Dortmund keep alive UCL chance

Borussia Dortmund powered back from a goal down to crush hosts Bayer Leverkusen 4-2 in the Bundesliga on Sunday, keeping alive their chance of a top-four finish going into the final matchday next week. Dortmund have now won six of their last seven league games to climb up from 11th to fifth and are just a point behind fourth-placed Freiburg.

The Ruhr valley club, last year's Champions League finalists, have 54 points going into next week's season finale, with the top four teams earning automatic qualification for next season's Champions League.

Yet they found themselves a goal down in the 31st minute with Leverkusen's Jeremie Frimpong giving the hosts a deserved lead in coach Xabi Alonso's final home match. The Spaniard announced on Friday that he will leave at the end of the season, having joined in October 2022 and led them to the domestic double last season without defeat while also reaching the Europa League final. A half-dozen saves by Dortmund keeper Gregor Kobel kept them in the game in the first half but after Leverkusen's goal the visitors never looked back.

Dortmund levelled two minutes later with Julian Brandt slotting in from a Karim Adeyemi cutback.

The visitors scored again in the 43rd after winning possession in Leverkusen's half and Julian Ryerson completing the move with a low finish from the right.

Leverkusen's lethargic play saw them lose possession once more in the 73rd with Marcel Sabitzer feeding lightning-quick Adeyemi to make it 3-1. Before the hosts had time to regroup they conceded another goal through Serhou Guirassy, who bagged his 20th league goal of the season in the 77th.

Jonas Hofmann manage to score in stoppage time for Leverkusen. Dortmund host relegated Holstein Kiel next week. Bayern Munich on Saturday celebrated the league title they had secured a week earlier, beating Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-0.Forest's UCL hit by draw with Leicester

Nottingham Forest's hopes of securing a Champions League spot took a huge hit when they were held to a 2-2 draw by relegated Leicester City on Sunday as Nuno Espirito Santo's side fell to seventh in the Premier League standings.

The result leaves Forest a point behind fifth-placed Chelsea with two games left and although they secured European football for the first time in 30 years, the draw felt like a defeat with their Champions League ambitions no longer in their own hands.

Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis was clearly not pleased as he came on to the pitch to remonstrate and speak with the Portuguese manager before walking away, muttering under his breath. Forest have now gone three league games without a win and goal-scorer Morgan Gibbs-White said their recent run of form was frustrating.

"These past three or four games have just not been good enough," he told Sky Sports. "We played well on the ball today but we can't concede two goals like that today.

"We've secured Europe, that's great for the fans, it's great for the club. But we want more.

The fans' and our expectations, five or six games ago, were the Champions League. But we've got to be positive."

Forest started slowly as Leicester took the lead in the 16th minute when Bilal El Khannouss fired from range to force a save from keeper Matz Sels, but defender Conor Coady was on hand to knock in the rebound for his first league goal of the season.

Their lead lasted only nine minutes until Forest won a free kick on the right flank and Anthony Elanga whipped the ball into the box for an unmarked Gibbs-White to score with a towering header.

Forest started the second half on the front foot and, minutes after Nicolas Dominguez had a diving header saved, Gibbs-White sent in another cross to the far post where Chris Wood connected with a header to make it 2-1, his 20th goal of the season.

Forest got away with what could have been a costly error when Ola Aina let a ball bounce behind him that allowed Kasey McAteer to go for a header, but Sels was alert to the danger and snuffed out the chance to give the home side a reprieve.