{"id":58249,"date":"2026-11-14T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T12:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=58249"},"modified":"2026-11-14T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T12:39:29","slug":"japan-stun-brazil-3-2-as-sakamoto-strikes-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/japan-stun-brazil-3-2-as-sakamoto-strikes-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan stun Brazil 3-2 as Sakamoto strikes late"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, Nov 14:<\/strong> Japan secured a dramatic 3-2 victory over Brazil in an international friendly at the National Stadium in Singapore on Saturday, with Tatsuhiro Sakamoto scoring a stoppage-time winner.<\/p>\n<p>Japan made a flying start, taking a two-goal lead inside the opening 20 minutes. Takefusa Kubo opened the scoring in the 15th minute after capitalising on a Brazilian defensive mistake, before Keito Nakamura doubled Japan&#8217;s advantage four minutes later with a clinical finish from Shuto Nakano&#8217;s delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil responded through Vinicius Junior, who reduced the deficit in the 33rd minute with a spectacular long-range strike into the top corner.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Madrid forward continued to lead Brazil&#8217;s comeback efforts, restoring parity in the 75th minute with another brilliant finish following a short-corner routine assisted by Bruno Guimaraes.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil came close to completing the turnaround when substitute Endrick struck the crossbar, but Japan had the final say.<\/p>\n<p>Sakamoto, who came off the bench, scored the decisive goal in the 90th minute to seal a memorable victory for the Asian side.<\/p>\n<p>The late goal sparked protests from Brazil head coach Carlo Ancelotti and winger Raphinha, who had already been substituted, over a suspected foul in the build-up. Raphinha was sent off following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The result marked another impressive performance from Japan against the five-time world champions, following their historic 3-2 comeback victory in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Japan will take confidence from the win, while Brazil will look to respond in their next international friendly against Singapore on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Nov 14: Japan secured a dramatic 3-2 victory over Brazil in an international friendly at the National Stadium in Singapore on Saturday, with Tatsuhiro Sakamoto scoring a stoppage-time winner. Japan made a flying start, taking a two-goal lead inside the opening 20 minutes. Takefusa Kubo opened the scoring in the 15th minute after capitalising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58251,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58249\/revisions\/58251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}