Costa Rica captain Bryan Ruiz has warned his international colleagues they will face a far stronger England team in Leeds than the one they met at the 2014 World Cup.
Los Ticos, who defeated Northern Ireland 3-0 in San Jose on Sunday, will provide the opposition for the Three Lions in their final game before they depart for Russia.
It is a repeat of a World Cup group contest in Belo Horizonte four years ago when England, already eliminated from the competition, lost to a Costa Rican side that advanced to the quarter-finals.
Only three of the England players that featured that day – Gary Cahill, Phil Jones and Raheem Sterling – are in Gareth Southgate’s current group and Ruiz expects a tougher assignment at Elland Road.
‘I think they are much better than they were four years ago,’ Ruiz told Press Association Sport.