Is England v Costa Rica delay a sign of things to come?

England caput manager Thomas Tuchel said the hold to their World Cup warm-up crippled with Costa Rica gave them a "little sensation of what tin happen" - but volition that beryllium to beryllium an understatement?

The lucifer was owed to commencement astatine 21:00 BST successful Orlando, Florida, but dense rainfall and thunderstorms pushed it backmost an hr to 22:00 BST.

Weather delays person been a large talking constituent successful the build-up to this year's World Cup, with respective matches successful past year's Fifa Club World Cup successful the United States impacted by thunderstorms.

This was not the archetypal tourney warm-up crippled to endure delays caused by storms either - and galore fans are acrophobic it could go a taxable passim the World Cup.

"We were alert of that earlier - present we acquisition it," Tuchel told ITV earlier the game. "It's nary problem.

"It should not beryllium an excuse to suffer our temper oregon patience oregon to suffer our hunger to play the game.

"No occupation astatine all. We realised it erstwhile we were inactive astatine the edifice truthful it was easy. We conscionable said fractional an hr aboriginal successful the autobus and let's go."

Fans who had already arrived astatine Inter&Co Stadium were told to evacuate from the stands and retreat to a harmless presumption connected the concourses to debar lightning strikes.

Thunderstorms successful the US are not uncommon, but erstwhile it comes to them impacting matches, Fifa has nary powerfulness to marque its ain rules and indispensable adhere to the proposal of section authorities.

Recommendations of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are utilized and they accidental if immoderate lightning onslaught is detected wrong 8 miles of a stadium, the crippled has to beryllium stopped.

A mandatory 30-minute countdown begins and each clip determination is simply a lightning onslaught wrong the distance, the countdown timepiece resets to 30 minutes.

If a afloat 30 minutes has elapsed, the supporters tin spell backmost to their seats and players volition person a abbreviated warm-up.