England’s initial base when arriving in the United States was, coincidentally, Florida.<\/p>\n
Thomas Tuchel and his team spent 10 days in the area, playing warm-up games against New Zealand<\/a> in Tampa and Costa Rica<\/a> in Orlando.<\/p>\n The Three Lions then moved to their tournament facility in Kansas, where daily air temperatures are about 32-34C (90-93F).<\/p>\n That should help England cope with the heat.<\/p>\n Dr Lee Taylor from Loughborough University – a leading expert in elite athlete performance and the challenges of heat and altitude – told BBC Sport acclimatisation was crucial.<\/p>\n “That is the gold-standard method to protect players’ health and performance,” said Taylor.<\/p>\n “They’ve been getting those exposures into the players pretty consistently as they had two hot bases.<\/p>\n “So we’re fairly certain those players are acclimated. They haven’t been able to really test that in a game environment, but we’re not too concerned because we know they’ve acquired those physiological adaptations.”<\/p>\n Norway played their two warm-up matches against Sweden and Morocco in the cooler climes of Oslo and New Jersey respectively.<\/p>\n They are based in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they experiencing similar temperatures to the England squad.<\/p>\n “Norway have played four pretty warm games, and the one in New Jersey was particularly hot,” Taylor said.<\/p>\n “I’d probably rather have the scenario that England have evolved through, based on the fatigue the Norway players have acquired.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s initial base when arriving in the United States was, coincidentally, Florida. Thomas Tuchel and his team spent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-793046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}