Leandro Damiao and Kaoru Mitoma overcame a vintage performance from first-division career scoring leader Yoshito Okubo in Kawasaki Frontale's 3-2 J. League win over Cerezo Osaka on Wednesday.
Damiao twice equalized to match Okubo's brace and helped set up Mitoma's 62nd-minute winner that kept the 2020 league and Emperor's Cup champions atop of the table with six points from two games.
At Todoroki Stadium, where Okubo had two spells with Frontale, the 38-year-old opened the scoring in the fifth minute with a long-range drive off a counter.