Urawa Reds pulled off a remarkable comeback in the Asian Champions League on Wednesday, erasing a 3-1 first-leg deficit to defeat 10-man Kawasaki Frontale 5-4 on aggregate to reach the semifinals.
Toshiyuki Takagi scored the deciding goal in the dying minutes of Urawa's 4-1 victory in the second leg of the quarterfinals, after Shinzo Koroki, substitute Zlatan Ljubijankic and Rafael Silva answered Elsinho's opener for Kawasaki.
In the semis, Reds will play Andre Villas Boas' Shanghai SIPG, who went through a night earlier after beating Guangzhou Evergrande on penalties. The first leg on Sept. 27 is in Shanghai, the second leg Oct. 18 at Urawa.