Match Recap
Japan looked beaten at half-time, trailing to K. Kelsy's strike three minutes after the restart, then turned the friendly on its head. A. Ueda leveled things just four minutes later and, with the clock ticking deep into stoppage time, struck again in the 90+6th minute to snatch a 2-1 win for the hosts over Venezuela. That brace puts Ueda alongside the league's elite finishers, sitting just outside the top of the scoring charts where M. Osmajić currently leads with five goals. For a fixture with no table stakes attached, this one delivered everything a friendly rarely does: a fightback, a double from the match-winner, and a finish so late it barely counted as regulation time. Kelsy's early second-half goal will sting for Venezuela, who did enough to lead before Japan's response buried them. Press play to watch Ueda's stoppage-time winner land in the very last kick of the game, the moment that turned a Venezuela lead into a Japan comeback.
