Dortmund’s historic capitulation brings Terzic honeymoon to an end

“Even as a child, you can’t imagine a sequence of play that spectacular,” said Ole Werner. The 34-year-old Werder Bremen manager is the Bundesliga’s youngest head coach but anyone would have celebrated as wildly on the pitch after this tumultuous ending at Signal Iduna Park, which left Borussia Dortmund stunned. “I have no idea what happened there,” said their gobsmacked captain Marco Reus, who has seen a lot of improbable twists in his decade at the club.

This was simply without precedent in the Bundesliga’s history. Dortmund had led 2-0 in the 89th minute, and were heading for a third win out of three in the nascent league season – albeit with efficiency rather than any particular style. Then came the drama, with such an East Midlands hue it could have been directed by Shane Meadows – Once Upon a Time in Westfalen, if you will. Firstly Lee Buchanan (born in Mansfield, and who left Derby County for Werder in the summer) smacked a delicious left-footed volley into the top corner, which looked like a pretty but scant consolation for considerable Bremen efforts.

Werner’s relentlessly positive promoted side had different ideas. In the third minute of stoppage time, Niklas Schmidt stooped to head an equaliser, feverishly received by the travelling staff and fans. There was more. Oliver Burke – born in Kirkcaldy but brought up in Melton Mowbray, a former Nottingham Forest prodigy who also arrived this summer – was played into the inside right channel by Mitchell Weiser and rifled in an angled shot in front of the Yellow Wall to bring the house down.

After last week’s late, late goal via the same combination to salvage a point against Stuttgart, Burke’s second in two games went one better. Werder had completed a comeback