World Cup: Can England Cope With Mexico?
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Can England handle the heat and altitude at Azteca Stadium?
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At the FIFA World Cup 2026, the Football Daily Podcast with Rick Edwards. Hello and welcome to the Football Daily with me, Rick Edwards, and Dion Dublin.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Dion. I'm very well, thank you. Good. So the scores today, Morocco and France both through to the quarterfinals. Morocco beat Canada 3-0, France beat Paraguay 1-0. We'll talk about those games shortly. It's the 4th of July here and there is a kind of frisson, isn't there?
Yes, there is.
There's a lot of people wearing various kind of stars and stripes, get up.
Yes, USA shouts everywhere.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't got involved. But I have got an invite to a 4th of July party.
Have you?
Yeah.
Let's go.
I don't know if British people are massively welcome. Well, then let's not go. I think it might be let's not go. I'm sort of worried if we're going to turn up and then get attacked.
We're big lads though, we're big lads.
It's true, it's true. I'll be looking to run to the car, I think, more than anything else. How have you been finding Santa Monica?
I like Santa Monica. It's quite different to LA. It is completely. I like Santa. It's quite chilled here. There's a lot to do. There's lots of cafes and bars and restaurants. The walks are amazing as well. The beach is literally 100 yards in that direction. So yeah, very, very different.
Have you been to Muscle Beach yet?
You'd fit in all right at Muscle Beach. I'm not sure about that to be honest. I went to Muscle Beach and I sort of went, oh, let me just walk past. There's some big lads there, by the way. The top has gone, it's back down again.
They've all got a six pack, I've got a one pack. I like to call it the keg.
The family pack, yeah, exactly.
Now, no laughing matter, England are playing later today. Yes, yes. 1am in the UK, if it doesn't change again. The game is live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Five Live. The web is on everything, basically. You'll definitely be able to consume it. Well, let's bring in Sammy Mockbell, Senior Football Correspondent for BBC Sport. Sammy, are you at the Azteca right now?
I am in situ at the Azteca. This is a bucket list moment for me, guys. I repeat, a bucket list moment. Can't believe I'm here. And ever since the draw was made, I was like, hopefully the results go the way that I can get here and cross it off the bucket list. And here we are. So, yeah, I'm chuffed. How's your breathing? How's the air? That's all anyone cares about, isn't it? Yeah, so altitude training. Yeah, no, so on the way to training today, so we had to watch England train. We had to walk down this very steep hill, which is fine, walking down the steep hill. It's coming back up the other way where you begin to have a problem. And yeah, look, I haven't, I'm sure you've seen on social media sort of the streams of journalists going for runs and writing pieces.
I'm not brave enough to do that. But yeah, by all accounts, by all accounts, the air is considerably thinner. Have you ever played in those conditions, Dionne?
I have, yeah. I actually played in the Giants stadium against Sampdoria once. I was playing for Villa in this pre-season tour. You have to choose. Messi will be fine because he doesn't run anywhere. So Messi will be fine if he ever plays in that stadium. But yeah, it's just choosing when to use your energy. So just being smart. about it yeah it's been smart but you know it's also the lactic acid in your legs and your arms and your body just seems to get tighter and stronger so lots of water lots of the gels and all that kind of stuff and choosing don't be running about because if you sprinting about all over the place you will hit it it'll hit you without a doubt
How intense?
I guess you watched the training session, Sammy. How intense was that? We only get to watch the first 15 to 20 minutes of it. So part of that is the warm-up and then they get the ball out partly. So in terms of reading into the session and how hard they have worked after the cameras went away, we don't know. But from the moments that we saw, it was very light.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Can England handle the heat and altitude at Azteca Stadium?
0:00–8:06
2
What insights does Sami Mokbel provide from the England camp?
8:06–11:29
3
How does altitude affect player performance during the World Cup?
11:29–16:29
4
What strategies will England use against Mexico's aggressive fans?
16:29–22:39
5
How has England's past performance in knockout games influenced their strategy?
22:39–30:09
6
What are the potential impacts of player fatigue on England's performance?
30:09–35:30
7
How does Morocco plan to upset France in the quarterfinals?
35:30–38:04
Speakers
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