Borussia Dortmund have “unfinished business” with Bayer Leverkusen ahead of the sides’ Bundesliga meeting on Sunday.

BVB have now won five matches in a row after a ideal start to their Bundesliga campaign has them top of the table alongside Bayern München, and Hummels thinks that the late victor against the Russians means that they are recovering their winning mentality.

“In terms of our play, however, we have definitely put in considerably better performances than that this season”.

“We believe that he can be very valuable to us”. Nevertheless, the hosts had to wait until the dying minutes of the game before Dortmund’s summer signing Park Joo Ho headed home Ginter’s cross at the far post to seal his side a late 2-1 victory in front of 55,200 spectators on home soil.

He said: “We might have been missing a certain swiftness of action tonight, and our level of alertness in challenges for the ball might not have been quite optimal, but that is under no circumstances down to the fact that we were playing on a Thursday night rather than in the Champions League”. Germany’s Federation Internationale de Football Association World Cup™ victor Mario Gotze is set for another afternoon on Bayern’s bench having been left out of the starting line-up in Greece, only to score as a substitute.

The win sees Tuchel’s side top Group C after the first game while Krasnodar start with no points in last place. “It’s great for the Bundesliga, but it’s a bit unsettling to have such an aggressive pursuer”. “That’s because achieving that is really hard “. “I can’t imagine it’s been much fun for Dortmund to have been behind us in the last three seasons so of course, they’re going to want to attack again”, said Muller.

Marcel Schmelzer says Borussia Dortmund are hungry to exact revenge over rivals Bayer Leverkusen when they meet at Signal Iduna Park this weekend.