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Robert Lewandowski and Mats Hummels: The Road to Bayern Munich Via Dortmund

When Bayern Munich line up at Borussia Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park for Saturday's Klassiker in the Bundesliga, the camera will linger for just a little longer on two of the visitors' starting XI as it pans down the red tracksuit-clad superstars in the players' tunnel.

Mats Hummels, once of Bayern, then of Dortmund, and now back in Munich, and Robert Lewandowski, who arrived in the Ruhr all but unknown outside his native Poland just six years ago, have more than a special affinity to the club they will attempt to defeat on Saturday evening.