Roman Burki was fantastic between the sticks, hails Lucien Favre

During the post-match conference, coach Lucien Favre praised shot-stopper Roman Burki for his excellent outing between the sticks. The Swiss international made seven brilliant saves for Dortmund which includes two saves to brilliantly deny Milan Skoda and Abdulla Yusuf Helal to secure all three points. Favre further added that while the goalkeeper was exceptional against Slavia Praha, the win was thanks to a team effort.

“Everyone, without a single exception, played a part in this win. It was a crazy match. Constant chances. We had to win this game – it's what we were aiming for and we did it, but it was difficult. Slavia were very tough as expected. They had drawn their previous games, we hadn't. Roman Burki was unbelievable, he was fantastic. But just to reiterate: we achieved this victory together. We created a lot of scoring opportunities and should've been winning more than 1-0. We were too open at certain points. It's a win but we need to continue to work hard,” said Favre to the Goal.

“The whole team felt a huge sense of relief after the final whistle. Hardly anything had filtered through to us. It was only when the spectators were celebrating shortly before the end that we looked at the screen. That gave us an additional boost at that point. We're a team, we battled well. It was clear that I could be in for a busy evening. But that's what I'm there for – perhaps today I might even say that I did fairly well,” said the former Freiburg shotstopper.