(AFP) - Borussia Dortmund returned from afar to snatch a 2-2 draw from its guest Bayern Munich with a goal in the last second, after falling behind 0-2 until the 74th minute, to turn things upside down in the last quarter of an hour, Saturday, in an exciting match in the ninth stage. of the German Football League .

Bayern Munich, the champion of the last ten seasons, was on its way to confirm its dominance in the "Classicer" matches against its rivals, Borussia Dortmund, and to achieve its eighth successive victory over it in the league, but it settled for one point.

The tie came after 7 successive defeats for Dortmund against the Bavarian team in the Bundesliga, knowing that its last victory over Bayern dates back to November 10, 2018, with a score of 3-2.

In general, Bayern excels in the total number of meetings of the two teams, after they met 107 times, achieving 52 victories, compared to 25 for its opponent, and a draw 30 times.

With this result, neither team failed to take the lead, waiting for the leaders Union Berlin and Freiburg matches (17 points) against Stuttgart and Freiburg, respectively, on Sunday, and their score became 16 points, leaving Bayern Munich third, by goals from Dortmund.

Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann expressed his disappointment with the result, saying, "The result is fair, but we could have decided it, but we did not."

The disappointment was also apparent on Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, saying, "We were just around the corner from advancing 3-0, and we were in control of the course of the game, and we had the opportunity to settle the result. With some calm, it was possible to return with the three points."

As for Dortmund coach Aden Terzik, he considered that his team came away with a deserved point from the match, saying, "My team deserves a draw. We threw everything forward. We needed every player."

At the “Signal Iduna Park” stadium, the two teams entered the Saturday match for the first time, and neither of them was in the first two places, since 2013.

Bayern, who won 5-0 over its Czech guest Victoria Plzen in the middle of the week in the Champions League, played the match in the absence of its influential player, Thomas Muller, because he did not recover from infection with Covid-19, while his colleague Joshua Kimmich sat on the benches of the reserve players before participating in the beginning of the second half, knowing that he was infected with a virus. Corona also at the same time with Mueller.

On the other hand, Dortmund missed its captain, Marco Reus, due to an ankle tendon injury.

Despite the quick start of the two teams, they did not pose a significant danger until Bayern succeeded in opening the scoring with its first shot on goal.

Senegalese Sadio Mane made a quick counterattack and passed a ball with the heel towards Jamal Musiala, who prepared it perfectly to Leon Goritska, so that the latter would crawl from the outskirts of the area out of the reach of the Dortmund goalkeeper (33).

Immediately after that, Dutchman Donyell Mallen was alone with goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who brilliantly saved his attempt (36).

At the beginning of the second half, Goritska passed a header backwards towards Mane, and the goal was open in front of the latter, but he also headed it outside the three woods (49).

But Bayern Munich succeeded in adding the second goal through its wing, Leroy Sanneh, who fired a powerful ball with his left from outside the area to deceive the Dortmund goalkeeper and continue its way into his net (54). Sanneh is shining this season in the ranks of the Bavarian, and he has scored 9 goals in various competitions, including four in the local league.

Dortmund, who won 4-1 on Wednesday in the backyard of Seville in the Champions League, reduced the score after a quick counterattack by Youssoufa Mokoko, who fired a powerful ball with his left from the penalty spot into the net (75). Mokoko became the youngest player to score in a Classicer match at the age of 17 years and 322 days.

Frenchman Anthony Modest missed an opportunity not to be wasted when Karim Ademaye brilliantly got rid of a Bayern defender and passed a ball towards him while he was lurking in front of the goal, but he did not improve its translation into the equalizer (83).

The referee dismissed Bayern's French winger Kingsley Coman, who participated at the beginning of the second half after a long absence from the stadiums due to injury, in the last minute with the second yellow card.

Modest made up for his mistake minutes ago, when he snatched the equalizer in the last second, taking advantage of a cross pass by defender Nico Schlotterberg, who followed it up with his head into the goal from close range, to snatch his team a valuable point amid indescribable joy in the stands, specifically in the famous yellow and black wall stand where the passionate fans of Dortmund gather.

Spanish coach Xabi Alonso, former Liverpool and Bayern Munich star, made a strong start at the helm of Bayer Leverkusen's coaching staff, leading him to a landslide 4-0 victory over his guest, Schalke 04.

Alonso took office just 3 days ago, succeeding Swiss Gerardo Siwan, who paid the price for not winning in his last four league matches before falling 2-0 to Porto in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Alonso trained the reserve team for Real Sociedad in the Basque region of his birth for three years until last May, and contributed to its rise to the second division in Spain for the first time in 60 years, before it fell at the end of last season.

With this victory, which is the second for Leverkusen this season, the team got out of the danger zone, at least temporarily, and became temporarily in the fourteenth place, with 8 points.

Frenchman Moussa Diaby opened the scoring with a powerful shot in the 38th minute. Then the English winger, Callum Hudson-Odoi, manipulated two players from Schalke 04, before passing a cross ball towards Diaby, and from him to Dutchman Jeremy Frimpong, to be followed by the latter into the net (41).

Frimpong added his second personal goal and the third for his team (51), before Brazilian Paulinho concluded the goal festival in the second minute of stoppage time.
Last-placed Bochum inflicted a severe defeat on last season's Europa League champion Eintracht Frankfurt, 3-0, and temporarily prevented it from catching up with leaders Union Berlin and Freiburg.
Two matches ended in a 1-1 draw: Mainz with its guest Leipzig and Augsburg with its guest Wolfsburg.