Keiji Tamada denied Kashiwa Reysol an unlikely win after playing the entire second half with 10 men as Nagoya Grampus came back to rescue a 3-3 draw in the J.League on Saturday.
Reysol's Ryoichi Kurisawa picked up his second booking in first-half injury time with his team 2-1 ahead at Hitachi Stadium, and the home side's prospects worsened further when Nagoya's Takahiro Masukawa equalized four minutes after the break.
Masato Kudo defied the odds when he restored Reysol's lead with his second goal of the game in the 63rd minute, but Tamada stabbed home eight minutes later to claim a share of the spoils from a match that ended with a total of six goals, six yellow cards and one red.
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