That match is Saturday in Rostov-on-Don, a port city about 600 miles south of Moscow. A win and Mexico’s passage to the knockout round of a seventh consecutive World Cup is virtually assured. A loss and Mexico will go into its final group-stage game with Sweden next week facing elimination.
“They have the mentality to go to the final. I’m sure of this,” Hermosillo, in Russia as part of the Telemundo broadcast team, said in Spanish. “[But] you can’t think about the final if you don’t win your other games first.