Borussia Dortmund on the rise thanks to their superheroes

Jürgen Klopp described Dortmund’s 3-0 derby win over Schalke as the ‘perfect game’, as a fourth straight win made the tangible relegation fears of winter feel like a distant memory

• Dortmund delight after fourth straight win

It took 77 nervous minutes of frenetic, clumsy fumbling to get it in, as well as bit of masked role play and submissive assistance. But in the end, Borussia Dortmund came good on Saturday afternoon. The scenes of collective Black and Yellow relief at the final whistle made it impossible not to recall Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s pre-match revelation that “derby wins are almost like an orgasm”. He was being deadly “serious”, the Gabon striker had told Sport Bild in midweek: “It’s a similar feeling”.

Off-the-pitch pleasures are distributed a little more evenly, one should hope, but the SignalIdunaPark had indeed witnessed sheer ecstasy and successful reproduction, of a kind.

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