Unable to read nested arrays with the same names - php

Question

I'm working with a large set of nested arrays in PHP. The data originally started as a JSON data object that was converted with json_decode true. I've been able to navigate the resulting nested array without too much issue up till now. I've run into the following problem.
Scores
Team1
Info1
Info2
Element1
Element2
**Info3**
Element1
Item1
Item2
Element2
Item1
Item2
**Info3**
Element1
Item1
Item2
Element2
Item1
Item2
The problem is that Info3 are two distinct arrays with their own collections of data that I need to extract, but they have the same exact name. Running something like:
echo $Scores['Team1']['Info3'][0]['Item1']
Works to a degree; but it only captures the items of the elements of the last Info3 instance. Info3 instances further up the chain are ignored. I've also tried specifying the instance of the array I want specifically, like so:
$echo $Scores['Team1'][3]['Element1']['Item1']
Which is very similar to the above but for some reason doesn't work. It's as if the Element arrays are keyed, but the Info arrays are not. I've also tried a foreach loop through Team1 and taking action only if the value was equal to Info3, but again no joy. To further complicate things, the number of Info3 arrays is itself variable, number 0-5, so my capture has to be similarly dynamic.
Edit: Adding a JSON snippet, as requested.
"scores": {
"team1": {
"info1": 0,
"info2": [
{
"element1": 1,
"element2": 144568658
},
{
"element1": 2,
"element2": 132020087
}
]
,
"info3": [
{
"item1": 5462,
"item2": 1
}
]
,
"info3": [
{
"item1": 5608,
"item2": 1
},
{
"item1": 5611,
"item2": 1
}
]
,
"info3": [
{
"item1": 5127,
"item2": 1
}
]
},
"team2": { etc...
Edit: Thanks to everyone who took time to answer. Seems the problem with not with my coding attempts but with the JSON source being malformed.

Answer 1

Based off the comment from Jujunol we came up with this workaround for the bad JSON data:
$info3Count = substr_count($jsonString, '"info3": [');
$c = 1;
while ($c <= $info3Count) {
$pos = strpos($jsonString, '"info3": [');
$jsonString = substr_replace($jsonString, '"info3-'.$c.'": [', $pos,
strlen('"info3": ['));
$c++;
}
Basically, we imported the JSON as raw text, hunted through it for info3 instances and appended a -n to the end of it where n was a simple counter. This rendered each instance of info3 unique enough for a successful json_decode.