Having made a blistering start to the new season, leaders Borussia Dortmund are already looking like serious title contenders, and will be relying on their free-flowing attacking football to try to break Bayern Munich's iron grip on the Bundesliga crown.
If there was anyone left in Germany who had lingering doubts about Dortmund's title credentials, they were swept away on Saturday evening as Peter Bosz's men delivered a devastating attacking display against Borussia Mönchengladbach. A hat-trick for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, another brace for new boy Maximilian Philipp and even a first Bundesliga goal for the returning Julian Weigl - the Foals were powerless to resist as they crumbled to a chastening 6-1 defeat at the Signal Iduna Park.
Traditionally, the "English Week" - when Bundesliga sides play an extra midweek game between their usual weekend outings - is a period in which the big guns can be caught out, especially when coaches are forced to rest key players. Try telling that to Dortmund. In the space of seven days, they clobbered Cologne, hammered Hamburg and massacred Mönchengladbach. Fourteen goals scored, one conceded, and nine points in the bag, thank you very much.
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