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The sun beamed down on Saturday afternoon in the Westfalenstadion on Matchday 31, and the shadows remind us that we are truly in the business end of what has been a complex season. The sun shining down and its stark mid-day shadows stand in deep, poetic contrast to the gray, punishing, spiritually combative dregs of four months ago. The winter break, normally annoying, was welcomed in and perhaps even begged to start early. Every match carried with it trepidation. A match without confidence was considered a success if no one vital in the lineup acquired an injury.