoon into three points, goal by goal, in the highlights below.