Mexico squad highlights national team's long-term striker crisis

Mexican duo Hirving Lozano and Erick Gutierrez combined to score three of PSV's seven goals as the Eredivisie leaders dismantled ADO Den Haag, 7-0. Mexico fans can be cautiously optimistic about the future when looking over the squad set to face Costa Rica (Oct. 11) and Chile (Oct. 16). Blend the 25 names in with the players left out from the previous squad in September and throw the Europe-based players from Russia 2018 -- like Hector Moreno, Hector Herrera and Javier Hernandez -- into the mix and you can make the argument that Mexico is well set for the next World Cup cycle. But there is one glaring hole that threatens to derail some of that...

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