Sebastien Haller leaves Borussia Dortmund on brink of ending Bayern Munich’s 10-year reign

At just before 9pm on Saturday, Joao Cancelo did not look remotely like someone who had just earned another Premier League winner’s medal.

The Portuguese full-back appeared to be on the brink of crying. If they were shed, the tears would have been ones of anguish rather than joy.

Wearing the new – mostly white – shirt of Bayern Munich, he stood on the edge of the area staring vacantly into the teeming mass of ultras behind the goal at Allianz Arena.

The fans were not for shifting, cheering their players to the echo, despite the fact it was well after the final whistle of a game in which Bayern had thrown away a lead to lose 3-1 to RB Leipzig. Neither was Cancelo.

At precisely the same time over in England, Arsenal were putting the cap on their own Premier League demise by losing to Nottingham Forest. It meant Manchester City, in absentia, were crowned champions again.

Cancelo is due one of the 40 winner’s medal the Premier League handed out to City, having played 17 times for them this season before he was exiled on loan to Munich midway through the campaign.

Joao Cancelo looks dejected after Bayern Munich's loss to RB Leipzig. Getty Images

And yet he was distraught at the turn of events in the job in which he is now most invested. Manchester City could not have been further from his mind.

Bayern’s loss to Leipzig confirmed Champions League football for the victors. More notably, however, it left Germany’s one great superpower on the brink of passing up their Bundesliga crown for the first time in over a decade.

At that point, they still held a one-point lead at the top of the table, but if Borussia Dortmund could take a win at nearby Augsburg a day later, they would assume first place with a game to play.

It was never