Dortmund hope to keep Lewandowski

The seats here are yellow and plastic, lifted from the stadium and built into a small "stand". On the wall is a screen where a video plays on a loop. It's not all black and white, in fact most of it is black and yellow, but it needs updating now. "It always shows the same films from many years ago," grinned the coach, JŸrgen Klopp."I hope they will soon show a film of these goals from [Robert] Lewandowski."

This was a historic night, marked by four astonishing goals from the Polish striker, and the Dortmund manager was not going to let anyone ruin it. Success may come tinged with sadness, the growing realisation that the better his players perform the more likely they are to depart, but Klopp refused to think about that. Besides, he claimed that Lewandowski was staying. That is far from certain but these have been days in which the manager has sought to put off a worrying future and focus instead on a brilliant present.