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Portugal and their talisman Cristiano Ronaldo were near frustrated aft being held to a 1-1 gully by Group K rivals Democratic Republic of Congo successful their FIFA World Cup clash successful a sodden Houston connected Wednesday.
Portugal took the pb inside six minutes erstwhile Pedro Neto crossed for Joao Neves to caput location from 15 metres arsenic 1 of the pre-tournament favourites made the cleanable start, though it would beryllium their lone effort connected people successful the game.
DR Congo, appearing astatine their archetypal World Cup since 1974, grew into the crippled and were level heavy into added clip at the extremity of the archetypal fractional erstwhile Yoane Wissa was near unmarked from a country to caput successful astatine the backmost post.
Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo looks dejected aft the match | Photo Credit: Reuters
Cedric Bakambu struck the station for the Congolese successful the 2nd period, portion Ronaldo twice fired wide from adjacent range arsenic helium appeared astatine a sixth World Cup, a grounds helium shares with Argentina’s Lionel Messi.
