Gladbach took the lead with the first shot on goal of the match. However, the 0-1 score line wrought by the guests at the beginning of the encounter only briefly flattered to deceive, being as they were without hope of victory with only three shots on goal compared to BVB's 15, and a paltry 38 percent ball possession across the rest of the game. In a furiously contested match, three of the first four shots on goal resulted in goals. All the facts on the game follow here.

Goal getter: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the first person this season to score more than two goals in four separate games and already has 15 goals to his name so far this campaign – as many as he had last season after 13 rounds.

Matchwinner I: Ousmane Dembélé scored for the third time this season, his first goal in front of a home crowd, and also demonstrated his bear like strength, winning as he did 80% of his tackles. The Frenchmen played the penultimate pass for all three of the other goals.

Matchwinner II: Marco Reus set up three goals in one game for the first time in his career (1-1, 3-1, 4-1).

Offensively strong: Lukasz Piszczek scored his third goal of the season. He last scored three in a season in 2013/14. Four of his last seven goals were scored with his head.

Turned the game: BVB won for the first time this season a game in which they had been behind, and turned a game around for the 09th time in the Bundesliga against VfL Borussia. Against no other club have BVB gone on to win more often after having been 0-1 down.

Mister 100 Percent: Matthias Ginter won every tackle across the 90 minutes.

Back again: Nuri Sahin played in the Bundesliga again after an absence of almost seven months – he last played in the 0-1 victory over Frankfurt on match day 33 of the previous season. He had already got some playing time under his belt in the cup against Union Berlin and in the UEFA Champions League against Warsaw.

Nice to see: Borussia Dortmund have won four of the last five encounters against Borussia Mönchengladbach.