beIN SPORTS MATCH CENTRE: APOEL 1-1 Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund failed to kickstart its UEFA Champions League campaign as it had to settle for a 1-1 draw at APOEL that leaves it bottom of Group H.

Having lost to Tottenham Hotspur and Real Madrid, Peter Bosz's side needed to make up ground in the battle to qualify for the knockout stages.

However, a club famed for its "Yellow Wall" struggled to break down opponents wearing the same-coloured shirts in Cyprus and remains six points behind Madrid and Spurs.

It needed a towering header from Sokratis Papastathopoulos just to pick up a point on its travels, the defender sparing the blushes of his goalkeeper Roman Burki, who gifted APOEL the lead.

The Switzerland international's careless pass presented Lorenzo Ebecilio with possession and although Burki blocked the tame shot that followed, Mickael Pote seized on the rebound to coolly break the deadlock in the 62nd minute and score APOEL's first UEFA Champions League goal since September 2014.

Although Papastathopoulos levelled five minutes later, a draw for Dortmund served another blow after it saw its unbeaten start to the Bundesliga season ended by RB Leipzig at the weekend.

Despite losing goalkeeper Boy Waterman and forward Igor de Camargo to shoulder injuries in the first half, APOEL frustrated a Dortmund side that struggled for fluency in attack despite dominating possession.

Andriy Yarmolenko and Shinji Kagawa were both guilty of blazing over in promising positions, albeit they could be excused for questioning the state of a pitch best described as uneven.

An ailing De Camargo departed proceedings in the 30th minute and was soon joined in the home changing room by team-mate Waterman, who landed awkwardly after coming off his line to punch clear a cross from Marcel Schmelzer.

Substitute goalkeeper Raul Gudino, on loan from Porto, was thrust into action for his APOEL debut, yet the rookie was rarely tested before his opposite number at the other end of the field had a moment to forget.

When Burki compounded his initial error of gifting possession to Ebecilio by fumbling the resulting shot, Pote could not believe his luck. The Benin international waltzed around the stranded keeper and rolled the ball into an empty net, giving the hosts an unlikely lead.

APOEL's hopes of a first win in the competition since March 2012 suffered a setback when Dortmund engineered an equaliser from a short corner.

Mario Gotze worked a two-on-one with Schmelzer before sending over a looping cross to the back post that Sokratis nodded home, much to Burki's relief.

Gudino denied Dortmund a second goal in as many minutes when his deft touch on a fierce Kagawa drive was enough to deflect the ball against crossbar and the visitors were denied by the woodwork again deep into stoppage-time.

Christian Pulisic's mazy run and cross appeared to have set up Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to grab an undeserved winner, only for the combination of APOEL's replacement goalkeeper and the right post to deny Dortmund at the death.