How do England prepare for playing at altitude against Mexico?

This article is part of The Athletic’s World Cup performance series, in which Alan McCall draws on more than 20 years of experience across elite football to explain the science behind the challenges teams are facing this summer and the strategies they will use to deal with them. Here he examines Mexico’s altitude advantage, what it has produced in this tournament — and what their round-of-16 opponents England can learn from science and those who have faced altitude before. Altitude is not new to the World Cup — but England are about to face one of its toughest tests. Mexico…