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Apr 18, 2015 at 2.30pm UK
 
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3-0

Mkhitaryan (48'), Aubameyang (55'), Kagawa (80')
FT(HT: 0-0)

Jurgen Klopp imagines "brutally emotional" Borussia Dortmund goodbye

Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp says that he is bracing himself for a "brutally emotional" farewell to the club following a successful seven-year tenure.

Jurgen Klopp has revealed that he is preparing himself for a "brutially emotional" farewell to the Borussia Dortmund fans at the end of the season.

Dortmund thumped SC Paderborn 3-0 at home on Saturday in the first game since the popular coach announced that he would be ending his seven-year spell at Signal Iduna Park.

The home crowd lauded the 47-year-old, who won two Bundesliga titles in 2011 and 2012, toward the end of the encounter, and Klopp says that he will need a "thick shield" to protect him from his emotions after his final game in charge.

"I think it's really good that the crowd today was full. They [the fans] behaved properly [supporting the team as normal], because it today was not about me, but about the team having a good game," he told reporters.

"Of course it's nice when you are celebrated by the fans in the 88th minute, but we have some games left, so I try myself, as a person, not to embrace it, because I know that there will be a game at the end, where it will be brutally emotional.

"I will need a thick shield."

Klopp has been linked with replacing under-fire Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini in the summer.

Second-half goals from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Shinji Kagawa sealed the win for eighth-placed Dortmund.

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Dortmund's Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa and Paderborn's midfielder Marvin Bakalorz vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match Borussia Dortmund vs SC Paderborn in Dortmund, western Germany, on April 18, 2015
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