Kenyu Sugimoto's 88th-minute equalizer salvaged a 2-2 Asian Champions League draw for Cerezo Osaka against Thailand's Buriram United on Wednesday.

Tightly marked for most of the night, Sugimoto shook his marker on a cross from the right, off the boot of captain Hotaru Yamaguchi, to score at Osaka Nagai Stadium and earn Cerezo a point.

Despite a free-flowing attacking game from both sides, Buriram's goals both came on set pieces, Rattanakorn Maikami's arcing 11th-minute corner falling in for the game's first score.