The uptrend continues: Schalke 04 has prevailed in the league of the champions against Lokomotiv Moscow. With that, Benedikt Höwedes went home empty-handed with his ex-team.

FC Schalke 04 have celebrated his first win of the season in the Champions League. In Russia, in representative Lokomotive Moscow the marine blues succeeded the team of coach Domenico Tedesco with a later 1-0 win. Weston McKennie headed in for a corner in the 88th minute. Schalke are now at least temporarily in first place of Group D, in the evening, the club could not still be displaced by Porto or Galatasaray from the top position, for now.

Benedikt Höwedes ran for Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga 240 times, while the 2014 World Cup champion is still a record player with 35 former Champions League games. In the jersey of Lokomotiv Moscow, he joined now for the first time against his former colleagues. In his first noteworthy action Höwedes saw the yellow card after a lost running duel with Breel Embolo in the 19th minute.

The first big chance of the game was played by Moscow. After an unsuccessful attempt to clear Salif Sané, Dimitri Barinowv was free to shoot, Ralf Fährmann parried and was lucky that the second attempt from close range was blocked by Daniel Caligiuri in the 27th minute. The Schalke looked after all idealess and could be glad that it remained for the time being at 0:0.

Even after the restart, the Champions League semi-finalist of 2011 disappointed - until the 85th minute. Mark Uth awarded the best Schalke chance when he shot past a shot from 18 meters just a few meters out from the goal. Only three minutes later, S04 then rewarded for a performance increase in the course of the second half. McKennie scored the team from Gelsenkrichen with his premier goal in the league of the champions in the 88th minute.

On October 24th will FC Schalke 04 play against Galatasaray in the Türk Telekom Arena in Istanbul and the return match will be in Gelsenkirchen on 6th November. This two upcoming matches will decide who will clear the group stage and who will be dropped out...