Thomas Tuchel believes England can create a home away from home in Kansas City this summer to achieve their dream of World Cup glory.

England come into FIFA’s flagship tournament as one of the favourites, and have been placed in Group L alongside Panama, Ghana and Croatia.

The biggest ever edition of the World Cup takes place across the United States, Canada and Mexico, presenting a unique challenge for all the nations involved.

The Three Lions’ base for the European Championships two years ago in Germany was near Weimar at the heart of the country, and they are taking a similar approach here.

England travelled just over 3,500 miles en route to the final in Berlin, a figure that will be well beaten in the group stage, with trips to Dallas, Boston and New Jersey to come.

Asked if England planned to stay in Kansas City throughout the tournament rather than move around, Tuchel said: “We’re trying to.

“We’re trying to because, basically, that was the choice, to have a home, to have a home base, to have a bed that you’re used to sleeping in, to have a bed with a good mattress, to have a hotel with privacy, a small hotel.

“Not a 500, 800-bed hotel where we see each other, maybe just in the lifts or on the floor between breakfast and meeting, air-conditioning is on and you cannot open the windows.

“There are a lot of these hotels and I think that makes a difference, so we chose a hotel where you can open the window, we chose a hotel where it’s an intimate and small place.

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“I think once we get used to that place, it makes sense to go back. I have feedback from the players that they like that we start late, that they like that it then becomes condensed, so you have no chance to get bored once you hopefully go through the tournament.

“I had the feeling that a day more could be quite useful, so, yeah, those are some decisions that had to be made, and maybe the headline is ‘We try to be as often in Kansas as possible.’”

England fly to Florida at the beginning of June for a pre-tournament camp, where they have warm-up matches against New Zealand and Costa Rica.

They must wait until 17 June to play their first group game against Croatia in Arlington, which is the latest possible start date.

Their schedule stands to become more congested after the second group tie against Ghana in Massachusetts on June 23.

“I have feedback from the players that they like when we start late, that they like that it then becomes condensed,” Tuchel added.

“So you have no chance to get bored once you go through the tournament. Hopefully, the longer we will get, the more demanding it will become.

“And it will become very condensed. There will be a lot of flights. There will be a lot of time at airports. There will be a lot of time together.

“We have to get our chemistry right. This is the most important.”