TOCHIGI, Japan (Interstat) — Tochigi City and Fujieda MYFC played to a 2-2 draw at City Football Station on Wednesday in a match that featured four goals, eight yellow cards and a stoppage-time finish. Fujieda MYFC scored twice and Tochigi City scored twice, leaving both teams without a win in the competition this season. The visitors pushed numbers forward after halftime, while Tochigi City defended deep and looked to counter. Neither side could find a winner in the closing minutes. The draw was the second in the competition for Fujieda MYFC and the first for Tochigi City.

W. Kanemoto scored for Fujieda MYFC while playing all 90 minutes. Atsushi Yoshida scored for Tochigi City in 28 minutes of action, and Masahide Hiraoka scored for Tochigi City in 21 minutes. Yuto Nakamura scored for Fujieda MYFC in 44 minutes and received a yellow card. Tetsuya Chinen had an assist and a yellow card in 90 minutes for Tochigi City. Yuto Nagao had an assist and a yellow card in 90 minutes for Fujieda MYFC, and Yusei Kondo had an assist and a yellow card in 24 minutes for Fujieda MYFC.

Kanemoto scored in the 52nd minute. Hiraoka scored in the 74th minute. Nakamura scored in the first minute of stoppage time. Yoshida also scored for Tochigi City during his 28-minute appearance. The goals came after a first half in which the teams traded fouls and yellow cards but could not find a breakthrough. Tochigi City’s best spells came after the interval, when it forced Fujieda MYFC into a series of fouls.

Yellow cards went to Tochigi City’s Chinen in the 31st minute and Okui R. in the first minute of first-half stoppage time. Fujieda MYFC’s Matsuda K. was booked in the 59th, Kondo in the 70th, Kusumoto T. in the 73rd, Nagao and Nakamura in the 79th, and Uehata U. in the 85th. Fujieda MYFC finished with six yellow cards to Tochigi City’s two. The bookings interrupted the flow of the match and set up a tense closing stretch.

Fujieda MYFC made two changes at halftime, bringing on Matsuki S. and Suzuki S. Tochigi City responded with Vasquez B., Koike Y. and Okui R. in the 62nd minute. Fujieda MYFC then used Aoki S. and Matsuda K. in the 66th, while Tochigi City brought on Nguen T. in the 69th. Kitahara M. entered for Fujieda MYFC in the 76th, and Okaniwa Y. came on for Tochigi City in the 87th. The substitutions changed the tempo but did not alter the score.

Fujieda MYFC entered the match after a scoreless draw against Montedio Yamagata, a 1-0 loss at Sagan Tosu and a 2-1 loss to Cerezo Osaka. Tochigi City had lost 2-1 at Kofu and 2-0 to Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Fujieda MYFC is now 0-1-2 in the competition and 0-2-2 across all competitions. Tochigi City is 0-1-1 in the competition and 0-2-1 across all competitions. The draw added another point to each team’s account in a season that has yet to produce a victory for either side. Fujieda MYFC next hosts Tokushima in league play. Tochigi City’s next league match is against Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo at home.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Tochigi City 2, Fujieda MYFC 1. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Tochigi City with a 78.9 percent probability to win. Tochigi City had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -0.5. The total score of 4 went under the over/under line of 2.5.