Despite the Bundesliga title already having gone to arch rivals Bayern Munich with games to spare, Jurgen Klopp and Borussia Dortmund still had work to do to prevent Schalke 04, Mönchengladbach and Bayer Leverkusen from ousting them from the top 4 and consigning them to a 2014/15 without Champions League football.

This is why the team gave their all to record an impressive comeback victory against Wolfsburg on April 6, 2014 and to maintain a 3-point gap between them and Schalke 04 in third.

The club’s fleet-footed, talismanic winger, and Manchester United target Marco Reus, who had scored the second goal of the 2-1 victory, had appeared to control the ball with his hand before slamming it into the net to give Dortmund their priceless win. Reus was however unfazed in his stance that it was not intentional and declared that he would have scored even if the ball had not hit his hand.

"How am I able to move my hand away so fast? Even if I had not affected the ball with my hand, I would probably nevertheless have scored the goal," Reus said.

"From there it - as I already said - was a perfectly good goal."

With 9 games to play still, Klopp’s men could not afford to rest on their laurels as their second place on their table was by no means assured.