Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund inexplicably surrendered a three-goal lead in the second half to draw 3-3 against Hoffenheim on Saturday after completely dominating for more than an hour.

The league leaders have only themselves to blame after Jadon Sancho, in the absence of Dortmund captain Marco Reus, took control of Dortmund’s game in the first half, firing in for the lead and slicing through the hapless Hoffenheim defence at will.

The England international then set up Mario Gotze for Dortmund’s second goal before combining with Gotze to set up Raphael Guerreiro for an easy tap-in in the 66th.

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 Jadon Sancho shone in the absence of Marco Reus for league leaders Dortmund

The 18-year-old scored the opening goal with a driving run and calm finish

He also set up Mario Gotze and Raphael Guerreiro to give Dortmund a comfortable 3-0 lead

Sancho almost got a second goal in the 75th but his low shot hit the post and bounced clear before the hosts stepped off the gas, allowing Ishak Belfodil to cut the deficit in the 75th.

Pavel Kaderabek then rose over his marker to head in with seven minutes left and set up a nervous finale.

The visitors’ memorable comeback was complete when Belfodil headed in a free kick in the 87th.

But Hoffenheim pulled themselves back into the contest with three goals in the final 15 minutes

Ishak Belfodil scored twice and Pavel Kaderabek helped snatch a point for the visitors

Dortmund move eight points clear but Bayern Munich could cut their lead to five on Saturday

Lucien Favre’s side face Tottenham in the last-16 of the Champions League on Wednesday

With champions Bayern Munich in second place on 42 points and in action against Schalke 04 later on Saturday, Dortmund move temporarily eight points clear.

Borussia Monchengladbach dropped to third place on goal difference behind Bayern after their 3-0 loss to Hertha Berlin. 

Lucien Favre’s side meanwhile will have to pick themselves up ahead of their Champions League last-16 clash with Tottenham at Wembley on Wednesday night.  

Dwain Chambers false started on his return from retirement at the British Indoor Championships on Saturday before indicating his comeback would extend to the outdoor season.

The 40-year-old, who hung up his spikes in August 2017, breezed through the 60m heats before jumping the gun in the semi-final.

It was a wasted opportunity for Chambers, whose path to a podium finish had been cleared by the early exits of Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, and unconvincing form from 2014 world indoor champion Richard Kilty. 

Dwain Chambers was disqualified for a false start as he made his return to athletics

The top-three was ultimately filled by the little-known trio of Dominic Ashwell, 19, ahead of Adam Thomas and Jeremiah Azu. 

The awkwardness for British Athletics will revolve around their desperate lack of 60m options when they name their team next Sunday for March’s European Indoor Championships.

As it stands only eighth-placed Ojie Edoburun, Aikines-Aryeetey and Mitchell-Blake tick the two required boxes of having turned up to these Championships and hitting the qualifying time since the start of the 2018 season.

Given Britain have three spots and two might go to runners who didn’t make their national finals, it is something of a concern, heightened by the fact the nation has delivered a men’s 60m medal in each of the past 16 editions of the European Indoors.

Chambers said: ‘I feel like a fossil coming back into the sport again and being resurrected’

With Zharnel Hughes, Reece Prescod, Adam Gemili and CJ Ujah all staying away this weekend, it opened the possibility for Chambers to snatch a shock place on the team. Despite his failure to do so, he hinted he will continue competing. 

He said: ‘I have to redeem myself now. We’ll see what happens for the rest of the season. I didn’t want to walk out of there with my tail between my legs.

‘I feel like a fossil that’s been resurrected by coming back into the sport again. That part’s going to take me a little bit of getting used to.’ Meanwhile, Britain’s leading sprinter, Dina Asher-Smith, who wasn’t competing, criticised the promotion of the event by British Athletics.

Chambers returned to the sport after recording some surprisingly quick times during training

She tweeted: ‘I’m so disappointed with the presentation of this. You’d easily miss that trials is happening. No clue what the qualifying marks are, not a clue what they’re trying to qualify for, no idea who’s there, who’s not, head-to-heads.

‘Then they blame empty seats on athletes not coming to trials (which is an issue of course)… but also don’t make a smart and targeted effort to engage fans and people who want to watch. Earlier I had to scroll so far down their twitter feed to find out if/where it was streamed.’

Laura Muir breezed to the 3,000m title and Asher Philip won her sixth women’s 60m crown.