Luca Waldschmidt came off the bench to score an 81st-minute equaliser and rescue a point for Freiburg in a thrilling 3-3 Bundesliga draw with local rivals Stuttgart on Sunday.

With no goals and no points from their opening two games, Stuttgart were under growing pressure ahead of the derby clash.

Their nightmare start looked set to continue when Jerome Gondorf headed Freiburg in front within a minute of kick-off.

With the home side in control, Nils Petersen missed a chance to double the lead on 36 minutes, and paid the price less than ten minutes later.

Having failed to muster a single shot on goal in the first 44 minutes, Stuttgart suddenly found the net just before half-time, Emiliano Insua smashing a 20-yard screamer past Alexander Schwolow.

Mario Gomez prodded Stuttgart in front three minutes after the break, but Freiburg hit back almost immediately, Gondorf curling a free-kick into the bottom corner to pick up his second goal.

Not to be outdone, Gomez promptly scored a second himself, nodding Insua's cross into the far corner to restore Stuttgart's lead.

"I would happily trade both my goals for three points." Gomez told Sky. "We showed heart today and showed again that we are a good team."

Waldschmidt hit the bar with 19 minutes to play, before smashing in his equaliser ten minutes later. Pascal Stenzel was given a second yellow card shortly afterwards, but Freiburg held on with ten men to secure a point.

Earlier in the day, Virgil Misidjan celebrated a perfect debut for Nuremberg, as he scored a dramatic stoppage-time equaliser to secure a 1-1 draw away to Werder Bremen.

Bremen have not lost in four competitive games this season, while Florian Kohfeldt remains unbeaten in 15 home games as head coach, in what is a new club record. Yet Misidjan's late strike left a bitter taste on what had been another successful afternoon.

"We wanted to take our chances better in the second half, but we ended up completely losing control," Bremen midfielder Maximilian Eggestein told Sky. "We sat too deep, and we ran out of energy at the end of the game."

Eggestein gave Bremen the lead in style on 26 minutes, rifling the ball into the top corner from the edge of the box.

At half-time, Bremen fans held up a series of banners voicing opposition to far-right politics, including statements such as "refugees welcome" and "no football for fascists".

Back on the field, Eggestein could have added a second on 55 minutes, but skewed his shot wide after finding space on the right flank.

Nuremberg found the net against the run of play just before the hour mark, but Ondrej Petrak's toe-poked equaliser was disallowed -- correctly, but bizarrely -- for offside.

Mikael Ishak, who had sent in the cross for Petrak, was in an offside position when the ball ricocheted off the back of a team-mate and into his path.

All looked lost for Nuremberg as the clock ticked down in added time, before Misidjan found space on the left and bundled the ball past Jiri Pavlenka at the near post.