Best free-kick routine? Borussia Dortmund's genius goal in 2018

Borussia Dortmund have played host to some incredibly talented footballers in recent years.

From Robert Lewandowski to Mats Hummels and Erling Haaland to Marco Reus, the German giants have always been able to field top-class players on their team sheet over the last decade.

As such, no matter how much Dortmund’s form might have undulated between Bundesliga titles and fights for Champions League qualification, you could always rely on them to produce incredible moments.

Besides, there are only so many games you can go without delivering something to get Signal Iduna Park on its feet when you have world-beating operators taking to the field.

And while that can obviously manifest itself in the form of stunning goals and jaw-dropping passes, it’s arguably in the intelligent moments of play that fans get the most satisfaction.

Well, at least footballing hipsters like ourselves do because there’s nothing better than those little glimpses under the bonnet where top-class players put their footballing IQ on show for all to see.

And one way in which the ballers at Dortmund put their ingenuity and cleverness on display in recent years was when they produced one of the most inventive free-kick routines that we’ve ever seen.

You know, the type of outside-of-the-box thinking for outside-of-the-box set pieces? Ok, we’ll see ourselves out, but the moral of the story is that Dortmund really did outdo themselves in December 2018.

That’s because they carved out a goal for Paco Alcácer during a Bundesliga clash against Werder Bremen with a free-kick routine perfectly orchestrated by Raphaël Guerreiro and Marco Reus.

In a rehearsed moment of tricky that still amuses us to this day, Guerreiro made it look as though he was going to take the