Mexico equalized less than 10 minutes later with a close-range diving header by Chicharito after Portugal defender Raphael Guerreiro failed to clear a ball crossed into the area.
While the VAR appeared to come to the correct decision, Santos was frustrated that this came only after the officials had looked at an earlier phase of play where Pepe was offside.
Cristiano Ronaldo's initial shot hit the crossbar then Pepe "scored" from the rebound in the 22nd minute. I'm not running away from that, and I see myself lifting the trophy with my teammates, but there is a long road ahead, and we'll go from game to game.
The equaliser arrived just before the halftime break for Mexico, as Vela picked out Hernandez, who sent a powerful header into the bottom corner.
All in all I think Portugal winning is going to be the final result and as a result of this, I think this is also the best bet to make since we are getting a pretty good price on this wager. "It's good that we get to play it right now, in our first game".
European champions Portugal, captained by the relentless Cristiano Ronaldo, will look to build on their success in France last summer and prove that they are also contenders for the Tournament of Champions and next year's World Cup in Russian Federation.
Substitute Cedric Soares looked like being the European champions' hero with his 86th-minute deflected shot, but Moreno's header from a corner spoiled the Southampton defender's celebration of his first global goal.
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The result leaves hosts Russian Federation top of Group A, following their 2-0 victory over New Zealand yesterday.
With that, the result now gives both of the teams one point, a fair result. But a late header from Moreno secured the 2-2 draw in injury time, giving a precious point to Mexico.
Mexico: Ochoa - Salcedo (Araujo, 67), D. Reyes, Moreno, Layun Herrera, John.
Silva, who has just moved from FC Porto to AC Milan in a transfer worth almost 40 million euros, has scored seven goals in eight games since his debut with the national team in a friendly against Gibraltar in September.
Ronaldo has not spoken to the media in Kazan and his staff said it would not comment about the recent issues involving the player.
Portugal have scored 22 goals in six World Cup qualifiers so the advice is to punt the 3/1 with bet365 on there being over 3.5 goals in the game.
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