Undav late strike snatches Stuttgart point against Heidenheim

Deniz Undav scored in the eighth minute of stoppage time to snatch a point for Stuttgart, pulling the home side level in a pulsating 3-3 Bundesliga draw with visiting Heidenheim on Sunday.

The match swung wildly late, Heidenheim's Tim Kleindienst scoring two goals in two minutes before Undav's last-gasp equaliser.

Goals from Serhou Guirassy, his 23rd in 21 league games, and Angelo Stiller, had third-placed Stuttgart in the driver's seat, but a 62nd-minute howler of an own goal from goalkeeper Alex Nuebel gave Heidenheim hope.

Nuebel caught and then dropped a tame Kleindienst header, before allowing it to trickle between his legs and into the goal.

Kleindienst, who scored the crucial goal in the ninth minute of stoppage time which took Heidenheim up to the first division at the end of last season, scored in the 84th and 85th minutes to steal the lead.

Kleindienst tapped in a Jan-Niklas Beste cross to level the scores and then headed in while unmarked in the box.

The visitors were reduced to 10 men after six added minutes, Nikola Dovedan seeing straight red for a rough tackle on Maximilian Mittelstaedt.

Undav, who celebrated a first-ever call-up to the Germany squad earlier in March, salvaged a point for the home side slamming a low drive into the bottom corner with the last kick of the game.

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"If you're leading 2-0 at home, you can't give a game away like that," lamented Mittelstaedt on DAZN.

Goalscorer Stiller, who is having a breakout season in the Stuttgart midfield, echoed the comments, saying: "We can't be satisfied with the draw. We can't let that happen."

Stuttgart missed a chance to close the gap with second-placed Bayern to one point, but still sit seven points clear of