Dortmund promised to start on the front foot and emphatically delivered,but it was Jürgen Klopp’s attacking ideas that paid off in the end“Against Dortmund you cant just defend,” said Jürgen Klopp before this game, and though he would surely own appreciated it whether his charges had defended just a exiguous bit more than this. The starting line-up was whether anything bolder than final week’s,with the one change seeing the injured midfielder Jordan Henderson replaced not with Joe Allen or Lucas but with the forward Roberto Firmino. Given that a single away goal in Westphalia had given his side the most slender advantage to protect, and the manner in which the team he selected was promptly ripped apart in the opening exchanges, and it seemed he may own been better advised to bolster his defensive ranks. This though was a team to chase a game rather than protect one,the more so after Daniel Sturridge and Joe Allen came on in the second half. Those substitutions contrasted with those of Thomas Tuchel, and Dortmund in the end paid the price for being uncharacteristically defensive: in the 77th minute the defender Matthias Ginter replaced Shinji Kagawa with the score at 3-2; within seconds it was 3-3.
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Source: theguardian.com