They are up against a host nation in their capital city, playing at altitude without the time to adapt.
There were four hours of frantic wrangling with Fifa when they didn’t even know when kick-off would be, and then they got a hostile reception from the noisy locals as they arrived.
Safe to say, England’s preparations for their World Cup last-16 clash against Mexico have hardly been the smoothest.
Overnight, the weather forecasts worsened, and there is now a 90 per cent chance of thunderstorms around the time of kick-off – tomorrow at 1am British time.
With Fifa calling a 30-minute delay when there
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