Yoshito Okubo scored against his former club as FC Tokyo lit the touch paper late in the second half to beat Kawasaki Frontale 3-0 on Saturday night.
All eyes were on Okubo at Ajinomoto Stadium as the striker made his first appearance against Frontale since leaving the club where he topped the J. League's scoring charts for three straight years before joining Tokyo in the offseason.
Fellow strikers Takuma Abe and Peter Utaka looked to have stolen Okubo's thunder when Abe forced a 75th-minute own goal by Frontale goalkeeper Jung Sung-ryong and Utaka added a second in the 86th minute to send Tokyo toward its third win in four games.
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