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During the week is in the Champions League season 2018/19 the 2nd Round of the group stage. FC Schalke 04 have to compete in the RZD Arena at Lokomotiv Moscow on Wednesday evening. On Saturday Schalke finished with a 1-0 home win against Mainz finally the horror start in the league with zero points from the first five games to end. For S04, the match in Moscow is the first Champions League away game in three and a half years. The Royal Blues started the new season with a 1-1 draw at home to FC Porto. Lok Moscow, meanwhile, had lost 3-0 at Galatasaray Istanbul to open the match.
Both teams meet for the first time in European Cup. The record of Lok Moscow against German teams makes little hope: In six games, there were five defeats and only one victory. All three home games against teams from the Bundesliga were lost. Schalke played only two times against a team from Russia and was able to win both games. The betting base recommends Lokomotiv Moscow vs. Champions League match. Schalke a hint on “win Schalke” at lucrative odds.
Locomotive Moscow:
After the very mediocre start to the season, coach Yuri Semin is still on the verge in Moscow. Only on Matchday 4 was the reigning Russian champions the first victory of the season in the league. There are currently nine games in the Premier League. Lokomotive is sixth with 12 points, but only three points ahead of the first relegation place. The gap to leaders Zenit St. Petersburg is already ten points. With the 2-0 home win against Akhmat Grozny, the coach could get some air again. In the preseason Coach Semin had led the Red and White Greens to the third championship in Russia after 2002 and 2004. In addition, the club had come in the Europa League to the knockout stages and then failed there at the eventual winner Atletico Madrid. This year, the reigning champions from Russia take part in the group stage of the premier class for the fourth time. At the last participation in the season 2003/04 the Russians came after all to the round of the last sixteen. With Jefferson Farfan and Benedikt Höwedes play two former Schalke at Lok Moscow. However, apart from Manuel Fernandes, Aleksey Miranchuk and Grzegorz Krychowiak, few players from Moscow have been in good shape in recent weeks. In the storm, the Portuguese should start Eder, who had scored the winner in extra time against France at the 2016 European Championships. Although the striker was able to convince only very rarely, but always met last week in the Cup at second division Baltika. In this game, Fedor Smolov injured and now falls out for several weeks. Maciej Rybus and Aleksandr Kolomeytsev are also missing due to injury. When Lokomotiv Moscow against Schalke does not speak much for the tip on the home win, since the form at Lok Moscow is not good.
Schalke:
On Matchday 6 should at home against Mainz 05 finally the zero points start the Schalke in this Bundesliga season to end. But the team of coach Tedesco began to get nervous and nervous. On the other hand, the hosts were reasonably safe and took advantage of an early mistake in the Mainz defense to lead. The 1-0 gave Royal Blue more security. But again and again the sluggish structure was disturbed by the Nullfünfern. S04 left Mainz a large part of the initiative, but left hardly clear opportunities. In the end, the first victory of the season was brought over to the harmless Rheinhessen with a lot of trembling over the finish line. Schalke now hopes that the first three-way in the league, the knot has finally burst this season.
The insecurity among the miners had been very large after the five defeats to start. The greater was the relief after the narrow victory. An important piece of the puzzle was certainly the fact that the Tedesco team was able to take the lead for the first time this season, with 11 minutes too early. Since you could not refill the 2: 0, it remained a dithering game to the end. Another problem of the Schalke was certainly the offensive. In the first six league games S04 hit only three times, which is the worst value in the first division. The squires currently lack players like Skrzybski, Riether, Oczipka and Stambouli.