Wasteful Borussia Dortmund conceded a stoppage-time equalizer from Silas Katompa Mvumpa in a dramatic finale to attract 3-3 at 10-man VfB Stuttgart on Saturday and omit the risk to head joint best of the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich.
The guests idea that they had snatched victory within the topsy-turvy come upon with a stoppage time function thru Gio Reyna to make it 3-2.
But Silas slipped in to clutch the overdue function and punish Dortmund for additionally squandering a 2-0 lead previous within the recreation.
Dortmund at the moment are on 57 issues, two in the back of Bayern Munich, who additionally slipped up with a 1-1 house draw in opposition to Hoffenheim, and 6 forward of RB Leipzig in 3rd.
“It is difficult to find words to describe this,” stated Dortmund trainer Edin Terzic. “We idea we had already skilled dumb issues this season however this tops the entirety.
“I can describe what happened but it is difficult to find the words to describe how it happened against a team playing with 10 men.”
It had all began so smartly for the guests when Sebastien Haller grew to become in Donyell Malen’s cutback within the twenty sixth minute to place Dortmund forward.
They added every other within the thirty third as Malen scored for the fourth immediately league recreation ahead of Stuttgart had been left with 10 males following the dismissal of defender Konstantinos Mavropanos following a 2nd reserving simply ahead of halftime.
Dortmund hit the woodwork 4 mins after the restart thru Jude Bellingham, however as an alternative of creating certain of the 3 issues they inexplicably eased off and allowed the hosts to come back again overdue within the recreation.
Stuttgart pulled a function again thru replace Tanguy Coulibaly’s deflected effort within the 78th minute and with Dortmund in disarray, Josha Vagnoman leveled with a shot from within the field six mins later.
But the overdue drama used to be no longer over but with Reyna once more giving Dortmund hope of catching leaders Bayern Munich, who drew 1-1 in opposition to Hoffenheim, with their 3rd function of the afternoon in stoppage time.
Silas answered after he used to be given a ways an excessive amount of area within the field as Dortmund did not transparent the ball, and bagged the equalizer for the ecstatic house staff.
“We had a huge chance here today but we wasted it as a team and it is extremely disappointing,” Terzic stated.
“I don’t look at (Bayern’s) result but at what happened to us in the second half. That is the only thing that is important for us.”
(Reporting through Karolos Grohmann; Editing through Ed Osmond, Pritha Sarkar and Mike Harrison)
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