Feyenoord pulled off a stunning comeback to earn a precious point in the Champions League as Manchester City self-destructed in the last 15 minutes.

The English champions appeared to have taken total control of the match when Erling Haaland slammed in his second goal of the night and his 44th in the competition after eight minutes of the second half.

Even when Anis Hadj-Moussa pounced on a sloppy back-pass by Josko Gvardiol in the 74th minute and slotted the ball into an empty net after rounding Ederson, it looked to be no more than a late consolation.

But seven minutes later Feyenoord struck again as another defensive mix-up let Jordan Lotomba in on the right-hand side. His close-range shot rebounded off the post and hit the chest of Santiago Gimenez, back in the team after a two-month absence, for one of the easiest goals of the Mexican’s career.

Five minutes Igor Paixão sprinted clear from a long pass, nodded the ball over the head of the advancing Ederson and had the awareness to spoon up a cross that David Hancko headed into the empty net.

Feyenoord had fought hard in the first half to contain City, but their resistance was broken just before the break when Quinten Timber was judged to have clipped Haarland in the penalty area, and the Norwegian made no mistake from the spot.

Ilkay Gündogan scored a second five minutes with a deflected shot from a corner before Haaland’s second appeared to have settled the match, but Gvardiol’s blunder handed Feyenoord a lifeline that the Rotterdammers gleefully accepted.

Timber told Ziggo after the match: “At 3-1 we had a feeling something could happen, and then we made it 3-2 and 3-3. That says a lot about the team, I think.”

The result leaves Feyenoord on seven points after five matches, in 20th place out of the 32 teams. A win in their next match at home to Sparta Prague on December 11 would probably be enough to secure them a place in the play-off round for the teams ranked 9th to 24th in the final table.