Dortmund’s Marco Reus: ‘How do you stop Erling Haaland? Good question’

Borussia Dortmund’s Marco Reus, pictured in February, says he does not ‘want to be seen as the face of the club or the star of the team’. Photograph: Alexandre Simões/Borussia Dortmund/Getty Images

He is Borussia Dortmund’s longest-serving player, having returned to the club of his youth from Borussia Mönchengladbach a decade ago. In that time he has scored more than 150 goals – putting him on the verge of becoming BVB’s leading scorer of the Bundesliga era – and he has captained the club since 2018.

He is in fine form going into Wednesday’s Champions League group-stage showdown with Manchester City at the Etihad, too, having scored three times this season. Yet Marco Reus is reluctant to be seen as some kind of figurehead for Dortmund, an emblem of the club he grew up supporting.