Soccer: Brighton's Mitoma nets 4th league goal in Leicester draw

Japan winger Kaoru Mitoma scored a stunning opener for his fourth English Premier League goal Saturday, earning man-of-the-match honors as Brighton secured a late 2-2 draw away to Leicester.

The 25-year-old cut in from the left and curled an unstoppable effort from outside the box into the far top corner in the 27th minute at King Power Stadium.

Marc Albrighton equalized in the 38th minute and Harvey Barnes made it 2-1 for Leicester following a corner in the 63rd minute, but 18-year-old Evan Ferguson ensured a share of the points for the visitors when he headed home Pervis Estupinan's cross off the post two minutes from time.

In Scotland, Kyogo Furuhashi had a double and took his season's tally to 20 goals as Celtic hammered Greenock Morton 5-0 at home in the Scottish Cup fourth round.

Furuhashi slotted past the goalkeeper in the 21st minute for a 2-0 lead, set up David Turnbull in the 42nd minute and fired in Celtic's fourth from a tight angle in first-half stoppage time before coming off at the break.

Daizen Maeda and Yuki Kobayashi played the entire game, while new signing Tomoki Iwata made his Celtic debut as he came on for the second half. Aaron Mooy scored the first and last goals for the home side.

Japan forward Ayase Ueda rolled home his eighth league goal in the Belgian top flight with a 24th-minute opener as Cercle Brugge claimed a late 2-1 win at Oostende.

Forward Koki Saito scored his first goal for Sparta Rotterdam, making it 2-0 in the 18th minute in their 3-0 win away to Cambuur in the Dutch Eredivisie.

Wataru Endo set up Serhou Guirassy's 36th-minute opener but Stuttgart were held to a 1-1 home draw with Mainz in the German Bundesliga.

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