The former World Champion Benedikt Höwedes has a curious reason for his own goal in the Champions League match at Bayer Leverkusen. "I should not have been allowed to play with pavement," said the Lokomotive Moscow center-back, who suffered a large laceration over his left eye five days earlier. Höwedes had scored in the 2-1 victory of the Russian Cup winner in Leverkusen the interim 1: 1 by own goal (25).
"The Doc advised me to play with a mask, which I declined because it does not look good, but it was not any better with the patch," said the 31-year-old, and said, "The Maybe it sounds like an excuse, but maybe I did not really see it that way at the time, overall it was a bit unhappy, but also a bit awkward, but since we won, I can laugh over it at the end. "
In the second half Höwedes tore the plaster off his head and played without protection of the stitched with several stitches wound. "I felt so much more comfortable with that," said long-time Schalke: "It's a bit torn up again and needs to be sewn in. The head also hurt a bit, but I'd rather do that than maybe make a second own goal . " In the coming games Höwedes wants to play "in any case" without plaster.