Borussia Dortmund are back on the right track in the Bundesliga. They moved from eighth to fourth after the 3-1 win over SC Freiburg and are now only one point behind league leaders Bayer Leverkusen. But they wasted little time in celebrating this victory.

Straight after Saturday’s match, the Black and Yellows already had their eyes on the Champions League opener against Arsenal FC on Tuesday (kick-off: 2045 CET). “The wins in Augsburg and against Freiburg were a must. It was more important that we have boosted our confidence for Tuesday’s game against Arsenal,” said, for example, Sebastian Kehl. Shinji Kagawa, BVB’s match-winner against Freiburg, was also keen to focus on the next game: “We need to shift gears quickly and start preparing for Arsenal. We will have to do better against them.”

“Arsenal will be a bigger challenge than Freiburg“

The visitors from London are likely to play in the same colours as Freiburg did on Saturday but it’s unlikely that Arsenal will play as defensively and look so blunt in attack as Sportclub did. Last weekend, Arsene Wenger’s men managed to hold Premier League holders Manchester City to a 2-2 draw at home, with the Germans Per Mertesacker and Mesut Özil in the starting line-up, while Lukas Podolski spent the 90 minutes on the bench. After four games in the Premier League, the Gunners are undefeated and currently sit in seventh place on six points.

“We are definitively on the up now. But Arsenal will surely be a bigger  challenge than Freiburg,” said Sebastian Kehl. Since 2002, BVB have met Arsenal six times in the Champions League, winning two drawing one and losing three.

Kehl knows how it feels like to beat the Gunners at home

But they know how to beat the London outfit. Last season, Borussia picked up a 2-1 win away to Arsenal, and were then unlucky to lose the second game 1-0 at home. In the group stages of the 2011/12 campaign, the Black and Yellows outplayed the visitors for large parts of the match but failed to turn their dominance into goals. A late Ivan Perisic strike got them at least a draw. At the Emirates, Robin van Persie fired the Gunners into a 2-0 lead before Kagawa pulled one back for an injury-stricken BVB side who lost Götze and Bender at half-time.

The only home win against Arsenal dates back to 30 October 2002 when BVB had to come from behind to win 2-1, with Tomas Rosicky scoring the winner from the spot. Sebastian Kehl, who played in that match, said, “It’s been a while since our last home win over Arsenal. So we have some making up to do.”

Jack Wilshere looks to put a marker down against BVB

Arsenal’s Jack Wilshire declared himself confident ahead of Tuesday match.  Speaking to the club’s official website, he said, “It's a tough game [against Dortmund] and we go there first this time, so the hardest match of the group will be the first one. We can put a marker down in that game.”