Aguero and Balotelli rescue Man City at the last minute

Serigo Aguero and Mario Balotelli contributed greatly to Manchester City's lucky 1-1 draw against Dortmund at the Etihad in the second round of the Champions League group stage. Aguero won the penalty and Balotelli converted it.

This draw helps the reigning Premier League champions get their first points in this prestigious arena this season to keep their hopes of passing the group stage alive.

Mario Balotelli brought 1 point for Manchester City. (Source: Getty Images)

Meanwhile, this is an extremely unfortunate result for Dortmund when victory seemed to be in hand. With this result, Dortmund temporarily ranked 2nd in Group D with 4 points, 2 points less than Real Madrid. The Spanish Royal team had an impressive 4-1 victory over Ajax in the match at the same time.

With home advantage, Man City started the game enthusiastically with consecutive situations threatening Dortmund's goal. However, when strikers like Aguero or Dzeko missed, the home team let the away team gradually regain control of the game and play tit for tat.

Many chances appeared at both ends of the goal but could not beat goalkeeper Joe Hart of Man City and Weidenfeller of Dortmund. Notably, two finishing situations of Mario Goetze could not beat Joe Hart and the crossbar.

In the second half, the reigning Bundesliga champions were somewhat more dominant than the home team, especially in their quick counter-attacks. However, it wasn't until the 61st minute that Marco Reus, taking advantage of a mistake from Jack Rodwell's unlucky pass, quickly swooped down and defeated goalkeeper Joe Hart.

Unexpectedly conceding a goal, Man City rushed forward but left a lot of space in their own half and Dortmund had very clear opportunities to increase the score. However, Reus, Lewandowski and then Goetze could not bring the second goal for the away team.

The victory seemed to belong to the German representative, but in the 88th minute, the referee pointed to the penalty spot after Subotic let the ball touch his hand in the penalty area from Aguero's hook. On the 11m mark, Mario Balotelli was very calm and made no mistake to bring a valuable point for Man City.

Starting lineup

Man City:Joe Hart - Zabaleta, Nastasic, Kompany, Clichy - Garcia, Yaya Toure, Silva - Nasri, Aguero, Dzeko.

Dortmund:Weidenfeller - Subotic, Hummels, Piszczek, Schmelzer - Bender, Gungoan, Goetze, Reus - Blaszczykowski, Lewandowski.

Goal:Balotelli (90) - Reus (61)./.

(According to Vietnam+) - DT