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Borussia Dortmund wasted a two-goal lead and came back with two goals in the final three minutes for an amazing 4-3 victory at Karpaty Lviv of Ukraine in their Europa League Group J opener.
Dortmund controlled the match early on and jumped ahead on Nuri Sahin's penalty in the 12th minute before Mario Goetze made it 2-0 in the 27th for the visitors.
But Karpaty pulled a goal back in the 44th minute through Oleg Golodyuk and tied the contest with Mykhaylo Kopolovets's score after 52 minutes.
Denys Kozhanov then completed the comeback with his goals in the 78th minute for the Eastern Europeans, back in European action for the first time in 40 years.
Lucas Barrios evened up the game one more time for Dortmund in the 87th minute. And Goetze scored his second goal two minutes into stoppage time for the victory.
Dortmund lost their captain Sebastian Kehl just before the game to a thigh injury during the warm-up.
The Germans grabbed the lead in the 12th minute with a penalty. Barrios was felled in the area by Karpaty keeper Andriy Tlumak, after which Sahin stepped up to the spot and buried his left foot shot into the upper right corner.
Karpaty coach Oleg Kononov was forced to make a substitution after just 13 minutes with William Batista being carried off the pitch with what appeared to be a serious injury, replacing him with Kopolovets.
The Dortmund lead was 2-0 in the 27th minute after some fine passing on the counter attack. Goetze passed out to Barrios who crossed back to the talented 18-year-old who beat a helpless Tlumak.
Dortmund appeared in control of the match but the Ukrainians pulled a goal back one minute before the break.
A pass from the left side went to Sergei Zenjov but his shot was blocked into the path of Golodyuk who beat Dortmund keeper Roman Weidenfeller to the far right side to give the home fans something to cheer about.
A mistake by Dortmund defender Mats Hummels led to Karpaty tying up the game at 2-2 in the 52nd minute.
Neven Subotic passed back to Hummels, who had plenty of time and space but let the ball get too far from him and watched Kopolovets snatch it away and curl a shot past Weidenfeller for the equaliser.
Dortmund nearly regained the lead in the 76th minute but Sahin's free-kick from 25 yards blasted off the crossbar. And Barrios hit the bar with his header a minute later.
But Karpaty grabbed the lead in the 78th minute on a long punt by Tlumak which went to Kozhanov who ran onto the ball before his first-time shot sent it past Weidenfeller.
that put the home side 3-2 ahead with 12 minutes to play.
Dortmund refused to give up and Barrios tied the game again at 3-3 in the 87th minute after some fine passing with Robert Lewandowski.
And Barrios found Goetze in space in stoppage time and the youngster held his nerve to beat Tlumak.
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