1. FC Köln deserved their victory in the 81.Westderby by stepping up a gear in the second half. The Cathedral City team had 10:5 shots on goal in the second half against a declining Westphalia team. BVB fully deserved to be 1-0 up at half-time and had 5:1 shots on goal and 72 per cent of possession, in addition they also won more challenges (57%).

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Sokratis scored to make it 0:1. Ilkay Gündogan is the first to congratulate him (l.).

Squandered the game: Borussia Dortmund lost for the first time after more than 13 months after taking the lead 1-0. The last time this happened in the Bundesliga was over a year ago on the 1.November 2014 when they lost 1-2 in Munich against Bayern.

Strong record: Even though Black Yellow lost their third game of the season, they still had their best first half of the season in five years with 38 points (43 points back then).

Change in trend: BVB has not won against FC since they were promoted back to the Bundesliga in 2014 (one draw, two defeats); before that there had been eight wins in a row against the team from the Rhine.

As always: Sokratis has now scored exactly one goal in every one of his last five seasons. The last three have been for Dortmund and have all been headers from corner kicks.

Away from home-Park: Joo-Ho Park was in the starting line-up for the third time, and for the third time this has been away from home – previously it was for the wins against Mainz (2-0) and Bremen (3-1). The South Korean has only been in the starting line-up in home games in the UEFA Europa League (against Krasnodar and PAOK)

Back again: Jonas Hofmann played his first game in the league again right from the start for three months. The last time he was in the starting line-up was on match day 6 for the 1-1 draw against Hoffenheim (23.September 2015), after that the only time he started a game was in the UEFA Europa League.

Premier: Five days before Christmas there was a new starting line-up for BVB that had never played together before.

Home win: After five games at home without a win, Köln won their first game in front of their home fans again.

Home goal: FC scored their first goals at home after four games in a row without scoring in front of their own fans for three months (previously when they drew Ingolstadt 1-1 at the end of September). (br)