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Pulisic's last-gasp goal rescues draw for Dortmund

Football Soccer - Sporting Lisbon v Borussia Dortmund - Champions League - Group F - Alvalade stadium, Lisbon, Portugal - 18/10/16 Sporting Lisbon's Bruno Cesar scores a goal. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante (Reuters)

BERLIN (Reuters) - Borussia Dortmund twice trailed by two goals against lowly Ingolstadt on Saturday but a stoppage time goal by Christian Pulisic earned them a scintillating 3-3 draw. Only four days after their Champions League win at Sporting Lisbon, Dortmund were 2-0 down in the first half with goals from Almog Cohen and Dario Lezcano. Forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang cut the deficit in the 59th minute with his seventh goal of the season but the hosts struck back less than a minute later, again with Paraguayan Lezcano. Last season's runners-up battled back, with Adrian Ramos giving them hope once more with his 69th minute goal and American teenager Pulisic's close range effort in stoppage time rescued a point for them. The result left Dortmund, without a win in their last three league matches, in sixth place on 14 points, three off leaders Bayern Munich, who play Borussia Moenchengladbach later on Saturday. Hertha Berlin climbed to second place, joining Bayern on 17 after edging past Cologne 2-1 with goals from Vedad Ibisevic and Niklas Stark either side of Anthony Modeste's equaliser for the visitors. Hoffenheim, who narrowly avoided relegation last season, continued their stellar run with a 3-0 demolition of hosts Bayer Leverkusen, who were down to 10 men after only six minutes following the dismissal of Kevin Volland with a straight red card. Their miserable afternoon was complete when coach Roger Schmidt was sent to the stands for a verbal attack on his Hoffenheim counterpart Julian Nagelsmann. Schmidt could now face a stiff sentence as a repeat offender, as his Champions League club slipped to 11th place. Hoffenheim climbed to third place on 16 with their fourth win on the trot. Germany striker Mario Gomez finally scored for his new club VfL Wolfsburg but it was not enough as the Wolves, led by interim coach Valerien Ismael, slumped to a 3-1 loss at Darmstadt 98 to drop to 15th. (Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, editing by Pritha Sarkar)