Dortmund’s Bundesliga title hopes further dented

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Dortmund’s Bundesliga title hopes further dented

Jacob Bruun Larsen has scored late on his return to former club Borussia Dortmund to earn Hoffenheim a 1-1 draw in the ******* Bundesliga.

Gio Reyna’s first goal of the season looked to be enough for Dortmund’s seventh league win, but Hoffenheim substitute Bruun Larsen scored in the first minute of added time on Sunday when Dortmund’s defence switched off for Haris Tabakovic’s cross.

The 26-year-old Bruun Larsen – who played for Dortmund between 2015-20 with a five-month stint in Stuttgart – fired the ball inside the left post. He didn’t celebrate, though his teammates did.

“If I’d played from the start, maybe it would have been two goals,” Bruun Larsen said of having to start on the substitutes’ bench.

Reyna scored after the break, when he stopped an attempted clearance with his chest, then rifled the ball inside the top right corner.

Dortmund slipped to eighth after dropping points for the eighth time in 14 league games, while Hoffenheim remain in 14th.

Stuttgart won 3-1 at Heidenheim to climb two places to sixth. Stuttgart, who finished runners-up last season, had a shaky start to the league and Champions League but have now strung together four wins across all competitions by scoring at least three goals in each.

Heidenheim are arguably paying the price for their success as a promoted team last season, when they qualified for the Conference League. Frank Schmidt’s team are in the relegation zone after seven defeats across all competitions.

Elsewhere, Lois Openda steered Leipzig to a 2-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the team’s first game since their Champions League hopes were ended on Tuesday.

Frankfurt’s defenders left Openda alone to score after Christoph Baumgartner headed on a corner in the 51st, giving Leipzig back-to-back league and cup wins over Frankfurt. Their cup victory over Frankfurt on December 4 ended a six-game run without a win across all competitions.

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