Bayern suffer shock loss, Schalke stage four-goal comeback at Dortmund

Pioneers Bayern Munich endured a stun 2-1 misfortune at Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday on a day of high dramatization in the Bundesliga after Schalke 04 organized an amazing four-objective rebound to draw 4-4 at Borussia Dortmund. 

It was Bayern's first misfortune after nine straight wins in all rivalries under mentor Jupp Heynckes, who assumed control in October, and just their second in the group this season. 

Bayern still lead on 29 focuses yet the thrashing slice their leverage to three focuses, with RB Leipzig now on 26 after their 2-0 prevail upon Werder Bremen. 

Gladbach struck twice late in the main half, in the 39th moment with a Thorgan Hazard punishment and after five minutes through Matthias Ginter. 

Bayern, missing a few key players through damage, battled back when Arturo Vidal scored with a low shot yet they couldn't discover an equalizer in spite of twice hitting the woodwork. 

"We put too little in the primary half. We lost the amusement in that first half," Heynckes told journalists. "We were too moderate, we battled with our musicality. 

"Be that as it may, we played the diversion just on one objective in the second half. We had possibilities." 

It was significantly more sensational in Dortmund where Schalke 04 safeguard Naldo ascended high to score a stoppage-time equalizer as they thundered from 4-0 down at halftime to finish the Bundesliga's best rebound in 41 years. 

Dortmund had scored four times in 13 minutes yet observed their lead dissipate after the break as in-shape Schalke, with four wins from their last five association diversions before Saturday, declined to surrender. 

The Royal Blues turned out to be just the second Bundesliga group in history to maintain a strategic distance from crush subsequent to trailing by no less than four objectives, after Bayern Munich, who won 6-5 at VfL Bochum in the wake of trailing 4-0 of every 1976. 

RED CARD 

There was more hopelessness for Dortmund, without a class win since September, as best striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who had scored one objective and set up another, was sent off in the second half for a foul that earned him a moment yellow card. 

"At halftime I sincerely did not trust we could in any case get a point from the derby," Schalke mentor Domenico Tedesco said. 

"That is the reason it feels so great. That second half was top level football." 

However under-weight Dortmund mentor Peter Bosz, whose future at the club remains in a precarious situation, could just reflect: "It is hard to manage it. You simply feel disillusionment. 

"That ought to never happen, that there is a 4-4 toward the end. Not even with a red card. We simply did not play football any longer." 

They stunned the guests with Aubameyang's twelfth moment strike, Benjamin Stambouli's stupendous claim objective and a Mario Goetze header. Raphael Guerreiro finished the primary half invasion with a fine volley in the 25th. 

However, the guests returned with objectives from Guido Burgstaller on the hour and Amine Harit, who later limped off harmed, leaving his own particular group with 10 men. 

Daniel Caligiuri's 86th-minute left-footed rocket set up a wild finale and Brazilian Naldo ensured Germany's fiercest football contention satisfied its notoriety for show with his stoppage-time equalizer. 

The outcome put Schalke on 24 focuses in third, level with Gladbach, while Dortmund are fifth on 21.