Mexico With Portugal to the Confederations Cup Semifinal 2017

Football news - Mexico national team managed to ensure themselves qualify for the 2017 Confederations Cup semifinal. Dealing with the Russian national team, the Mexican camp managed to come out as the winner after conquering the host with a score of 2-1.

Mexico's winning goal was scored by Nestor Araujo and Hirving Lozano while the hosts were only able to retaliate through Alexsandr Samedov's goal.

With a ticket to the semifinals as a bet, the match at Kazan Arena is going on fiercely. Both teams are equally launching an attack in high tempo to achieve victory.

Russian host managed to excel first in 25 minutes. Utilizing feedback from Erokhin, Alexandr Samedov successfully menceploskan ball into the goalkeeper Mexico. Score changed to 1-0 for home advantage.

Left behind one goal to make the Mexican national team to increase the tempo of attack mererka. Consequently 5 minutes later they successfully equalized thanks to Nestor Araujo's header. 1-1 score lasted until halftime.

Returning from the locker room the two teams did not lower the tempo of the attack. As a result in minute 52 Mexico national team back to add their goals after blunder Akinfeev successfully exploited by Hirving Lozano to menceploskan ball into the Russian goalkeeper.

The desire of the Russian national team to catch up more weight after Yuri Zirkhov got his second yellow card in 68 minutes. 2-1 score lasted until the referee blew the whistle marks the end of the game.

Thanks to this victory, Mexico national team managed to rank second in Group A standings, so they certainly qualify for the semi-final phase. They will face Group B winners in the semi-final, between Germany and Chile playing tomorrow.