Jubilo substitute forward Norihisa Shimizu scored a hat trick in the second half as J. League Division One second-stage leader Iwata downed FC Tokyo 5-2 at Tokyo's National Stadium Wednesday.
J-League 1st-division GPWDLGFGAPts. Iwata 9 8 0 1 19 6 22 Kashima 9 8 0 1 21 12 22 Ichihara 9 5 2 2 18 14 17 Shimizu 9 6 0 3 26 17 16 FC Tokyo 9 4 3 2 21 19 15 Yokohama 9 5 1 3 12 11 14 Nagoya 9 4 1 4 16 17 13 Kashiwa 9 3 3 3 21 15 12 Hiroshima 9 4 0 5 24 20 12 Sapporo 9 4 1 4 21 20 12 Fukuoka 9 3 2 4 14 17 10 Osaka G 9 3 1 5 12 16 10 Kobe 9 2 2 5 15 22 8 Tokyo V 9 2 1 6 11 18 7 Urawa 9 1 1 7 10 18 4 Osaka C 9 1 0 8 8 27 2
In a seesaw scoring battle in the rain, Tokyo midfielder Fumitake Miura put his team ahead in the 55th minute with a close-range blast. But Jubilo midfielder Jo Kanazawa struck an equalizer in the 65th minute before Shimizu, who had come on for young forward Ryoichi Maeda after the break, knocked in a header off a Toshiya Fujita cross in the 73rd minute for his first goal of the season.
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