When was the last time we spent so much mental energy attempting to decipher the result of a TopSpiel? The weekly Saturday early evening showcase in the Bundesliga is often the biggest and best of the weekend and a game that intrigues and satisfies, but this latest episode of Borussia Dortmund versus RB Leipzig caught us all on the hop.
The wind, after all, seemed to be blowing one way. BVB had suffered three consecutive defeats with varying degrees of misery – the eventual 5-2 loss at Real Madrid in which they had played pretty well for most of the game, the 2-1 at Augsburg in which they certainly didn’t, and the extra-time 1-0 loss at Wolfsburg in midweek which ended their interest in the DfB Pokal. There was little to suggest that Dortmund were the team to bring Leipzig’s 19-game unbeaten run in the Bundesliga to a juddering halt. Yet Nuri Sahin’s side did just that and convincingly so, with style and substance. It was a result that required a thorough explanation.
