Wasteful Borussia Dortmund conceded a stoppage-time equaliser from Silas Katompa Mvumpa in a dramatic finale to attract 3-3 at 10-man VfB Stuttgart on Saturday and miss the prospect to go joint high of the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich.
The guests thought that they had snatched victory within the topsy-turvy encounter with a stoppage time objective by means of Gio Reyna to make it 3-2.
However Silas slipped in to grab the late objective and punish Dortmund for additionally squandering a 2-0 lead earlier within the recreation.
Dortmund are actually on 57 factors, two behind Bayern Munich, who additionally slipped up with a 1-1 dwelling draw towards Hoffenheim, and 6 forward of RB Leipzig in third.
“It’s troublesome to seek out phrases to explain this,” Dortmund coach Edin Terzic stated. “We thought we had already skilled dumb issues this season however this tops every thing.
“I can describe what occurred however it’s troublesome to seek out the phrases to explain the way it occurred towards a workforce enjoying with 10 males.”
It had all began so effectively for the guests when Sebastien Haller turned in Donyell Malen’s cutback within the twenty sixth minute to place Dortmund forward.
They added one other within the thirty third as Malen scored for the fourth straight league recreation earlier than Stuttgart had been left with 10 males following the dismissal of defender Konstantinos Mavropanos following a second reserving simply earlier than halftime.
Dortmund hit the woodwork 4 minutes after the restart by means of Jude Bellingham, however as an alternative of creating positive of the three factors they inexplicably eased off and allowed the hosts to come back again late within the recreation.
Stuttgart pulled a objective again by means of substitute Tanguy Coulibaly’s deflected effort within the 78th minute and with Dortmund in disarray, Josha Vagnoman levelled with a shot from contained in the field six minutes later.
However the late drama was not over but with Reyna once more giving Dortmund hope of catching leaders Bayern Munich, who drew 1-1 towards Hoffenheim, with their third objective of the afternoon in stoppage time.
Silas responded after he was given far an excessive amount of house within the field as Dortmund didn’t clear the ball, and bagged the equaliser for the ecstatic dwelling workforce.
“We had an enormous probability right here at present however we wasted it as a workforce and this can be very disappointing,” Terzic stated.
“I do not take a look at (Bayern’s) consequence however at what occurred to us within the second half. That’s the solely factor that’s necessary for us.”
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; Enhancing by Ed Osmond, Pritha Sarkar and Mike Harrison)
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